Norfolk
DETAILS
Fri, February 20, 2015
Norfolk, CT
Show: 8 PM
Ticket INFO
Member Presale: 12/16/14 06 AM
Public Onsale: 12/18/14 06:01 AM
Fri, February 20, 2015
Norfolk, CT
Show: 8 PM
Member Presale: 12/16/14 06 AM
Public Onsale: 12/18/14 06:01 AM
Award-winning blues master, Blues Hall Of Fame member and Alligator recording artist Joe Louis Walker is among the greatest bluesmen of his generation. He is known worldwide as one of the genre’s top musical trailblazers — a mesmerizing guitarist and soul-testifying vocalist. On his dynamic 2014 release Hornet’s Nest, for which he just received a Blues Award nomination for Best Contemporary Album, Walker’s music is equal parts rock ‘n’ roll fire and blistering, passionate blues. Hornet’s Nest was recorded in Nashville and produced by songwriter/ drummer Tom Hambridge (producer of James Cotton’ Grammy-nominated Cotton Mouth Man, Buddy Guy’s Grammy-winning CDs Skin Deep and Living Proof, as well as albums for Susan Tedeschi, George Thorogood and Walker’s previous CD, Hellfire). Hornet’s Nest — featuring 12 songs, including nine new originals — blends Walker’s boundless energy and his myriad influences into a contemporary blues tour-de-force. His always-inventive guitar playing is matched note-for-note by his fervent vocals. From menacing, hard rocking electric blues to cool Memphis funk to R&B rave-ups to Sunday morning gospel, Walker’s blues-fierce and untamed, adventurous and fun — continue to define the genre.