Great Guitars is a music album released by blues guitarist Joe Louis Walker in 1997. Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression A guitarist is a Musician who plays the Guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres Joe Louis Walker is an American Blues Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter and producer. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar It was issued on the Polygram label as catalogue number 537141. PolyGram was the name from 1972 of the Major label recording company started by Philips as a holding company for its music interests in 1945
Many of the songs on the album are duets with other artists. The album received mostly favourable reviews upon its release.
Musicians
- Joe Louis Walker: vocals, guitar, slide guitar, percussion, footstomping, arrangements
- Tom Rose: guitar, backing vocals
- Mike Eppley: organ, piano and backing vocals
- Joe Thomas: bass, backing vocals
- Curtis Nutall: drums
Guest Musicians
- Bonnie Raitt: vocals and slide guitar on "Low Down Dirty Blues"
- Ike Turner: guitar, keyboards, bass and tambourine on "First Degree"
- Buddy Guy: guitar on "Every Girl I See"
- Matt Murphy: guitar on "Nighttime"
- Taj Mahal: national steel guitar, ratchet guitar and footstomps on "In God's Hands"
- Robert Lockwood, Jr.: 12-string electric guitar on "High Blood Pressure"
- Otis Grand: guitar and lap-steel guitar on "Hop On It"
- Scotty Moore: guitar
- Little Charlie Baty: guitar
- Steve Cropper: guitar on "Mile-Hi Club"
- Clarence Gatemouth Brown: guitar on "Mile-Hi Club"
- Otis Rush; vocals and guitar on "Fix Our Love"
- Charles "D. Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American Blues Singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, California Ike Wister Turner ( November 5 1931 &ndash December 12 2007) was an American Musician, Bandleader, George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is a five-time Grammy Award-winning American Blues and rock Guitarist Matt "Guitar" Murphy (born 29 December 1927) is an American Blues Guitarist. Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942) who goes by the Stage name Taj Mahal, is an internationally recognized Blues musician Robert Lockwood Jr, also known as Robert Junior Lockwood, ( March 27 1915 – November 21 2006) was an American Blues Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III (born December 27, 1931 near Gadsden Tennessee) is a legendary American Guitarist and Steve "The Colonel" Cropper (born October 21, 1941) is an American guitarist songwriter and producer Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown ( April 18 1924 — September 10 2005) was a Louisiana and Texan American Otis Rush (born April 29, 1934 in Philadelphia Mississippi) is a blues Musician, Singer and Guitarist. C. " Carnes: guitar
- Wallace Coleman: harmonica
- Steve Diamond: piano
- Richard Smith: bass
- Steve Gomes; bass
- Rob Stupka; drums
- Jimmy "Gator" Hoare
- The Tower Of Power Horns:
- Emilio Castillo: saxophone
- Bill Churchville: horn arrangements, trumpet
- Barry Danielian: horn arrangements, trumpet
- Stephen "Doc" Kupka: baritone saxophone
- John Scarpulla: saxophone
- The Johnny Nocturne Horns:
- John Firmin: tenor sax
- Rob Sudduth: baritone sax
- George Spencer: trumpet
- Marty Wehner: horn arrangements, trombone
Produced by Joe Louis Walker, Ike Turner, Steve Cropper, John Snyder. Tower of Power is a 10-member horn-based soul band from Oakland, California. Emilio "Mimi" Castillo (born Sep 24 1950 Detroit, Michigan) is an American Saxophone player and Composer, best Stephen "Doc" Kupka (aka "The Funky Doctor" (born 25 Mar c The LA Pama Cyclones are a professional roller hockey team The Cyclones have won 4 NARCh Pro Championships at 2006 WinterNationals 2006 Finals 2007 WinterNationals and 2008 George Spencer can refer to the following people George Spencer 4th Duke of Marlborough (1739-1817 George Spencer 2nd Earl Spencer Actor John Snyder played the gas station man in the 1979 film The Warriors. Executive producer: Jean-Philippe Allard.
Engineered by Scotty Moore, David Luke, Howard Willing, Jay Newland, Jim Albert, Ken Kessie, Mark Hewitt, Mike Creswell, Paul Haumann, Stephen Hart, Steve Spaperri Assistant Engineers: Ben Conrad, John Brant.
Mastered by Chris Bellman.
Track listing
- 1. Low Down Dirty Blues (6:57) (Walker)
- 2. First Degree (4:22) (Turner, Walker)
- 3. Mile-Hi Club (6:08) (Walker)
- 4. Fix Our Love (6:05) (Walker)
- 5. Every Girl I See (6:01) (Dixon, Murphy)
- 6. Cold And Evil Night (5:23) (Walker)
- 7. Hop On It (2:24) (Grand, Walker)
- 8. Nighttime (5:49) (Walker)
- 9. Sugar (6:21) (Walker)
- 10. In God's Hands (4:28) (Walker)
- 11. High Blood Pressure (4:39) (Walker)
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