San Francisco’s Fillmore District of the 1960s is known worldwide as the birthplace of psychedelic rock. But it was also a hotbed of modern electric blues, and it was the place where one of the genre’s top musical trailblazers, Joe Louis Walker, was born, raised and schooled. The award-winning guitar slinger, deeply soulful vocalist and gifted songwriter has been releasing groundbreaking music since 1986, but his career goes all the way back to the mid-1960s. As a 16-year-old, he was the house guitarist at San Francisco’s famed musical playground, The Matrix, where he played with or opened shows for everyone from Lightnin’ Hopkins (who once threw him off the stage) to Jimi Hendrix to Thelonious Monk. These ear-opening surroundings explain the ease with which Walker blends blues, rock, gospel, jazz and country, making it seem as if the walls between the styles never existed in the first place. The New York Times raves, “Walker is a singer with a Cadillac of a voice. He delivers no-nonsense, gutsy blues. His guitar solos are fast, wiry and incisive, moaning with bluesy despair.” According to Living B¬¬lues, he is “one of today’s modern musical masters.” Rolling Stone simply calls him “ferocious.”
New Years Eve Dinner Menu: http://www.opentable.com/rest_profile_menu.aspx?rid=2474&tab=1
*first show is a dinner required show*
*$30 minimum on food/ drinks during 2nd show*
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New Years Eve Dinner Menu: http://www.opentable.com/rest_profile_menu.aspx?rid=2474&tab=1
*first show is a dinner required show*
*$30 minimum on food/ drinks during 2nd show*
San Francisco’s Fillmore District of the 1960s is known worldwide as the birthplace of psychedelic rock. But it was also a hotbed of modern electric blues, and it was the place where one of the genre’s top musical trailblazers, Joe Louis Walker, was born, raised and schooled. The award-winning guitar slinger, deeply soulful vocalist and gifted songwriter has been releasing groundbreaking music since 1986, but his career goes all the way back to the mid-1960s. As a 16-year-old, he was the house guitarist at San Francisco’s famed musical playground, The Matrix, where he played with or opened shows for everyone from Lightnin’ Hopkins (who once threw him off the stage) to Jimi Hendrix to Thelonious Monk. These ear-opening surroundings explain the ease with which Walker blends blues, rock, gospel, jazz and country, making it seem as if the walls between the styles never existed in the first place. The New York Times raves, “Walker is a singer with a Cadillac of a voice. He delivers no-nonsense, gutsy blues. His guitar solos are fast, wiry and incisive, moaning with bluesy despair.” According to Living B¬¬lues, he is “one of today’s modern musical masters.” Rolling Stone simply calls him “ferocious.”
New Years Eve Dinner Menu: http://www.opentable.com/rest_profile_menu.aspx?rid=2474&tab=1
*first show is a dinner required show*
*$30 minimum on food/ drinks during 2nd show*
read more
New Years Eve Dinner Menu: http://www.opentable.com/rest_profile_menu.aspx?rid=2474&tab=1
*first show is a dinner required show*
*$30 minimum on food/ drinks during 2nd show*
show less
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