Although Joice Walton is known as a Jazz and Blues artist to fans in the U.S. and Europe, her music really defies categorization. On her acclaimed debut CD, 1994's Downsville Girl, and even more so on the forthcoming follow-up album called Texas Heat, the San Jose, California-based vocalist puts together blues, soul, jazz, rock and pop strains of American vernacular music in a seamless, multihued fabric. Like her friend (the late) Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, who contributes his guitar and viola prowess to two tracks of her new album, Walton prefers to simply call what she does "American Music".
Released in the Fall of 2012, Texas Heat was primarily cut in Nashville with a crack studio rhythm session engineered by Jamie Whiting, augmented by guitarist Tony Baker and pianist Walter Bankovitch, both from Walton’s working band.
Production/collaboration was performed by long-time friend and musical muse Jack Fischer. Additional recording was done in New Orleans, Sausalito, Berkeley and San Francisco, California. "With that clean Nashville sound, I came back to the S.F. Bay Area and sprinkled some good soul feelings on top," Walton explains.
Walton was born and raised on a farm in Downsville, Texas, a quiet country town outside Waco with a population of 50, most of them her kin folk. She grew up singing Gospel hymns in the Mt. Olive Baptist Church choir and Amazing Grace down by the Brazos River. The sixth of ten brothers and sister's she began singing at age seven, and soon formed a trio with twin cousins Loretta and Floretta, modeled on Diana Ross and the Supremes, finding opportunities to get on stage at assisted living homes and high school pep rallies.
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Released in the Fall of 2012, Texas Heat was primarily cut in Nashville with a crack studio rhythm session engineered by Jamie Whiting, augmented by guitarist Tony Baker and pianist Walter Bankovitch, both from Walton’s working band.
Production/collaboration was performed by long-time friend and musical muse Jack Fischer. Additional recording was done in New Orleans, Sausalito, Berkeley and San Francisco, California. "With that clean Nashville sound, I came back to the S.F. Bay Area and sprinkled some good soul feelings on top," Walton explains.
Walton was born and raised on a farm in Downsville, Texas, a quiet country town outside Waco with a population of 50, most of them her kin folk. She grew up singing Gospel hymns in the Mt. Olive Baptist Church choir and Amazing Grace down by the Brazos River. The sixth of ten brothers and sister's she began singing at age seven, and soon formed a trio with twin cousins Loretta and Floretta, modeled on Diana Ross and the Supremes, finding opportunities to get on stage at assisted living homes and high school pep rallies.
Although Joice Walton is known as a Jazz and Blues artist to fans in the U.S. and Europe, her music really defies categorization. On her acclaimed debut CD, 1994's Downsville Girl, and even more so on the forthcoming follow-up album called Texas Heat, the San Jose, California-based vocalist puts together blues, soul, jazz, rock and pop strains of American vernacular music in a seamless, multihued fabric. Like her friend (the late) Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, who contributes his guitar and viola prowess to two tracks of her new album, Walton prefers to simply call what she does "American Music".
Released in the Fall of 2012, Texas Heat was primarily cut in Nashville with a crack studio rhythm session engineered by Jamie Whiting, augmented by guitarist Tony Baker and pianist Walter Bankovitch, both from Walton’s working band.
Production/collaboration was performed by long-time friend and musical muse Jack Fischer. Additional recording was done in New Orleans, Sausalito, Berkeley and San Francisco, California. "With that clean Nashville sound, I came back to the S.F. Bay Area and sprinkled some good soul feelings on top," Walton explains.
Walton was born and raised on a farm in Downsville, Texas, a quiet country town outside Waco with a population of 50, most of them her kin folk. She grew up singing Gospel hymns in the Mt. Olive Baptist Church choir and Amazing Grace down by the Brazos River. The sixth of ten brothers and sister's she began singing at age seven, and soon formed a trio with twin cousins Loretta and Floretta, modeled on Diana Ross and the Supremes, finding opportunities to get on stage at assisted living homes and high school pep rallies.
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Released in the Fall of 2012, Texas Heat was primarily cut in Nashville with a crack studio rhythm session engineered by Jamie Whiting, augmented by guitarist Tony Baker and pianist Walter Bankovitch, both from Walton’s working band.
Production/collaboration was performed by long-time friend and musical muse Jack Fischer. Additional recording was done in New Orleans, Sausalito, Berkeley and San Francisco, California. "With that clean Nashville sound, I came back to the S.F. Bay Area and sprinkled some good soul feelings on top," Walton explains.
Walton was born and raised on a farm in Downsville, Texas, a quiet country town outside Waco with a population of 50, most of them her kin folk. She grew up singing Gospel hymns in the Mt. Olive Baptist Church choir and Amazing Grace down by the Brazos River. The sixth of ten brothers and sister's she began singing at age seven, and soon formed a trio with twin cousins Loretta and Floretta, modeled on Diana Ross and the Supremes, finding opportunities to get on stage at assisted living homes and high school pep rallies.
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