Joe Louis Walker will be performing live on Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour on May 20th. Woodsongs is more than just a radio show. WoodSongs is also the world first multi-camera, weekly series broadcast on the Internet. The show tapes at the Lyric Theatre in downtown Lexington, KY. Tickets are still availablehttp://www.woodsongs.com/tickets.php. Once the show is shot, it will be archived at the website. We’ll forward add’l info as soon as we have it.

Joe Louis Walker - Hellfire

Joe Louis Walker To Play Kennedy Center This Sunday!

Joe Louis Walker to perform at the Kennedy Center as part of the "Women, Music and Diplomacy" All-Star Gala Concert honoring former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright!  Legendary bluesman and master guitarist Joe Louis Walker will perform in Washington, DC at The Kennedy Center on Sunday, September 23as part of the "Women, Music And Diplomacy" concert hosted by the Thelonious Monk Institute Of Jazz. The gala event will honor former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and will feature Walker along with other artists including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, George Duke, Patti Austin, and will also include special guests Aretha Franklin and Chris Botti.

Walker, who last played the Kennedy Center in 1995 when B.B. King received his Kennedy Center honors, is thrilled to be included, saying, "I am very excited to be part of this historic event. It is an honor and privilege to be back at the Kennedy Center, and I look forward to being a part of a positive musical presentation that accentuates the very influential music that America has given to the world."

 

Recent Nat’l Syndicated Programs:

• NPRs World Cafe (4/11)
• WXPN Free At Noon Concert:  A fantastic performance on World Café (2/17)

Recent Feature:  Honolulu Pulse, St. Louis Post-Dispatch,  Thunder Bay News Watch , Stanhope Daily Record, Chicago Tribune, Chattanooga Free Press, Time For The Blues , Houston Press, Living Blues, Erie Times-News , BluesWax, Buffalo News , Oakland Press, Pasadena Star-News, North County Times , San Jose Mercury News, Danbury New Times, South Coast Today, Wall Street Journal, New Haven Register

 

Recent Reviews:  All Music, Blurt, Los Angeles Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ,Nippertown, Woonsocket Patch , CKUA Radio, Washington Post, FAME, Jambands.com, Pasadena Weekly, About.com Blues, Blues Power Blog, PopMatters, Blinded By Sound, American Blues Scene

 

JLW Performs “Ride All Night” on Conan (3/5):  http://teamcoco.com/video/joe-louis-walker-hellfire

Listen to streaming tracks from Hellfire at http://airplaydirect.com/joelouiswalker

 

"The Blues and Jazz: Two American Classics" - Thelonious Monk Institute Of Jazz, featuring BB King, JLW, Keb' Mo,' Robert Cray, Bono and The Edge (U2). The event honored B.B. King and was held at the Kodak Theatre on October 26, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.

Photos from Belgium 2009.