Great Guitars (Joe Louis Walker album)

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Great Guitars
Studio album by Joe Louis Walker
Released	April 8, 1997
Genre	Blues
Length	58:37
Label	Polygram
Producer	Joe Louis Walker Ike Turner Steve Cropper John Snyder
Joe Louis Walker chronology
Blues of the Month Club (1995) Great Guitars (1997) Preacher and the President (1998)

Great Guitars is an album by blues guitarist Joe Louis Walker.^[1][2] It was released in 1997 on the Polygram label as catalogue number 537141.

Many of the songs on the album are duets with other artists. The album received mostly favourable reviews upon its release.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing[]

1. "Low Down Dirty Blues" (Walker) – 6:57
2. "First Degree" (Turner, Walker) – 4:22
3. "Mile-Hi Club" (Walker) – 6:08
4. "Fix Our Love" (Walker) – 6:05
5. "Every Girl I See" (Dixon, Murphy) – 6:01
6. "Cold and Evil Night" (Walker) – 5:23
7. "Hop on It" (Grand, Walker) – 2:24
8. "Nighttime" (Walker) – 5:49
9. "Sugar" (Walker) – 6:21
10. "In God's Hands" (Walker) – 4:28
11. "High Blood Pressure" (Walker) – 4:39

Personnel[]

Musicians

• Joe Louis Walker: vocals, guitar, slide guitar, percussion, footstomping, arrangements
• Tom Rose: guitar, backing vocals
• : organ, piano and backing vocals
• : bass, backing vocals
• : 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"
• : guitar
• : harmonica
• : piano
• Richard Smith: bass
• ; bass
• ; drums
• The Tower of Power Horns:

Emilio Castillo: saxophone

: horn arrangements, trumpet

: horn arrangements, trumpet

Stephen "Doc" Kupka: baritone saxophone

: saxophone

• The Horns:

: tenor sax

: baritone sax

George Spencer: trumpet

: horn arrangements, trombone

Production

• Produced by Joe Louis Walker, Ike Turner, Steve Cropper,
• Executive producer: .
• Engineered by Scotty Moore, David Luke, , Jay Newland, , , Mark Hewitt, , , Stephen Hart,
• Assistant Engineers: , John Brant.
• Mastered by .

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