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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Junior Walker and the All Stars - Shotgun
PLEASE NOTE: I upload my shared between several channels bookmark this link into your browser instant access to an index of links to all John1948's Oldies Classics. LINK: tinyurl.com Motown's skilled but mostly anonymous instrumentalists very rarely stepped on their own. The only exception to the rule was tenor saxman Junior Walker, whose rough-and-ready, old-school R & B was a marked contrast to the labels usually smooth, polished product. Walker's squealing Gutbucket stylewas by the jump blues and early R & B, especially players like Louis Jordan, Earl Bostic, Illinois Jacquet and inspired. Possessed of a raspy, untrained voice, Walker's singing nonetheless complemented the energy of his sax playing, and he cut a wealth of danceable, party hearty R & B for Motown during his heyday in the second half of the 60s. Autry DeWalt II Walker was on 14 Born in June 1931 (though Motown gave his birth date 1942), in Blytheville, AR. (Some accounts list his birth name asOscar G. Mixon, which was then changed at some point during his early childhood.) DeWalt grew up in South Bend, IN, and played saxophone in high school, he was soon in the implementation of local jazz and R & B clubs with his band , the jumping jacks, under the name Junior Walker. He stepped up to a trio with drummer Billy LED "Stix" Nicks, which also featured organist Fred Patton, they soon added backing vocalist and guitarist Willie Woods, and played around northern Indiana and southern...
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