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Joe Louis Walker, Revered Electric Blues Musician, Dead at 75

Joe Louis Walker, the celebrated blues guitarist and singer, has died at the age of 75 from cardiac-related illness.

Joe Louis Walker, the virtuoso guitarist and electric blues musician whose work captured the breadth of the genre, died late last month. Walker was born and raised in San Francisco, began playing the guitar as a kid, and by the late 1960s was gigging around the Bay Area as a teenager. “I was just into making money for a drink or getting high.” By the mid-Seventies, Walker was working odd jobs and soon started playing with the gospel group, the Spiritual Corinthians.

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