Plays Well With Others
The most diversified and exciting CD Toby Walker has ever produced! With special guests Bob Margolin (Muddy Waters Blues Band), Ernie Sykes (Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys), Buddy Merriam (Backroads) and many other guest artists, Walker shows off a range styles including down home blues, swing and roots music. Teaming up with the songwriters Martha Trachtenberg (the voice behind Folgers Coffee) and Tom Griffith (producer of Dr. John, Ry Cooder, George Benson) this CD highlights an array of new and catchy songs, as well as bringing new life to traditional standards.
| She Got Something There |
| Been On The Job Too Long |
| Death Don't Have No Mercy |
| 100 Real Good Reasons To Sing The Blues |
| Looking At The World Through A Winshield |
Live At The Bottleneck
| Matchbox Blues |
| I Know You Rider |
| Muleskinner Man |
| Corina |
| Main St. Rag |
"It's clear that Toby Walker is a Master of the blues regional American dialects. If there are only 10 fingers, then he's got the best blues hands in the business" - Blues Revue
"Truly consumate musicianship that is certainly going to enhance his already superb reputation"
Blues In Britain
"Pure acoustic blues heaven. We've rated it as our Top Five Picks for the season, right next to Eric Bibb and B.B. King."
...London Sunday Times
"Walker is a master raconteur as well as a fine musician and composer"
Wealden Arts Review
'Cool Hand'
| Blind Man's Bluff |
"Walker's acoustic guitar on this disc is inspired. His fingerpicking is as intricate as any linen finery, his thumb syncopated like an old-fashioned coffee pot percolating atop a Saturday morning stove. A pinch of Piedmont, a dash of Delta, a solid Chicago undercurrent minus the amplification but not the electricity - A brilliant, remarkable guitarist.
–––––– Brian Beatty, Blues Revue
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'Back In The Groove'
| Phonograph Blues |
"...His guitar is talon sharp and his observations are as cuttingly true as any eagle's beak...Walker's shimmering steel slides and fluent picking are highlighted by rough pipes and a harmonica rack worthy of John Hammond. The atmosphere is so Delta that you hear the weevils munching, the ancient rocking chair tipping back, the throat scalded whiskey burn and the magic of 10 fingers on 6 strings!"
–––– Mark Gresser...Long Island Blues
'Little Toby Walker'
| Who's Gonna Be Your Man? |
"A real killer with fantastic technique. He just knocks me out."
–––– John Hammond
"Acoustic picker Little Toby Walker has the kind of chops you'd expect from a solo perfomer. On his self-titled release, he demonstrates a masterful technique that draws from blues, ragtime and country."
––––Jeff Calvin...Blues Revue
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