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"Thank you for another great concert. I knew I was about to hear a great blues guitarist with terrific material and anecdotes, but I was really inspired by your new direction. I admire someone at the top of his game who doesn’t rest on his accomplishments but keeps questing and evolving. That’s exciting! Thank you too for your excellent help with promotion. I always love it when artists attract their own devoted fans, and it was a special help yesterday."
- Miriam McCloud - Empty Nest House Concerts.
- Miriam McCloud - Empty Nest House Concerts.
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"Now you play them blues real good. I want you to carry them on for me."
...Eugene Powell, Mississippi blues musician |
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"Flat out... you have to hear this great musician. I'm blown away"
- Jorma Kaukonen Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee and founder of the Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp. |
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"Toby Walker is a fingerstyle guitar virtuoso, a wizard, especially adept at blues, rags and hot country picking. He has a solid command of all aspects of blues fingerpicking, and he knows how to teach it as well."
Happy Traum, owner of Homespun Music Instruction. |
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"As a blues guitar player, I am stunned and in awe of Toby Walker's pickin'! Add to that his fine songs and singing and friendly presentation, and it's obvious that Toby Walker is one of the most enjoyable artists in today's Blues World."
- Bob Margolin - Muddy Waters Band. |
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"Man, I just love your playing. You scare me"
Hubert Sumlin, guitarist for the late Howlin' Wolf. |
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"Your performance was phenomenal. There aren't many solo performers I'd hire that can wow an entire festival audience. It's amazing how you can make hundreds of people feel like they're a friend of yours after a single set.
I think you've also converted scores of folks who didn't realize they were Blues fans!" Howard Meirs - Director - Long Island Traditional Music Association |
Photo by Larry Sribnick
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"Toby Walker is that rare performer that takes your breath away. In my book he's in a class by himself. Standards and originals are played with flawless blues guitar technique and sung with gutsy panache. A showstopper and ringtail roarer."
...David Massengill |
"The performance you gave us was outstanding in all respects. We consider your concert to have been a total success."
...Sybil Moser, Huntington Folk Music Society
...Sybil Moser, Huntington Folk Music Society
"A real killer with fantastic technique.
He just knocks me out."
- John Hammond
He just knocks me out."
- John Hammond
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Toby Walker - Groovin In New Fairfield - 1/27/18
“Blues raconteur Toby Walker is the real deal. Bringing with him a unique blend of styles encompassing traditional finger picking and slide, blues, ragtime, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, and jazz with outrageous story-telling, Toby serves up an evening of what I would call complete entertainment. Whether telling tales of his time on the road (and this man has gotten around), giving a historical perspective of a particular tune he’s about to play, paying homage to his own musical heroes or just letting loose with some spur-of-the-moment humor, there is no time spent idle during a Toby Walker show. And that, I would have to say, does certainly embellish what it is you actually came to hear…..some flat out awesome guitar technique. So good is this man’s synthesis of styles that he has been an instructor at Jorma Kaukonen’s (that’s Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane) Fur Peace Guitar Camp for 7 years to which Jorma has stated, “Flat out…you’ve got to hear this great musician…I’m blown away!”
Jeff Main
“Blues raconteur Toby Walker is the real deal. Bringing with him a unique blend of styles encompassing traditional finger picking and slide, blues, ragtime, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, and jazz with outrageous story-telling, Toby serves up an evening of what I would call complete entertainment. Whether telling tales of his time on the road (and this man has gotten around), giving a historical perspective of a particular tune he’s about to play, paying homage to his own musical heroes or just letting loose with some spur-of-the-moment humor, there is no time spent idle during a Toby Walker show. And that, I would have to say, does certainly embellish what it is you actually came to hear…..some flat out awesome guitar technique. So good is this man’s synthesis of styles that he has been an instructor at Jorma Kaukonen’s (that’s Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane) Fur Peace Guitar Camp for 7 years to which Jorma has stated, “Flat out…you’ve got to hear this great musician…I’m blown away!”
Jeff Main