Great Guitars is a music

Music

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 album released by blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 guitarist

Guitarist

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 Joe Louis Walker

Joe Louis Walker

Joe Louis Walker, also known as JLW is an American musician, best known as a electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. A feature of his work is his recourse to older material or playing styles, which revealed his knowledge of blues history.-Career:Joe Louis Walker was born in San...

 in 1997. It was issued on the Polygram

PolyGram

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 label as catalogue number 537141.

Many of the songs on the album are duets

Duet (music)

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 with other artists

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. The album received mostly favourable reviews upon its release.

Musicians

• Joe Louis Walker: vocals, guitar, slide guitar, percussion, footstomping, arrangements
• Tom Rose: guitar, backing vocals
• Mike Eppley: organ, piano and backing vocals
• Joe Thomas: bass, backing vocals
• Curtis Nutall: drums

Guest musicians

• Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
  
  : vocals and slide guitar on "Low Down Dirty Blues"
• Ike Turner
  Ike Turner
  Isaac Wister Turner was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. In a career that lasted more than half a century, his repertoire included blues, soul, rock, and funk...
  
  : guitar, keyboards, bass and tambourine on "First Degree"
• Buddy Guy
  Buddy Guy
  George "Buddy" Guy is an American blues and jazz guitarist and singer. He is a critically acclaimed artist who has established himself as a pioneer of the Chicago blues sound, and has served as an influence to some of the most notable musicians of his generation...
  
  : guitar on "Every Girl I See"
• Matt Murphy
  Matt Murphy (blues guitarist)
  Matt "Guitar" Murphy is an American blues guitarist.-Life and career:Matt Murphy was born in Sunflower, Mississippi, United States, and was educated in Memphis, where his father worked at the Peabody Hotel...
  
  : guitar on "Nighttime"
• Taj Mahal
  Taj Mahal (musician)
  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...
  
  : 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
  Otis Grand
  Otis Grand is an American blues musician, best known for his album, Perfume and Grime .-Biography:Although born in Beirut, Grand has spent much of his life in the United States...
  
  : guitar and lap-steel guitar on "Hop On It"
• Scotty Moore
  Scotty Moore
  Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III is an American guitarist. He is best known for his backing of Elvis Presley in the first part of his career, between 1954 and the beginning of Elvis' Hollywood years...
  
  : guitar
• Little Charlie Baty: guitar
• Steve Cropper
  Steve Cropper
  Steve Cropper , also known as Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T...
  
  : guitar on "Mile-Hi Club"
• Clarence Gatemouth Brown
  Clarence Gatemouth Brown
  Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was an American musician from Louisiana and Texas. He is best known for his work as a blues musician, but embraced other styles of music, having "spent his career fighting purism by synthesizing old blues, country, jazz, Cajun music and R&B styles"He was an acclaimed...
  
  : guitar on "Mile-Hi Club"
• Otis Rush
  Otis Rush
  Otis Rush is a blues musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound and long bent notes...
  
  ; vocals and guitar on "Fix Our Love"
• Charles "D.C." Carnes: guitar
• Wallace Coleman: harmonica
• Steve Diamond: piano
• Richard Smith: bass
• Steve Gomes; bass
• Rob Stupka; drums
• Jimmy "Gator" Hoare

• The Tower Of Power
  Tower of Power
  Tower of Power is an American R&B-based horn section and band, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing for over 43 years. They are best known for their funky soul sound highlighted by a powerful horn section...
  
   Horns:

Emilio Castillo: saxophone

Bill Churchville: horn arrangements, trumpet

Barry Danielian: horn arrangements, trumpet

Stephen "Doc" Kupka: baritone saxophone

John Scarpulla: saxophone

• The Johnny Nocturne Horns:

John Firmin: tenor sax

Rob Sudduth: baritone sax

George Spencer

George Spencer

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: trumpet

Marty Wehner: horn arrangements, trombone

Produced by Joe Louis Walker, Ike Turner, Steve Cropper, John Snyder. Executive producer: Jean-Philippe Allard.

Engineered by Scotty Moore, David Luke, Howard Willing, Jay Newland, Jim Albert, Ken Kessie, Mark Hewitt

Mark Hewitt

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, Mike Creswell, Paul Haumann, Stephen Hart

Stephen Hart

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, Steve Spaperri Assistant Engineers: Ben Conrad, John Brant.

Mastered by Chris Bellman.

Track listing

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