OBITUARY: Bluesman Phillip Walker, Singer-Guitarist Recorded with Louisiana Artists Dies

Noted West Coast blues singer-guitarist Phillip Walker died of heart failure July 22 in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 73. Walker learned to play guitar as a teenager, and fell under the sway of such Lone Star musicians as T-Bone Walker and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. At 17, he joined the band of Louisiana zydeco musician Clifton Chenier, with whom he toured for two years. He went on to play with Memphis R&B singer Rosco Gordon and Texas border town guitarist Long John Hunter...

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