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A Tribute to Joe Louis Walker by Paul Steward
Experience world-class blues, dinner, and drinks — all in one intimate setting.
Charlie Musselwhite called Paul Steward's band Twice As Good the real deal blues, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian booked them for its Living Earth Festival. Steward, a Pomo guitarist from Elem Indian Colony, won 2010 honors from both the Native American Music Awards and the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame, and Blues Blast Magazine called his solo record World Champion highly recommended. He lectures in American Indian Studies at San Francisco State, where Joe Louis Walker earned his degrees. Walker, born in San Francisco on Christmas Day 1949, roomed with Mike Bloomfield and recorded for HighTone, Verve and Alligator before his 2013 Blues Hall of Fame induction. Two shows, one small room.
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By sixteen Joe Louis Walker was house guitarist at San Francisco's Matrix, sharing bills with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimi Hendrix, then spent a decade singing gospel with the Spiritual Corinthians. Paul Steward brings his own resume: two decades fronting Twice As Good with his father Richard, a 2023 YBCA 100 honor, and the first commercially released song in the Southeastern Pomo dialect. He plays guitar, bass, harmonica and keys. Tables go fast.