The son of an agricultural labourer family who came to California from Arkansas, has just released a new album for Alligator label Joe Louis Walker gives us eleven new songs, all them impregnated with the personal stamp of his special way of conceiving the blues Once again Louis mixes the primary gospel of his childhood with different influences his friend Mike Bloomfield taught him over the time they were very good friends Mississippi Fred McDowell or Howlin’ Wolf are two of the many bluesmen Joe discovered thanks to Mike, as well as the psychedelic blues he used to listen to Although Joe Louis Walker does not like to be compared with Robert Cray, it is inevitable, because both have common traces in contemporary blues The essence, the concept, the spirit how they play their music, are some of the similar common features these two musicians share and, although this album is not one of his best works, it contains some good songs that show his great potential as singer, guitarist and songwriter