My hopes are being realized by many of talented young artists that I am aware of. Their futures are bright and so is the future of music.
David T. Walker is a legendary artist, guitarist, musician, producer and composer known for His distinct and Beautiful Signature Sound/Touch which is often compared to a Harp, Birds or Water with “Soul, In Light & Grace”. David T. Walker was born on June 25, 1941 in Tulsa, Oklahoma USA. Started playing the saxophone in the fourth grade and also had begun to hear Music from the local people and Family members. Music such as Chants from Indigenous or Native Americans, Black Gospel and the of a Rural Funky Nature from the Field hands or working Black People. These were His earliest Musical influences heartfelt and pure emotional spirited life situations.
His Journey continued “In Full Bloom” with “The Power of Choice” and a “Joyful Insight”, with the wisdom and humility of “The Real T”. He is self-taught and schooled at working in juke joints or Clubs etc. While in High School, the group called The Kinfolks was formed. The Kinfolks traveled the entire USA many times after High School playing and traveling all the back roads and out of the way Chitlin Circuits and Theatre Musical Circuits for 7 years. Their road gigs included time with The Olympics, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Etta James, and Little Willie John, just to name a few.
David T Walker
At age 28, He signed a recording contract and His first Solo Album was released and at the same time began to venture into Studio Recording Work. He was the First call Extraordinary Creative and Talented session Guitarist and worked with eventually hundreds upon hundreds of other artists, such as Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Temptations, James Brown, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Cannonball Adderly, Stanley Turrentine, Jimmy Smith, Pharoah Sanders, Donald Byrd, Quincy Jones, Carole King, Boz Scaggs, Billy Preston, Bobby Womack, Lou Rawls, Solomon Burke, Sammy Davis Jr., Barry White, Bill Withers, Dean Martin, Mamas & Papas, Gladys Knight, Sarah Vaughn, and many more. He has received numerous achievement awards including Gold & Platinum Records.
My sound is all about Tone & Touch which means I have spent many years practicing which has helped me to progress musically and refine my Tone, Ideas & Touch. My philosophy of music basically is to play and enjoy what you feel.
I think it is because it involves playing, expressing from the heart which makes it easy for people to understand and feel.
David T. Walker
From the beginning, my experience in juke joints and clubs I understood it to be going to school, paying my dues for the lessons that I needed at the time.
The first thing comes to my mind is that I have learned about the and soul circuits…even though there is adversity and hard times, those kinds of places and venues certainly have helped me to develop the ability and strength to persevere. The means to me a soulful attitude and understanding of reality and the possibility of changing that reality.
From the beginning, my experience in juke joints and clubs I understood it to be going to school, paying my dues for the lessons that I needed at the time.
David Walker & Moxoa
The most memorable gigs that I have experienced were with a group called “The Kinfolks” from high school and my first seven years with them on the Chitlin Circuit, Juke Joints or Clubs with them traveling around the country constantly. During that time, we spent some time with The Olympics, a year with Hank Ballard & The Midnighters and after that a year with Etta James a couple of years with Martha & The Vandellas / Motown Acts.
One of the most important experiences was the meeting I had in regards to my first recording contract in 1967 with Universal Music / MCA, because I was choosing the musical direction for myself. All the periods in my musical career were interesting, but to begin the period that saw me doing many recordings with many different kinds of artists, working with all these personalities and their artistries certainly was different from where I came from and very interesting.
Honesty, Sincerity, Dedication, Talent and Good Fortune while paying attention to how the world goes around and playing on / using those experience.
David T. Walker の Carruthers Guitar (続報;2013.2.23 At Billboard Tokyo )
These are some of the greatest artists. I am honored and very very fortunate to have been in their presence and participated with them in their music. These are memories that I still use in my musical contributions in whatever I do musically. These memories are embedded in my music / spirit. I share them whenever I play my guitar.
I do not miss anything because I still have the past with me in my heart daily. I do not have any fears for the future of music. My hopes are being realized by many of talented young artists that I am aware of. Their futures are bright and so is the future of music.
Just the thought of their names brings a big smile to my face because I am privileged to know them and have worked with them.
David Walker Live @ Magnolia Patio Bar, The Faust Hotel, New Braunfels, September 24 2023
If I could take a trip with a time machine, I would visit everyone that I have ever met, because they all influenced me in some fashion and I would give them a big Thank You.
The best advice ever given to me was stay clean & healthy and practice, practice, practice. The advice I would give to new generation is the same as the one given to me, plus be true to the music or your perception of the music and “Press On” “With A Smile”!
If I could take a trip with a time machine, I would visit everyone that I have ever met, because they all influenced me in some fashion and I would give them a big Thank You.By: Michael D. McClellan | David T. Walker’s fingerprints are all over one of the most noteworthy periods in music history, his contributions to the Motown corpus lauded by everyone from Stevie Wonder to Diana Ross , but you would never know it, not with the reticent Walker perfectly comfortable working in the shadows of such brilliance. Ubiquitous yet invisible, a silent partner to some of the greatest recording artists of all time, Walker’s reputation as a consummate pro long ago earned him the trust of music royalty – and with it a lifetime worth of memories. Smokey Robinson. Marvin Gaye. Aretha Franklin. Name a star in Berry Gordy’s Motown universe and chances are Walker has recorded with them, 2, 500 albums and counting, his guitar appearing on everything from Wonder’s Innervisions to Gaye’s What’s Going On. Not bad for a self-taught guitar player whose journey began humbly and provided little hint that Walker would, like the fictional character Forest Gump, find himself smack dab in the middle of 1960s zeitgeist.
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“I’ve been blessed to play with a lot of very talented and creative people, ” Walker says, his satin-smooth voice carrying a singular brand of charisma – an unpretentious swagger that is equal parts chill guitarist and dispenser of sage advice. “It’s very gratifying to have gone on their journey with them. It’s something that unfolded one song at a time, so to speak.”
Walker’s journey from obscurity to Hitsville, USA, is full of twists and turns, the kind that can take a young kid from Watts to the Deep South to New York and back again. It happens in cramped cars, in cramped Harlem hotel rooms with nothing more than a place to wash your hands and lay your head, and in smoky clubs working for pennies on the dollar. It happens in greasy diners, with barely enough change to pay the bill. It happens on the side of the road, the broiling summer sun bearing down and frustrations boiling over, petty arguments pitting brother against brother and occasionally leading to punches thrown. It’s a life filled with dirty clothes and lined with empty stomachs. There’s no entourage. There’s no cook, no physical therapist, no private jet or screaming fans. This is what life is like on the road when you’re barely out of high school, the possibilities endless, the odds of success equally daunting. And while the journey seems to start here, it actually begins years earlier, the seeds of a musical career sown decades before Walker began jamming with pop music’s illuminati.
“I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ” Walker says, “but my parents migrated to California when I was two years old. We bounced around when I was growing up – I started school in San Pedro, but I didn’t finish the year there. We moved first to Greenfield, and then Bakersfield, which was very much a rural setting back then. The blues was a prominent form of music because the people that lived in that area of central California were largely from the South. I worked the fields before and after school, and I learned a lot about music from the people
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