Johnny "Big Moose" Walker

b. John Mayon Walker, 27 June 1927, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA, d. 27 November 1999, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Of partly Native American stock, Walker learned to play several instruments in his teens but was known primarily as a pianist. He began touring with blues bands from 1947, playing piano and organ, and worked with many Mississippi artists in the 40s and early 50s, including Ike Turner, Sonny Boy ‘Rice Miller' Williamson, Lowell Fulson and Choker Campbell. Walker's most enduring associations were with Elmore James and Earl Hooker, to whose recordings he made telling co...