Robert Walker

Blues guitarist and singer/songwriter Robert "Bilbo" Walker was raised in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Born February 19, 1937, on the Borden Plantation in Clarksdale, Walker counts Muddy Waters, Sam Cooke, Chuck Berry, and Ike Turner among his early stylistic influences. He lives in California and gets back to Mississippi frequently, and it shows. The music Walker and his bandmates produce on their two Rooster Blues releases, 1997's Promised Land and 2001's Rock the Night, is raw and in your face, straight out of the juke joints of the Delta. Walker was named after his ...