Wily Bo Walker
London
Wily Bo Walker is an award-winning solo artist, songwriter, composer and performer noted for his swaggering 'live' performances
Renowned as being a diverse and prolific artist and hailing originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Wily Bo works across many styles and genres; Blues, Gospel, Soul, Classic R&B, Rock, Jazz, AAA and Americana
From his acoustic swamp’n’stomp Americana shows with ‘The Wily Bo Walker Acoustic Band’, his live & kickin' 6 piece Rock & Blues ‘Wily Bo Walker Band’ through to his full band with Danny Flam & The New York Brass, Wily Bo proves why he has been recognised as an Artist who can twist genres into new forms and has been inducted in to the ‘U.S. Blues Hall of Fame’ as ‘Master Blues Artist’
An independent Scottish artist, his release ‘Moon Over Indigo’ (Sept 2015) was considered for a 2016 Grammy nomination as was his prior collaboration with Grammy Award winner, Danny Flam; ‘Wily Bo Walker & The Danny Flam Big Band‘ (Nov 2013)
Expanding upon the success of ‘Moon Over Indigo’, Wily Bo and Danny Flam worked with some of the cream of U.S. & U.K. musicians on an album ‘Ain't No Man a Good Man’ (Jul 2020) which explored the genre-twists that have come to be expected of a Wily Bo production
His 2018 album ‘Almost Transparent Blues’ received accolades worldwide and reached No 1 for 5 weeks in the Roots Music Report UK Album Charts and Top 30 in the coveted Roots Music Report U.S. Blues Album Charts
Working with multi-instrumentalist E. D. Brayshaw, the album ‘The Roads We Ride’ charted worldwide (#150 in the Roots Music Report Contemporary Blues Charts across all albums in the genre released in 2019). They received spectacular reviews and the track ‘The Ballad of Johnny & Louise’ also reaching No 1 in the prestigious Netherlands’ Hit-Tracks Top 100
In 2021, Wily has started working with E D Brayshaw on their next releases, ‘Some People Kill for Passion’ & 'Drinking to Forget', both of which will feature their dark Americana, Gothic noir, swampy blues tales and soaring guitar solos
Wily Bo is also producing the music and soundtrack album for ‘The Rattlin Bone Theatre Show’ a theatre production that will open at a London Theatre late 2022
All roads lead to VoodooVille…
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Recent Achievements:
‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’ long-listed in the ‘Scottish Album of the Year Awards’ in 2021
‘I Want to Know’ from ‘Tales of the Mescal Canyon Troubadours’ nominated for ‘Song of the Year’ in the Jazz & Blues category of Josie’s Music Awards 2021
‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’ nominated in the ‘Best Blues-Rock CD’ category the Independent Blues Awards, 2021
Two songs nominated for ‘Song of the Year, one in the Rock category and one in the Jazz & Blues category, in the Josie’s Music Awards, 2020
No 1 in the Roots Music Report UK Album Charts for 7 weeks with ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’, Aug-Oct 2020
No 4 in the Roots Music Report US Blues Album Charts for 2 weeks with ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’, Aug 2020
No 1 in the Roots Music Report US Contemporary Blues Album Charts for ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’, Aug 2020
‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’, ‘The Roads We Ride’, 'Almost Transparent Blues', ‘Moon Over Indigo’ and ‘Stone Cold Beautiful’ all achieved ‘CD of the Week’ status in the prestigious European based Hit-Tracks Top 100
Finalist in the ‘Best Male Vocalist’ category in the European Blues Awards, 2019
Finalist in the ‘Best Contemporary Blues Band’ category in the Independent Blues Awards, 2019
Nominated as ‘Best Blues (Traditional) Artist’ in the LA Critic Awards, Dec 2018
Finalist in the 2016 British Blues Awards in the ‘Kevin Thorpe Award for Songwriter’ category
Runner-Up in the 2015 British Blues awards in the ‘Blues Song’ category for ‘Long Way to Heaven’
Runner-Up in the 2015 Blues awards on Severn FM in the ‘Best Studio Album of 2015’ category for ‘A Long Way from Heaven…’
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