“When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus.” Quote by Jose James
“I'm listening to a lot of Drake, and a lot of Frank Sinatra just because it's his centennial also. I'm going to be doing some tributes to him this year. I love that Beck album. It was funny to me because my two favorite albums of the year were definitely the Beyonce album and the Beck album.” YearsTwoListeningAlbumsFrankTributeBeyonceCentennial Author:Jose James
“Nowadays blues in particular has a wide, wide, wide, wide net of everything that's called blues. I think if somebody's coming to it in the last ten years or whatever, or even fifteen years, what their experience is what is called blues is different from mine. I have to expand my range of what's been called the blues. I think somebody who's new to it would have to go back and to see what is called blues now, where it came from. If that makes sense.” IfsThinkingYearsDifferentLastsMinesParticularTenWideMake SenseRangeFifteenFifteen Years Author:Joe Louis Walker
“At home in the states, I think there's a tendency in the states to go for the latest, greatest thing. The latest, greatest is the latest greatest. I think when you're talking about France, England, things like that, they look for the history of an artist and they go back when it comes to music like this anyway. They will go back a little bit further. I think the United States is very knowledgeable and it's a good place to play.” ThinkingLooksLittlesStatesPlayHomeArtistBitsUnitedTalkingUnited StatesLittle BitEnglandTendenciesFranceBack WhenKnowledgeableGood Place Author:Joe Louis Walker
“For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five thousand Facebook followers. You didn't have to worry about every club, every venue you play, where the venues say well you know can you put up this video, put up that Facebook, put up... Nowadays it's really like you just can't be a musician alone.” ThinkingKnowsWellsPlayArtistWorryFiveLike YouThousandMusicianTwentiesClubsVideoLike MeFollowersTwenty FiveVenuesReally Like You Author:Joe Louis Walker
“Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years that you never heard of playing live? You never heard of them making a record. You never heard of them in anybody else's band, and all of a sudden they're the biggest thing going. That to me, that's to me social media music. I'm not saying it's right or it's wrong but it is what it is.” ThinkingYearsLastsSocialRecordsFiveHeardGroupsHonestMediaBandSixSevenSocial MediaEightBeing HonestIt Is What It Is Author:Joe Louis Walker
“I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that.” StyleMusicalMusical Education Author:Joe Louis Walker
“I know that for category purposes, people have to lump certain artists in with genre that they make their name or their bones in. Nobody can tell me that Taj Mahal is pure blues. Nobody can tell me that Mike Bloomfield was pure blues. It was a lot of other things going on as well.” PeopleKnowsWellsPurposeArtistCertainNamesPureBonesGenreCategoriesMikeLumpsTaj MahalMahal Author:Joe Louis Walker
“I've worked with a lot of people and I like to play with people when it's fun, and people that I have fun with independent of music, do you know what I mean? Where you can just joke and kid around, because you can joke and kid around with somebody and when you get in the pressure cooker of the studio then you can it's just something.” PeopleKnowsMeanPlayKidsFunJokesPressureIndependentStudiosHaving FunDo You KnowCookers Author:Joe Louis Walker
“I'm a firm believer that you learn a hell of a lot more from your failures than you do from your successes.” HellBelieverFirm Author:Joe Louis Walker
“Maybe in my personal life, but as far as my career, I've been offered some humongous things in my career and didn't take them. I look back and think, oh man, well I'd have been well off monetarily wise, but artistic wise I don't know. I'd have to say, personally, in my personal life, yeah, but in my musical life, on twenty-twenty hindsight I would say just take the good with the bad.” ThinkingKnowsMenWellsLooksHas BeensCareersWiseTwentiesYeahMusicalArtisticPersonal LifeHindsightMusical Life Author:Joe Louis Walker