Great Guitars (Joe Louis Walker album)

Great Guitars is the thirteenth studio album released by blues guitarist Joe Louis Walker in 1997. It was issued on the Polygram label as catalogue number 537141.

Many of the songs on the album are duets with other artists. The album received mostly favourable reviews upon its release.

Musicians

• Joe Louis Walker: vocals, guitar, slide guitar, percussion, footstomping, arrangements
• Tom Rose: guitar, backing vocals
• Mike Eppley: organ, piano and backing vocals
• Joe Thomas: bass, backing vocals
• Curtis Nutall: drums

Guest musicians

• Bonnie Raitt: vocals and slide guitar on "Low Down Dirty Blues"
• Ike Turner: guitar, keyboards, bass and tambourine on "First Degree"
• Buddy Guy: guitar on "Every Girl I See"
• Matt Murphy: guitar on "Nighttime"
• Taj Mahal: national steel guitar, ratchet guitar and footstomps on "In God's Hands"
• Robert Lockwood, Jr.: 12-string electric guitar on "High Blood Pressure"
• Otis Grand: guitar and lap-steel guitar on "Hop on It"
• Scotty Moore: guitar
• Little Charlie Baty: guitar
• Steve Cropper: guitar on "Mile-Hi Club"
• Clarence Gatemouth Brown: guitar on "Mile-Hi Club"
• Otis Rush; vocals and guitar on "Fix Our Love"
• Charles "D.C." Carnes: guitar
• Wallace Coleman: harmonica
• Steve Diamond: piano
• Richard Smith: bass
• Steve Gomes; bass
• Rob Stupka; drums
• Jimmy "Gator" Hoare
• The Tower of Power Horns:

Emilio Castillo: saxophone

Bill Churchville: horn arrangements, trumpet

Barry Danielian: horn arrangements, trumpet

Stephen "Doc" Kupka: baritone saxophone

John Scarpulla: saxophone

• The Johnny Nocturne Horns:

John Firmin: tenor sax

Rob Sudduth: baritone sax

George Spencer: trumpet

Marty Wehner: horn arrangements, trombone

Produced by Joe Louis Walker, Ike Turner, Steve Cropper, John Snyder. Executive producer: Jean-Philippe Allard.

Engineered by Scotty Moore, David Luke, Howard Willing, Jay Newland, Jim Albert, Ken Kessie, Mark Hewitt, Mike Creswell, Paul Haumann, Stephen Hart, Steve Spaperri Assistant Engineers: Ben Conrad, John Brant.

Mastered by Chris Bellman.

Track listing

• 1. "Low Down Dirty Blues" (6:57) (Walker)
• 2. "First Degree" (4:22) (Turner, Walker)
• 3. "Mile-Hi Club" (6:08) (Walker)
• 4. "Fix Our Love" (6:05) (Walker)
• 5. "Every Girl I See" (6:01) (Dixon, Murphy)
• 6. "Cold And Evil Night" (5:23) (Walker)
• 7. "Hop on It" (2:24) (Grand, Walker)
• 8. "Nighttime" (5:49) (Walker)
• 9. "Sugar" (6:21) (Walker)
• 10. "In God's Hands" (4:28) (Walker)
• 11. "High Blood Pressure" (4:39) (Walker)