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Fog City Blues

Remembering Joe Louis Walker (1949-2025)

Martin McClain

The SF-born bluesman passed away last week at age 75.

Joe Louis Walker was a San Francisco native and modern blues icon who joined host Devon Strolovitch live in the studio on February 29, 2012, where he talked about his early days rooming with guitarist Michael Bloomfield and played songs from his then-new album Hellfire. Listen back to that interview and performance this Sunday May 4 at 4 pm and streaming until May 11.

Devon Strolovitch studied medieval Judeo-Portuguese manuscripts and earned a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University before coming to KALW. He is the Senior Producer of Philosophy Talk, and since 2007 has hosted Fog City Blues, the weekly digest of Blues in the Bay Area and beyond.