Charles Walker (9)

Blues singer and guitarist, born July 26, 1922 in Macon, Georgia, died June 24, 1975 in New York. Charles Walker was born and raised in Macon, Georgia. He began his professional music career when he moved from Newark, New Jersey to New York. During the late 50s, Charles became one of the city’s best known blues musicians. Those were the days when you could walk into a club in Harlem and expect to hear a blues band fronted by Charles or Tarheel Slim or Hal Paige or Buster Brown or maybe even Wilbert Harrison if you went on the right night. You could go into Bobby Robinson’s Record Shack on 125th Street and expect to come out with the latest blues releases on labels like Fury, Fire, Vest, Holiday, Atlas or a score of others. Walker moved to Newark, N.J., to work outside music in youth, recorded singles for Holiday in 1957, Vest in 1960, Atlas in 1964, and an LP for Oblivion in 1973-1974.