Bart Walker - Waiting On Daylight

Nashville is known worldwide as the capital of country music. But any fan of gutty, southern-fried blues will be thrilled by one of that city's newest musical imports, Bart Walker. Both an incendiary guitar player and a gifted storyteller, Walker channels a wealth of influences from the blues and classic rock arenas on his explosive Ruf Records debut,' Waiting on Dayligh't, produced and engineered by multiple Grammy Award winner Jim Gaines. The album comes on the heels of Walker's victory at the 2012 International Blues Challenge (Gibson Guitarist Award) and his well-received, self-produced debut' Who I Am'. "When we started out with this new record," says Walker, "I was constantly thinking about how I was I gonna top the last one. About 20 minutes into the session, Jim showed me how that was gonna happen." Walker isn't yet a household name, but he's not a newcomer, either. A guitar player since the age of four, he's already logged plenty of road miles as the right-hand man to country-rocker Bo Bice and collaborated in the studio with such heavyweights as Steve Gorman (Black Crowes), Audley Freed (Cry Of Love, Black Crowes) and Robert Kearns (Cry of Love, Lynyrd Skynyrd). He's played with Stevie Ray Vaughan's original back-up band Double Trouble and until recently had Double Trouble keyboarder Reese Wynans as a regular member of his own touring outfit.