Wily Bo Walker
Wily Bo Walker is an award-winning solo artist, songwriter, composer and performer noted for his swaggering ‘live’ performances
Working primarily in multi-genre songwriting, storytelling, performance and production he is also regarded as one of the top blues vocalists in Europe and is one of very few independent artists from the U.K. who have been inducted in to the U.S. Blues Hall of Fame
With a career spanning more than 40 years, Wily Bo works across many styles and genres; Rock, Blues, Gospel, Soul, Classic R&B, Jazz, AAA and Americana and has played ‘live’ worldwide with many award-winning musicians, featuring on hundreds of recordings
From his huge New York styled ‘blues and soul revue’ recording projects to his New Orleans themed, ’Rattlin Bone Burlesque Theatre Show’, his ‘live’n’kickin’ electric 5 piece band, his solo acoustic swamp’n’stomp shows through to his stripped-down 6 piece rockin’ Blues and Americana themed ‘The Wily Bo Walker Acoustic Band’, Wily Bo proves why he has been widely recognised as an Artist who can twist genres into new forms
An independent Scottish artist, selling into 90+ countries and with a huge global following on streaming sites like Spotify (over 5 million streams), his albums ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’ (Jul 2020), ‘Moon Over Indigo’ (Sept 2015) and ‘Wily Bo Walker & The Danny Flam Big Band‘ (Nov 2013) have all been considered for Grammy nominations
His latest album releases, ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’ (Jul 2020) and it’s sister album ‘Tales of the Mescal Canyon Troubadours’ (Feb 2021), explore the genre-twists that have come to be expected of Wily Bo productions with ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’ reaching No 1 for 7 weeks in the Roots Music Reports UK Album Charts and No 4 for 2 weeks in the U.S. Blues Album Charts
His 2018 album ‘Almost Transparent Blues’ received accolades worldwide and reached No 1 for 5 weeks in the Roots Music Report UK Album Charts and Top 30 in the coveted Roots Music Report U.S. Blues Album Charts
Working with multi-instrumentalist E. D. Brayshaw, the album ‘The Roads We Ride’ charted worldwide (#150 in the Roots Music Report Contemporary Blues Charts across all albums in the genre released in 2019). They received spectacular reviews with the track ‘The Ballad of Johnny & Louise’ also reaching No 1 in the prestigious Netherlands’ Hit-Tracks Top 100
In 2021, Wily will be working with E D Brayshaw on their next release, ‘Some People Kill for Passion’, which will again feature their dark Americana, Gothic noir, swampy blues tales and soaring guitar solos which have heavily featured in his recent ‘live’ shows with both his Acoustic Band and his Electric Band
Wily Bo is also producing the music and soundtrack album for ‘The Rattlin Bone Burlesque Theatre Show’ a theatre production that will open at a London Theatre late 2022 and will also feature as part of Wily Bo’s ‘VoodooVille’ collection of stories and albums…
All roads lead to VoodooVille…
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Recent Achievements:
‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’ listed in the ‘Scottish Album of the Year Awards’ in 2021
‘I Want to Know’ from ‘Tales of the Mescal Canyon Troubadours’ nominated for ‘Song of the Year’ in the Jazz & Blues category of Josie’s Music Awards 2021
‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’ nominated in the ‘Best Blues-Rock CD’ category the Independent Blues Awards, 2021
Two songs nominated for ‘Song of the Year, one in the Rock category and one in the Jazz & Blues category, in the Josie’s Music Awards, 2020
No 1 in the Roots Music Report UK Album Charts for 7 weeks with ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’, Aug – Oct 2020
No 4 in the Roots Music Report US Blues Album Charts for 2 weeks with ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’, Aug 2020
No 1 in the Roots Music Report US Contemporary Blues Album Charts for ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’, Aug 2020
‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’, ‘The Roads We Ride’, ‘Almost Transparent Blues’, ‘Moon Over Indigo’ and ‘Stone Cold Beautiful’ all achieved ‘CD of the Week’ status in the prestigious European based Hit-Tracks Top 100
Finalist in the ‘Best Male Vocalist’ category in the European Blues Awards, 2019
No 1 with ‘The Ballad of Johnny & Louise’ from ‘The Roads We Ride’ in the Netherlands’ Hit-Tracks Top 100 charts, August 2019
Three songs synced to Award Winning U.S. TV Show ‘Bail Out’ Episode 6, ‘I Am Lorenzo Lamas’, 2019
Finalist in the ‘Best Contemporary Blues Band’ category in the Independent Blues Awards, 2019
Finalist in the ‘Best Blues (Traditional) Artist’ category in the LA Critic Awards, Dec 2018
Finalist in the European Blues Awards ‘2018 Album of the Year’ category with ‘Almost Transparent Blues’
No 1 Album in the Roots Music Report UK Album Charts for 5 weeks with ‘Almost Transparent Blues’, July 2018
Top 30 Album in the Roots Music Report U.S. Blues Album Charts, July 2018
Inducted in to the U.S. ‘Blues Hall of Fame’ as a ‘Master Blues Artist’ in Dec 2016
Finalist and Runner-up in the 2016 Banks Radio Australia Awards’ ‘Producer of the Year’ category for ‘Long Way to Heaven (Chicago Gospel Mix)’
Finalist and Runner-Up in the 2016 British Blues Awards in the ‘Kevin Thorpe Award for Songwriter’ category
No 1 for Christmas 2015 with ‘Who Do You Love (NY Chiller Mix)’ in the Netherlands’ Hit-Tracks Top 100 charts
Runner-Up in the 2015 British Blues awards in the ‘Blues Song’ category for ‘Long Way to Heaven’
Runner-Up in the 2015 Blues awards on Severn FM in the ‘Best Studio Album of 2015’ category for ‘A Long Way from Heaven…’
7th most played Blues Artist in 2015 across all of the UK Independent Blues Association Radio shows
‘The Roads We Ride’, ‘Moon Over Indigo’ and ‘Stone Cold Beautiful’ all achieved ‘CD of the Week’ status in the prestigious European based Hit-Tracks Top 100
Nominated for Best Male Vocals in the 2014 British Blues Awards
‘Chattahoochee Coochee Man’, a Wily Bo Walker & The Mescal Canyon Troubadours track, featured on the Covermount CD: Issue 18 (Dec 2014) of ‘The Blues’ mag
No 1 Blues, Jazz & Classic Rock artist in the US and Worldwide MySpace charts (Jan 2013)