PHOTOGRAPH | BILL STEBER

HOUSTON INSTITUTE FOR CULTURE | FEATURED ARTIST

Robert Walker, Stovall, MS, 1994
Robert Walker duck-walks down the road behind Muddy Waters cabin on the Stovall plantation outside Clarksdale, MS. Originally from Bobo, MS, Walker has spent the last few decades traveling between his home in Bakersfield, CA and his hometown in Bobo, often arriving in a used limo, van or school bus. Walker is one of the last genuine Delta juke-house rockers, alternating in his set between blues standards to numerous Chuck Berry numbers, as well as the occasional country song. Whether playing in front of 1,000 blues fans at a festival or a dozen hometown fans in the back of a Delta general store, WalkerÍs live shows are always memorable.