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LITTLE TOBY WALKER - The Cellars At Eastney, Sunday 2oth May American acoustic blues guitarist Little Toby Walker is the real deal. Despites some superb recordings, he needs to be experienced live -and those fortunate enough to attend one of his Bullfrog Blues Club gigs at South Parade Pier will vouch for that! Walker is a unique, accomplished fingerstyle guitar virtuoso, adept at blues, rags, hot country picking, and coaxes more out of a guitar than can be imagined. He is also a skilled singer and songwriter who draws inspiration from traditional and contemporary music. Few blues musicians have dug in so deep in understanding and interpreting the real blues as Toby Walker has. With uncanny skill and masterful delivery Walker not only keeps the authentic country blues traditions alive with all the old tunings, syncopations, rhythms, tunings, riffs and songs taught to him by the first-generation players in the Deep South (including Eugene Powell, James "Son" Thomas, Etta Baker, and R.L Burnside), but also with his own powerful compositions. In 2006 his mastery of the blues was recognized in Memphis when he won the International Blues Challenge Award. There are only a handful of people playing country blues today who truly keep thetradition alive, musicologists who simultaneously muster the full range of instrumental mastery - but count Toby Walker amongst them! Many of the original players of the golden era never had therecognition they deserved, but their legacy lives through Walker. It just doesn't get better than this. Little Toby Walker is supported by Andy Broad, Matt Beckwith and Adam Franklin, performing as an acoustic blues trio. Little Toby Walker appears at "The Cellars At Eastney", Cromwell Rd,, Eastney, Portsmouth on Sunday 20th May 2007. Tickets (£8.00 advance) available at The Cellars (from noon daily) or online via www.thecellars.co.uk