New Orleans and Local Musicians who passed in 2022
Walter "Wolfman" Washington
12/22/22 at 79 years.
Here is his obituary:
Jon Pareles
Walter “Wolfman” Washington, a New Orleans guitarist and singer who played his mix of funk, blues, soul and jazz in the city’s clubs for six decades, died on Dec. 22 in a hospice in New Orleans. He was 79.
The cause was tonsil cancer, said his manager, Adam Shipley.
A quintessential local luminary, Mr. Washington held down long-running weekly residencies at clubs including the Maple Leaf and d.b.a, where he recorded a live album with his band, the Roadmasters, that was released in 2013. He was also a member of a durable trio, with the keyboardist Joe Krown and the drummer Russell Batiste Jr., that released “Live at the Maple Leaf” in 2008.
Between New Orleans gigs, Mr. Washington toured clubs, particularly around the South, and worked an international circuit of blues clubs and festivals.
Mr. Washington’s guitar playing was lean, light-fingered and harmonically rich, conveying a relaxed authority as it teased and jabbed. His voice could convey flirtatiousness, amusement, heartache or wily agility, and his syncopated phrasing was as close to jazz as to traditional blues, leaping easily into falsetto or letting loose a vulpine howl."
Here's a video of him doing "Steal Away"
https://youtu.be/3AnPFCmqBfo
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