Everybody Wants a Piece

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Everybody Wants a Piece
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 9, 2015
Genre Blues
Length52:44
Label Provogue
Producer Paul Nelson
Joe Louis Walker chronology
Hornet's Nest
(2014)
Everybody Wants a Piece
(2015)

Everybody Wants a Piece is an album by Joe Louis Walker. [1] [2] [3] [4] The album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album. [5]

Track listing

  1. "Everybody Wants a Piece" (Joe Louis Walker) – 5:03
  2. "Do I Love Her" (Taj Mahal) – 3:02
  3. "Buzz on You" (Richard Fleming, Tom Hambridge) – 5:01
  4. "Black & Blue" (John Bradford, Walker) – 5:57
  5. "Witchcraft" (Walker ?) – 5:12
  6. "One Sunny Day" (Danny Kirwan) – 4:33
  7. "Gospel Blues" (Bradford, Anthony Cage, Walker, Phillip Young) – 5:54
  8. "Wade in the Water" (traditional) – 6:25
  9. "Man of Many Words" (Buddy Guy) – 3:14
  10. "Young Girls Blues" (Bradford, Cage, Walker, Young) – 4:15
  11. "35 Years Old" (Joe Russo, Walker) – 4:08

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