A Tribute to Joe Louis Walker by Paul Steward

A Tribute to Joe Louis Walker by Paul Steward at Biscuits and Blues brings the story and sound of a San Francisco blues legend back to one of the city’s classic rooms, as Paul Steward steps up to honor Joe Louis Walker’s towering legacy. Born in San Francisco on Christmas Day 1949, Walker shared early stages with John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, and Charlie Musselwhite, roomed with Mike Bloomfield, took a gospel turn with the Spiritual Corinthians, then roared back with 1986’s Cold Is the Night, traded verses with B.B. King on the Grammy‑winning Blues Summit, and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame before his death in April 2025. Carrying that flame, Santa Rosa guitarist and soul singer Paul Steward—who fronted Twice As Good for over twenty years and earned both a Native American Music Award and a West Coast Blues Hall of Fame Award—channels his Elem Pomo roots, a lifetime of Bay Area stages, and his work now teaching American Indian studies at San Francisco State into a set that plays Walker’s songs the way they were meant to be heard: loud, live, and full of soul.

Tickets: $25-55