Wily Bo Walker

Wily Bo Walker is an award-winning solo artist, songwriter, composer and performer noted for his swaggering 'live' performances and is regarded as one of the top blues vocalists in Europe

An independent Scottish artist, selling into 90+ countries and with a huge global following on streaming sites like Spotify (over half a million listeners and over 5 million streams in the past couple of years)

His album releases ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’ (July 2020), ‘Moon Over Indigo’ (Sept 2015) and ‘Wily Bo Walker & The Danny Flam Big Band‘ (Nov 2013) were all considered for Grammy nominations (Danny Flam is a Grammy Award winner for his work with Kanye West etc)

‘Ain't No Man a Good Man’ (Jul 2020) and it’s sister album ‘Tales of the Mescal Canyon Troubadours’ (Feb 2021) explore the genre-twists that have come to be expected of Wily Bo productions. ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’ reached No 1 for 7 weeks in the Roots Music Reports UK Album Charts and No 4 for 2 weeks in the U.S. Blues Album Charts

His 2018 album, ‘Almost Transparent Blues’ received accolades worldwide and reached No 1 for 5 weeks in the Roots Music Report UK Album Charts and Top 30 in the coveted Roots Music Report U.S. Blues Album Charts

Working with multi-instrumentalist E. D. Brayshaw, the double album ‘The Roads We Ride’ (Mar 2019) charted worldwide (#150 in the Roots Music Report Contemporary Blues Charts across all albums in the genre released in 2019). They received spectacular reviews and the track ‘The Ballad of Johnny & Louise’ also reaching No 1 in the prestigious Netherlands’ Hit-Tracks Top 100

In 2022, Wily started working with E D Brayshaw on two further album releases, ‘Some People Kill for Passion’ and ‘Drinking to Forget’ which will again feature their dark Americana, Gothic noir, swampy blues tales and soaring guitar solos which have heavily featured in his recent ‘live’ shows with both his Acoustic Band and his Electric Band

Wily Bo is also producing the theatre show, the music and the soundtrack album for ‘The Rattlin Bone Burlesque Theatre Show’, a theatre production that will open at a London theatre late 2023 (Covid permitting) and which also features as part of Wily Bo’s ‘VoodooVille’ collection of stories and albums…

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Recent Achievements:

‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’ long-listed in the ‘Scottish Album of the Year Awards’ in 2021

‘I Want to Know’ from ‘Tales of the Mescal Canyon Troubadours’ nominated for ‘Song of the Year’ in the Jazz & Blues category of Josie’s Music Awards 2021

‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’ nominated in the ‘Best Blues-Rock CD’ category the Independent Blues Awards, 2021

Two songs nominated for ‘Song of the Year, one in the Rock category and one in the Jazz & Blues category, in the Josie’s Music Awards, 2020

No 1 in the Roots Music Report UK Album Charts for 7 weeks with ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’, Aug-Oct 2020

No 4 in the Roots Music Report US Blues Album Charts for 2 weeks with ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’, Aug 2020

No 1 in the Roots Music Report US Contemporary Blues Album Charts for ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’, Aug 2020

‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’, ‘The Roads We Ride’, 'Almost Transparent Blues', ‘Moon Over Indigo’ and ‘Stone Cold Beautiful’ all achieved ‘CD of the Week’ status in the prestigious European based Hit-Tracks Top 100

Finalist in the ‘Best Male Vocalist’ category in the European Blues Awards, 2019

No 1 with ‘The Ballad of Johnny & Louise’ from 'The Roads We Ride' album in the Netherlands’ Hit-Tracks Top 100 charts, August 2019

Three songs synced to Award Winning U.S. TV Show ‘Bail Out’ Episode 6, ‘I Am Lorenzo Lamas’, 2019

Finalist in the ‘Best Contemporary Blues Band’ category in the Independent Blues Awards, 2019

Finalist in the ‘Best Blues (Traditional) Artist’ category in the LA Critic Awards, Dec 2018

Finalist in the European Blues Awards ‘2018 Album of the Year’ category with 'Almost Transparent Blues’

No 1 Album in the Roots Music Report UK Album Charts for 5 weeks with ‘Almost Transparent Blues’, July 2018

Top 30 Album in the Roots Music Report U.S. Blues Album Charts, July 2018

Inducted into the U.S. 'Blues Hall of Fame' as a 'Master Blues Artist' in Dec 2016

Finalist and Runner-up in the 2016 Banks Radio Australia Awards' 'Producer of the Year' category for 'Long Way to Heaven (Chicago Gospel Mix)'

Finalist and Runner-Up in the 2016 British Blues Awards in the ‘Kevin Thorpe Award for Songwriter’ category

No 1 for Christmas 2015 with ‘Who Do You Love (NY Chiller Mix)’ in the Netherlands’ Hit-Tracks Top 100 charts

Runner-Up in the 2015 British Blues awards in the ‘Blues Song’ category for ‘Long Way to Heaven’

Runner-Up in the 2015 Blues awards on Severn FM in the ‘Best Studio Album of 2015’ category for ‘A Long Way from Heaven…’

7th most played Blues Artist in 2015 across all of the UK Independent Blues Association Radio shows

Finalist in the ‘Best Male Vocalist’ category in the 2014 British Blues Awards

No 1 Blues, Jazz & Classic Rock artist in the US and Worldwide MySpace charts (Jan 2013)