Octogenarian Soul Singer Charles “Wigg” Walker
Pronounces First Album in Over a Decade
This Love Is Gonna Final
Out January 24
Blissful New Single “(Feels Like) Issues Are Comin’ Our Manner”
Revels in a Brilliant Future
Oct. 31, 2024 – As we speak, Nashville-based soul singer Charles “Wigg” Walker has introduced This Love Is Gonna Final, his first new album in over a decade, due out January 24. Almost 70 years into his exceptional profession, Walker returns with a masterclass assortment of timeless R&B about love, belief and dedication. Together with the announcement, Walker shares his new single “(Feels Like) Issues Are Comin’ Our Manner,” a blissful slice of optimism that appears towards a brighter future.
“This music sums up this entire album for me actually,” says Walker in regards to the new single. “After all of the locations I’ve been and all of the bands I’ve carried out with and all of the recordings I’ve made, it looks like issues are lastly beginning to come my means.”
Recorded with longtime organist and inventive associate Charles Treadway, This Love Is Gonna Final shifts seamlessly between definitive eras of soul because it bounces from Philly and Detroit to Memphis and extra. The album’s wealthy preparations are owed to Walker’s chemistry with its core trio – Treadway, guitarist Pat Bergeson (Chet Atkins, Lyle Lovett), and drummer Pete Abbott (Common White Band, Tom Jones). Regardless of the file’s joyful presentation, there’s an insightful recognition of time’s inexorable march and the teachings and losses that include it. This Love Is Gonna Final is a dedication to Walker’s late spouse, who handed away earlier this yr. The result’s the form of album he’s been constructing in the direction of for his complete profession, a showcase not just for his unforgettable vocals but in addition for the unparalleled emotional vary that’s outlined his work for greater than half a century.
This Love Is Gonna Final marks Walker’s first launch since his time fronting The Dynamites within the early 2010s. Over the course of three albums, the deep funk group launched Walker’s “hard-won soul singing” (American Songwriter) to a brand new era, with NPR deeming them as “a celebration of resurrection.”
Walker has packed a number of musical lifetimes into his lauded profession. After releasing his first single on Ted Jarrett’s trailblazing Champion Data, he moved from Nashville to New York the place he turned a frontman for the J.C. Davis Band, sharing payments with the likes of James Brown, Jackie Wilson, Etta James, Otis Redding and Sam Cooke. Walker’s first personal group Little Charles and the Sidewinders turned a staple of the New York nightclub scene within the Nineteen Sixties and would go on to file for Chess and Decca Data. After greater than a decade on the highway, Walker took a workers writing function for Motown within the ’70s earlier than ultimately shifting to Europe within the ’80s, the place he continued to search out enthusiastic audiences. The blues and R&B revival of the ’90s finally introduced Walker again house to Nashville.
Now, along with his unflagging religion and dedication because the bedrock of This Love Is Gonna Final, Walker might lastly be getting his due. “I really feel extra appreciated now than ever,” he says. “There’s one thing totally different about this album. It simply feels proper.”
Photograph Credit score: David McClister
This Love Is Gonna Final Tracklist
1. This Love Is Gonna Final
2. No matter It Is
3. (Feels Like) Issues Are Comin’ Our Manner
4. Midnight Rendezvous
5. Serendipity
6. If I Had Recognized
7. I Like ‘Em Like That
8. That Form of Love
9. It’s About Belief
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