“there are 8 million stories in VoodooVille, these are just a few of them…”
Wily Bo Walker has created a world for his music, stories, film storyboards and artistic vision in the cinematic, film noir landscape of VoodooVille…
‘Moon Over Indigo’, Wily Bo’s release from 2015, contains an opium den of tales and characters highlighted on its album cover by the visionary illustrator and artist Zhana D’Arte. Schizophrenic tales of a man and his demons…
The double album, ‘The Roads We Ride’, a film noir storyboard and its soundtrack by Wily Bo & E D Brayshaw, follows the tales of three characters and the paths and choices they make. The beautiful artwork, again by Zhana D’Arte, illustrates elements of their fateful journeys. Three people, two paths, one story…
‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’ is an album collaboration with Danny Flam and a host of friends, artists and musicians from both sides of the Atlantic with yet another beautifully illustrated cover by Zhana D’Arte. Film noir stories, garnished with a touch of evil, weave their way through a world where Ava Gardner & Robert Mitchum would feel at home. Sleaze, sex, murder & mayhem. Cinematic tales, horn driven grooves and voodoo blues…
A companion album to ‘Ain’t No Man a Good Man’, ‘Tales of the Mescal Canyon Troubadours’ (aka ‘Troubadour Jams’), featuring more tales and drunken fables from the master of story-telling was released in February 2021. ‘Tales of the Mescal Canyon Troubadours’ sees Wily Bo weave his cinematic stories and revisit songs from his back-catalog, retelling them in a whole new groovalicious, roof liftin’, funkin’ and rockin’ blues style…
In 2023, Wily has started to premiere his next collection of songs with E D Brayshaw with the release of three tracks, ‘Live With Me’, ‘Montgomery’ and ‘Men Without Shadows’, taken from their ‘Letters from the Blue Moon Motel’ album. They are also working on a separate, and very different, ‘sister’ album ‘Some People Kill for Passion’. 2024 will see them performing their dark Americana, swampy blues ‘live’ shows at festivals and clubs in the U.K. and beyond
Wily Bo is also producing the music and the soundtrack album for ‘The Rattlin Bone Theatre Show’, a theatrical production that will open at a London Theatre late 2024
All roads lead to VoodooVille…
Although I have never crowd-funded my work, I have set up a virtual Tip-Jar to help me continue to employ and pay musicians, to commission and pay artists, studio engineers, distributors and all the other creative people involved across my productions
https://www.paypal.me/wilybowalker
Thank you for your continued support of me and, in turn, all of the people who are connected to the work I do
Wily Bo Walker 