Researching Uncle Walker
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 100253 people with the Walker surname? In that year Walker was ranked number 12 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Uncle Walker on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Uncle Walker and the Walker Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 128048 people with the Walker surname in the UK? Walker is now ranked number 12 for popularity in the UK. |
Walker Genealogy Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 665376 people with the Walker surname in the USA? Walker is ranked number 22 for popularity in the USA. |
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Uncle Homer Walker
John "Uncle" Homer Walker (February 15, 1898 or c. 1904 – January 4, 1980) was an American Appalachian banjo player who was popular during the folk revival of the 1960s and 1970s. Prior to his death, he was one of the last musicians to practice the old-time Appalachian style.
Walker was born in Mercer County, West Virginia into a musical family: his father, a sharecropper, was a banjo player, two sisters learned the mandolin and guitar, and Walker's two brothers played guitar. His grandfather, himself a former slave, taught Walker the clawhammer banjo playing style, once a fairly common pre-blues component found in the Appalachian Mountains region. In the 1920s, Walker began performing, sometimes accompanied by a mandolin or fiddle player, at square dances, presenting a repertoire of old-time black spirituals and folk tunes passed along to him from his grandfather like "Steal Away", "Cripple Creek", "John Henry", and "Old Joe Clark". He lived most of his adult life in Glen Lyn working as a laborer and farmhand.
During the folk revival of the 1960s and 1970s, Walker appeared at numerous folk festivals such as John Henry Folk Festival, the Vandalia Gathering in Charleston, the Smithsonian Institution’s Festival of American Folklife. Only during his appearances at these festivals, Walker claimed, did he first start incorporating the blues into his repertoire. In 1977, Walker was the subject of the documentary film Banjo Man, narrated by bluesman Taj Mahal.
He died in Princeton, West Virginia. Walker's recordings are featured on the compilation albums Virginia Traditions - Non-Blues Secular Black Music and Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia.
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