If you like the Okefenokee Swamp and you don’t know Walter Parks, you’ll thank yourself for listening to him.
Here’s a video he did for the Library of Congress: Walter Parks: Haunting Swamp Hollers from Georgia.
Walter Parks was raised in Jacksonville, Florida. A consummate
guitarist, he formed the duo The Nudes in 1991, and spent much of
the 1990s touring with them around the US. The Nudes toured as a
supporting act for Woodstock legend Richie Havens, and after the
duo’s breakup Parks was enlisted as Havens’s guitarist and
right-hand man. With Havens, Walter performed Madison Square Garden,
Carnegie Hall and The Cannes Film Festival. With his trio Swamp
Cabbage, Walter has performed The Breminale Festival in Germany and
toured Spain twice. Through his deep interest in the music of his
native region, he has become an expert on the American Folklife
Center’s Francis Harper collection of folk music of the Okefenokee
Swamp region of Georgia. For the Homegrown 2020 series, he will
perform an entire program of material based on field recordings from
the AFC’s collections.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
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