7 Walkers (album)

7 Walkers
Studio album by
7 Walkers
ReleasedNovember 2, 2010 (2010-11-02)
Recorded2010
GenreRock
Length64:38
LabelResponse
ProducerPapa Mali
Bill Kreutzmann chronology
Trichromes
(2002)
7 Walkers
(2010)

7 Walkers is an album by the rock band 7 Walkers. The group's only album, it was released on CD and LP on November 2, 2010.[1]

The band 7 Walkers was formed in 2009 by former Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann and guitarist and singer Malcolm Welbourne, better known as Papa Mali, along with multi-instrumentalist Matt Hubbard and bass player Reed Mathis. In 2010, after most of the tracks for their debut album had been recorded, Mathis went back to touring with his main band, Tea Leaf Green, and was replaced by George Porter Jr., former bassist of the Meters. Porter appears on one track of the album.[2]

The lyrics for most of the songs on 7 Walkers were written by Robert Hunter, who wrote the words for many Grateful Dead songs.[3] Willie Nelson plays guitar and sings on one track, "King Cotton Blues".

According to the Austin Chronicle, "Kreutzmann refers to the music of 7 Walkers as 'swampadelic,' a natural meeting point between his West Coast psychedelia and Welbourne's voodoo-funk. Theirs is a saga of friendship and good fortune, set in the bayou but firmly entrenched in Austin."[4] The album is dedicated to the state of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans.

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