Derrick Big Walker is a spiritual and physical traveler whose musical journey has brought him from the Oklahoma countryside to 60's San Francisco, on to Europe and beyond. Along the way, he's played with legends such as Lowell Fulson, Big Mama Thornton and Michael Bloomfield. His music strongly reflects his Native & African-American roots and is everything blues should be; soulful examinations of life's everyday problems with a tip of the hat to things much greater than ourselves. His latest album "Root Walking" is a collection of both new compositions and 17th & 18th century traditional poems set to music.