"Damn Fine Blues!" Original & classic delta blues featuring slide guitar and soulful vocals. A blues gumbo repertoire that can conjure up the ghosts of highway 61 & the delta blues experience. Austin "Walkin' Cane" is a blues singer, songwriter and slide guitarist that performs acoustic solo, duo & electric band sets. Walkin' Cane has traveled all over the world from New Orleans, Louisiana to the Gold Coast of Australia and has acquired various blues/instrumentalist awards over the years. Austin walked for ten years with a cane due to an arterial venous malformation at birth. While performing on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, a homeless man called out "Hey Walkin' Cane got some spare change for a brother?!" Austin took the jibe as his nickname. In 1996, after years of battling the inevitable, his left leg was amputated below the knee. A year after the surgery, he returned to the music scene stronger & without need of a cane. In 2002, Austin & Karen Starks were married at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee and began recording his 706 Union Ave. cd at the legendary studio immediately after the ceremony. "The thought of getting married & recording in the same room where many of my heroes took their first steps was incredible." Austin "Walkin' Cane" is proud to be sponsored by National Reso-Phonic Guitars, Dr. Z Amplifiers & Ernie Ball Strings.
2010 Blues Festivals
Dayton Winter Folk Festival - Dayton, OH - January 16, 2010
International Blues Challenge Festival - Memphis, TN - January 21-23, 2010
Blues On Broadbeach Festival - Gold Coast, Australia - May 27 - May 30, 2010
The Harp Folk Fest - Cleveland, OH - July 16, 2010
Scioto Garden & Arts Festival - Delaware, OH - July 17, 2010 - Noon - 3:00p.m.
Springfield Jazz & Blues Fest - Springfield, OH - July 17, 2010 - 5:00-8:00p.m.
Michelob Dayton Blues Festival - Dayton, OH - July 18, 2010 - 1:00-2:00p.m.
Kent State Blues Festival - Kent, OH - July 23, 2010 - 11:00-1:30a.m.
Lancaster Blues Festival - Lancaster, OH - July 30, 2010 - 12:15-1:15p.m. (electric band show)
Canal Winchester Blues & Ribs Fest - Canal Winchester, OH - August 6 2010 - 8:45-10:15pm
Wheeling Blues & Heritage Festival - Wheeling, WV - August 13 - 14, 2010
Ohio City Blues & Brews Fest - Whiskey Island, OH - August 21, 2010 - 9:00-10:30p.m. (electric band show)
Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival - Helena, AR - Oct. 9, 2010 - 2:40-3:40p.m. - Lockwood Stackhouse Stage (Formerly The King Biscuit Blues Festival)
2009 Festivals
FIMU Music Festival - Belfort, France - May 28-June 1, 2009
Ohio City Blues & Brews Fest - Whiskey Island, OH - August 21, 2010 - 9:00-10:30p.m. (electric band show)
Himalayan Blues Festival - Kathmandu, Nepal - October 8-11, 2009
Opened for or performed with:
Bobby "Blue" Bland, Buddy Guy, Gregg Allman, Johnny Winter, Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, John Mooney, Robert Jr. Lockwood, John Hammond Jr., Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Billy Branch, Jaimoe (Allman Bros.), Watermelon Slim, Henry Gray, John Primer, Rare Earth, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ted Nugent, BR549, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Arc Angels, Fruteland Jackson, Blind Mississippi Morris, Eric Sardinas, South Memphis String Band, Nappy Brown...



