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Robert "Bilbo" Walker packs his gear up into his white stretch limousine after performing at the Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi. Walker performs at the New Roxy club in downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi. He fired his drummer after this nights performance. Friends and family of Walker hang out at Club 2000 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. A Greyhound bus station in downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi. Walker's limousine parked in front of Wonderlight City–a juke joint opened by Walker on land grew up on, and often stays at when in Mississippi from his primary residence of Bakersfield, California. The rear quarter panel of the limousine reads, "Robert Bilbo Walker - Blues Legned". Walker pulls out the generators used to provide power to his juke joint, Wonderlight City, just outside of Clarksdale in Alligator, Mississippi. Walker's friend, Otis "TCB" Taylor, helps turn on the string lights that line the whole property at Wonderlight City. Somewhat of an urban myth amongst people living in the Clarksdale area–opening night of Wonderlight City had been hyped by Walker for over 5 years. Walker belts out the blues for the first time at Wonderlight City. There were no drumsticks at the opening of Wonderlight City so his wife went into the woods behind the silo-turned-juke-joint and found these. "When you see the grain silo on your right, make a left and go down the dirt road that cuts through the farm for about a mile and a half."–Walker giving the writer and I directions to his juke joint, Wonderlight City. A mural of Robert "Bilbo" Walker on the side of the tourist center in Alligator, Mississippi, where Walker grew up. Walker, with his zoot suit and gerry-curl wig, in front of Wonderlight City. Wonderlight City at dusk and Walker's immobile motorhome that he lives in when not at his primary home in Bakersfield, California. The interior of Wonderlight City. Otis "TCB" Taylor, Walker's wife Audrey, and the man himself playing for first time at Wonderlight City. A mural in downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi.

78-year-old bluesman, Robert "Bilbo" Walker.

Robert “Bilbo” Walker for Hemispheres Magazine

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