Bill Walker (95) Nashville Force as Conductor and Arranger

[robert kramer]

“That’s the thing with Nashville players,” he said in his interview at the Country Music Hall of Fame. “They all listen to each other and they join in the licks. It’s the stuff you can’t write. You can only give them the idea and let them go with it.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/arts ... -dead.html

Mr. Walker, left, in an undated photograph with Earl Poole Ball and Johnny Cash. In addition to working on “The Johnny Cash Show,” he wrote and conducted the arrangement for Mr. Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down.
”Credit...Joseph Cates via Earl Poole Ball

[John Sluszny]

[Bill Cunningham]

I remember the tv show as a little kid and Johnny would say “Good night, Bill Walker!”