Walter Liniger

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Walter "Wale" Liniger (* 1949 in Kehrsatz ) is an American-Swiss blues musician and professor at the University of South Carolina .

Liniger was born and raised in Bern. Until then , Liniger emigrated to the USA in 1982 as a secondary teacher in Kehrsatz . Since 1993 he has been working as a blues professor at the University of South Carolina. Liniger learned from Etta Baker and James Thomas , among others . For his studies with James Thomas he received a scholarship from the National Endowment for the Arts .

Works (selection)

  • 1987 Gateway to the Delta (with James Son Thomas); WC Handy Award
  • 1989 Bottomlands (with James Son Thomas)
  • 1991 Goin 'South
  • 1992 Dedicated (with Checkerboard Blues Band)
  • 1993 conversations
  • 2000 Better Day
  • 2007 sidemeat
  • 2014 Sessions (with The Alligators)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/pop-und-jazz/Der-Schweizer-BluesProfessor-in-den-USA/story/12151503
  2. ↑ http://www.bluesprof.com/pressemappe/Pressemappe.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Liniger, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liniger, whales
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American-Swiss blues musician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Kehrsatz , Switzerland