Arthur

ARTHUR R. WALTON, lead guitarist, bassist, composer, arranger, songwriter, studio engineer, producer, sound systems, and private instructor. His musical career began as a drummer but, as his interest grew in the guitar, he began private study with such greats as Chuck Wayne, Pat Martino and Frank Gambale (Chick Corea). Early on, Electronic Music Labs in Connecticut hired him to conduct clinics to demonstrate their new and innovative guitar synthesizer, the syntar, developed jointly with John McLaughlin. Subsequently, extensive studies were undertaken at The University of Hartford Hartt College of Music and The Musicians Institute in Hollywood from which he graduated. In 1985, he toured Europe with a commercial dance band (Data), and was hired to write jingles for NRK Norwegian radio. After returning to the states he opened Samurai Records, his indie record label, where he has arranged and produced albums for musicians in Los Angeles, Hawaii and Colorado. In 2007, he began a collaboration with Bobby Thursby, out of which has come two CD releases: "Grease In My Gravy", and "Burn In Hell Blues", and an upcoming third release, "Street Signs", all of which will have been published by his publishing company, Dancing Bones Publishing. Recently, Arthur was nominated as the ‘Producer of the Year’ for "I Want 2 Thank You," a single cut from his collaborative CD “Grease In My Gravy.“