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Radio 2,10 mins

BJ Cole interview with Johnnie Walker

Sounds of the 70s with Bob Harris

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In the 1970's he became a hugely in demand session player, lending his skills to classic records by Elton John, Humble Pie, Gerry Rafferty, Jimmy Webb, Joan Armatrading and Andy Fairweather Low amongst many others. Johnnie reminisces with BJ about some of these sessions, discusses the art of the slide and pedal steel guitar and asks what it's like to still be playing with the likes of Scott Walker, forty years on.

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