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Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Andrew Daly

“With Marvin Gaye, we could feel we were onto something extraordinary. We could feel the magic of Let’s Get It On from the beginning”: Meet Motown mainstay David T. Walker, the session guitarist behind some of music’s all-time classic albums

David T. Walker.

The life of a session player is never easy. Ask David T. Walker, who, at 82 years young, has appeared on dozens of albums as a gun for hire.

His origins are humble. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1941, his parents relocated to Los Angeles when he was seven, exposing him to a new world of music. 

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