"I feel so driven and for the first time in my life I feel very happy with the material that's coming out of me. Full sail ahead for the future. Steady as she goes."

Liam Walker grew up in a small cottage in Grisdale Forest in the Lake District, days full of walking and playing outside alongside his woodsman father, nights spent full of stories and music. Nature and music were always his to explore and his ease with both is evident in this first set of tracks.

From his mother's scrapbooks and tales of pilgrimages as a young woman in the '60s and '70s to see the music icons of her day, to listening to his father play while evoking in great detail the gigs he'd attended (right down to the smell of the cloakroom in The Cavern Club in the '60s), Walker soaked up musical history along with the sounds themselves from the earliest age.

His own playing started with a homemade kit built around a snare drum his father found in a scrapyard. Liam lovingly refurbished it, added
kit around it and taught himself to play. This was followed by the gift of a steel-strung guitar from his Aunt Madeline which was his
first step towards becoming a singer-songwriter.

Birthdays and Christmasses saw more instruments arrive and front room recitals were a regular part of growing up, leading to the family joke that Liam could 'almost get a tune out of any instrument'. While his family may not have been financially rich it was a childhood full of happiness, love and music for Walker.

He first joined bands as a drummer during his teenage school years, with the family now living in Derbyshire, where Liam still resides today. And while he continued to play guitar, write music and sing in private he was happier behind a drumkit for public performances.
He learnt more about writing and performing as recent band Sons of Eagle toured the UK and enjoyed success. After the breakup of the band Liam focused on his own songwriting: 

"My writing, singing and performing soon took over. I love open turnings and started experimenting with melodies and putting lyrics about my life to the music and to my surprise songs started to come out."

After winning Chesterfield Acoustic Idol 2014 his confidence in himself has led him to form a new band with two old friends. Liam Walker is now working on his first collection of songs, personal and emotionally resonant modern folk, performed with warmth.

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