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http://www.walterboydonline.com These days, naming your debut album after an obscure unpronounceable island in the Indian Ocean is hardly a formula for commercial success. Nor is recording the material on a "four track analog tape deck" an industry standard. (Even the Beatles switched to eight track tape mid-way through their career.) But conventions are hardly a thing to be daunted by or even considered by Walter and his merry band of rag-tag musicians. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Walter Boyd moved to Jackson, Mississippi when he was 10 years of age where he was immersed in Delta blues music. Walter, "the King of the Six-String guitar," befriended Chicago rocker, Elliot Rosewater an art school drop-out, who had recently become disillusioned with the pop scene of the late eighties."I had dropped out of the Art Institute [of Chicago] to pursue guitar and had been making an OK living as "gun-for-hire" guitarist in the Chicago music scene," El...