Walter Parks


Walter Parks is a songwriter, vocalist, guitarist and bassist originally from Jacksonville, Florida now living in Jersey City, New Jersey. Walter Parks founded several musical groups, Wingtips, The Nudes, Swamp Cabbage and also toured as a sideman for Richie Havens.

Career

Between 1991 and 1999, Parks performed in the alternative-folk duo The Nudes with Stephanie Winters. The Nudes released three albums: The Nudes, Velvet Sofa, and Boomerang, and licensed recordings to an HBO series. Billboard magazine described the duo's first CD as unlike "anything else on the airwaves." The Nudes reunited under "Stephanie Winters and Walter Parks" to perform a reunion show at Grace Church in September 2017.
From 2001 to 2010, Parks toured with Richie Havens. Various venues included the Cannes Film Festival, Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, Monte Carlo Sporting Festival, Chiasso Festate, Solidays and Womad Festival. He played on Haven's albums Wishing Well, Grace of the Sun and Nobody Left to Crown.
When Parks was not touring with Havens, he formed the low country blues band Swamp Cabbage, active 2003 to present. The band has released three studio recordings, Honk, Squeal, Jive, and one live recording.
In 2011 Parks worked with the Florida Ballet on a joint project "Ballet de Marais" that debuted October 1, 2011 in Jacksonville, Florida. In 2015 and 2016 Parks researched music coming out of the Okefenokee Swamp in the 1940s and created a one-man show called "Swamp By Chandelier".
Parks digitally released his debut solo self-titled CD in December 2011 and a live solo acoustic CD, Cathedral, in September 2016.

Discography

;With The Nudes
;With Swap Cabbage