[Cover photo credit to David McClister]

Nashville-based Soul singer Charles “Wigg” Walker has released “This Love Is Gonna Last,” the title track of his first new album in over a decade, which arrives on January 24, 2025. Walker blends vintage and modern flourishes for this song about “the power of a timeless romance.”  

This Love Is Gonna Last is a dedication to Walker’s late wife, who passed away earlier this year. Speaking about the title track, he explains:

My wife and I were together for 30 years. She was my backbone, always there for me. Through all the ups and downs, I always felt like our love was going to last, and it did.  

“This Love Is Gonna Last” follows the album’s debut single “(Feels Like) Things Are Comin’ Our Way,” which “looks toward a brighter future.”

The new album was recorded with longtime organist and creative partner Charles Treadway, guitarist Pat Bergeson (Chet Atkins, Peter Frampton), and drummer Pete Abbott (Average White Band, Tom Jones). While the album has a “joyful presentation,” there’s also “a recognition of time’s inexorable march and the lessons and losses that come with it” behind the songs.

More about Charles “Wigg” Walker:

Walker has packed several musical lifetimes into his nearly 70-year career. After releasing his first single on Ted Jarrett’s trailblazing Champion Records, he moved from Nashville to New York where he became frontman for the J.C. Davis Band, sharing bills with the likes of James Brown, Jackie Wilson, Etta James, Otis Redding and Sam Cooke. His first original group Little Charles and the Sidewinders became a staple of the New York nightclub scene in the 1960s. After more than a decade on the road, Walker took a staff writing role for Motown in the ’70s before eventually moving to Europe in the ’80s, where he continued to find enthusiastic audiences. The blues and R&B revival of the ’90s brought Walker back home to Nashville, and in the 2010s he released three albums as frontman of the deep funk group The Dynamites.