Joseph Fidler Walsh is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter from the United States. He has played in three popular rock bands over the course of a career spanning more than five decades: the James Gang, the Eagles, and Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band. He played in the New Zealand band Herbs as well. He was a part of the brief supergroup The Best in the 1990s. Walsh has also found success as a solo performer and a prolific session musician, contributing to the records of numerous other artists. He was ranked number 54 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2011. After graduating from Kent State University, Walsh joined a number of regional Ohio bands in the middle of the 1960s before becoming known to a wider audience as a member of the James Gang, whose hit song "Funk #49" emphasized his abilities as a guitarist and singer. The James Gang got a management contract with BPI in Cleveland thanks to concert producer and artist manager Roger Abramson. In 1972, after splitting from the James Gang, he started the band Barnstorm with bassist Kenny Passarelli from Colorado and Joe Vitale, an Ohio-born acquaintance from college. Walsh had left Ohio and settled in Colorado. Although the band remained intact for three years and three albums, their output was promoted as Walsh solo work. The Eagles, a band who had just hired Walsh's producer, Bill Szymczyk, had notable cameo appearances on the final Barnstorm album, 1974's So What..

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