Tenor saxman Junior Walker's rough-and-ready old-school R&B was a marked contrast with Motown's typically smooth, polished product. Walker's squealing gutbucket style was inspired by jump blues and early R&B, particularly players like Louis Jordan, Earl Bostic and Illinois Jacquet. Possessed of a raspy, untrained voice, Walker's singing nonetheless complemented the energy of his sax playing and he cut a wealth of danceable R&B for Motown during his heyday in the second half of the 1960s.