Little Walter The Best Of Little Walter (LP, 180g Vinyl, Ltd.)

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(WaxTimeRecords) 16 tracks. Harmonica virtuoso Little Walter was an integral part of bluesman... more

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Little Walter: The Best Of Little Walter (LP, 180g Vinyl, Ltd.)

(WaxTimeRecords) 16 tracks.

Harmonica virtuoso Little Walter was an integral part of bluesman Muddy Waters' music throughout most of the 1950s. Both as a sideman and as a bandleader, Little Walter revolutionized the sound of the blues harmonica by amplifying it, clamping a microphone to the harp as he played. His daring instrumental innovations were fresh, amazing and ahead of their time.

"The Best of Little Walter" was his debut LP: first released in 1957, this compilation of ten Little Walter songs that had appeared in the Top 10 of the Billboard R&B charts from 1952 to 1955, plus two B-sides. He is accompanied by masters such as Muddy Waters, Robert Lockwood Jr. and Willie Dixon.

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Interpret: Little Walter
Album titlle: The Best Of Little Walter (LP, 180g Vinyl, Ltd.)
Genre Blues
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
Label Wax Time Records
EAN: 8435723700197
weight in Kg 0.27

Little Walter - The Best Of Little Walter (LP, 180g Vinyl, Ltd.) LP 1
01	My Babe	Little Walter
02	Sad Hours	Little Walter
03	You`re So Fine	Little Walter
04	Last Night	Little Walter
05	Blues With A Feeling	Little Walter
06	Can`t Hold Out Much Longer	Little Walter
07	Mellow Down Easy (Bonus Track)	Little Walter
08	Rocker (Bonus Track)	Little Walter
09	Juke	Little Walter
10	Mean Old World	Little Walter
11	Off The Wall	Little Walter
12	You Better Watch Yourself	Little Walter
13	Blue Lights	Little Walter
14	Tell Me Mamma	Little Walter
15	Hate To See You Go (Bonus Track)	Little Walter
16	Roller Coaster (Bonus Track)	Little Walter

Little Walter Juke (Walter Jacobs) Checker 758 Little Walter Jacobs took the... more

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"Little Walter"

Little Walter

Juke

(Walter Jacobs)

Checker 758

Little Walter Jacobs took the humble harmonica to previously unimaginable levels. In his extraordinary hands, the instrument could swoop like a bird, growl like a bear, or boldly investigate jazz territory where no blues harpist dared go. What he did with amplification had never been envisioned by his fellow harmonica wailers, redefining the role of the harp in electric blues.

Marion Jacobs rolled into Chicago in the mid-'40s, though he'd already accrued plenty of experience in both music and life. Social Security has his birthdate as May 1, 1923, but his biographers peg the actual year as 1930. He was born in Marksville, Louisiana, first picked up a harp after hearing country performer Lonnie Glosson, and left home for New Orleans in his early teens, already fluent on his instrument. Both Sonny Boys were prime influences, the latter first-hand in Helena. Despite his youth, he played with Honeyboy Edwards, Sunnyland Slim, and Robert Jr. Lockwood, rambling through Memphis and St. Louis before settling in Chicago and playing Maxwell Street. There Walter met Jimmy Rogers.

"Sunnyland brought Walter to Chicago. He was a fantastic harmonica player," said Rogers. "He mostly was self-taught. He'd mostly do a lot of stuff just pretty well by himself, with no band. It was kind of hard to get him to settle down and play with a band. That was the hard part. But we worked him in. Got him in real good."

That band was headed by Muddy Waters. Walter joined it in the fall of '47 after making his first studio appearances behind Rogers as well as doing his own vocal for Bernard Abrams' tiny Ora Nelle Records on Maxwell Street. Walter sang the rocking I Just Keep Loving Her, one half of Ora Nelle's first 78. Then Waters gobbled him up.

"Me and Baby Face Leroy started to playing. He played guitar. We said, 'Hey, we need another piece!' And we went and found Walter and got him to come with us. Then Jimmy Rogers came back to the band," said Muddy. "We take Leroy off guitar, put him on drums, and Jimmy and myself played guitar and Walter played the harmonica." The greatest Chicago blues band of all was born, though Leonard Chess didn't allow Walter to play on Muddy's records until 1950. After that, Walter was integral to Waters' sound until an instrumental they cut on May 12, 1952 as Your Cat Will Play came out as Walter's first Checker single under the snappy name of Juke (Elga Edmonds was the drummer).

Juke sat at the top of the R&B charts for eight weeks, ensuring Walter's exit. He went looking for the Aces, comprised of guitarist brothers Louis and Dave Myers and drummer Fred Below. "All of a sudden," said the late Dave Myers, "I looked up and there was Little Walter in the house. I'm waitin' for Junior Wells to come to work, because he was late. I said, 'Where's Junior?' So Louis say, 'Well, I think Junior's gone.' So Muddy had sent for Junior, 'cause Walter had left him out there.

"He was looking for a band. He know his record was real strong, and we was the onliest guys that he could relate to." Now Walter was the man in charge.

Bill Dahl aus PLUG IT IN! TURN IT UP! Electric Blues 1939-2005 - The Definitive Collection! - "Plug It In! Turn It Up! - Electric Blues 1939 - 2005" auf Bear Family Records hat bei den Blues Music Awards in Memphis, Tenneessee, am 9. Mai den prestigetraechtigen Preis in der Kategorie 'Bestes historisches Album' erhalten. Die einzigartige, 12-teilige CD-Dokumentation vermittelt erstmals einen umfassenden Blick auf die Geschichte dieses bedeutsamen Genres, unabhaengig von Grenzen, die einzelne Plattenfirmen aufzeigen. Unser Autor Bill Dahl aus Chicago war vor Ort und nahm den Preis vor etwa 1.300 Bluesmusikern, Journalisten und Fans entgegen. Die Blues Music Awards, die alljaehrlich in Memphis fuer die besten Blues-Veroeffentlichungen verliehen werden, gelten als wichtigste Auszeichnung weltweit und werden auch als 'Oscars des Blues' bezeichnet..

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