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For the radio personality, see Little Walter DeVenne
Little Walter DeVenne

Little Walter DeVenne is an American radio personality who was for many years based in Boston. He now lives in New Hampshire and is the host of the syndicated retro oldies program "Little Walter's Time Machine" focusing on the pop , doo-wop, blues, R&B and early rock n' roll hits of the 1950s and early to mid 1960s presented in the high energ...
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Little Walter (born Marion Walter Jacobs in Marksville, LA, and raised in Alexandria, LA) (May 1 1930 - February 15 1968) was a blues

Blues

Harmonica

The harmonica is a free reed aerophone wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes....
player, and guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
.

Jacobs is generally included among blues music greats—his revolutionary harmonica

Harmonica

The harmonica is a free reed aerophone wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes....
technique has earned comparisons to Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
and Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
in its impact. There were great musicians before and after, but Jacobs' virtuosity and musical innovations reached heights of expression never previously imagined, and fundamentally altered many listeners' expectations of what was possible on blues harmonica.

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Little Walter (born Marion Walter Jacobs in Marksville, LA, and raised in Alexandria, LA) (May 1 1930 - February 15 1968) was a blues

Blues

Harmonica

The harmonica is a free reed aerophone wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes....
player, and guitarist

Guitarist

Harmonica

Charlie Parker

Jimi Hendrix

Sideman

A sideman is a professional musician who is hired to perform or record with a musical band of which he is not a regular member. Sidemen are generally required to be adaptable to many different music genre of music, and so able to fit smoothly into the group in which they are currently playing....
category on March 10,2008, making him the only artist ever to be inducted specifically for his work as a harmonica

Harmonica

The harmonica is a free reed aerophone wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes....
player.

Biography

Early years

After quitting school by the age of 12, Jacobs left rural Louisiana

Louisiana

The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
and travelled around working odd jobs and busking on the streets of New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans metropolitan area metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state....
, Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
, Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
, Helena

Helena, Arkansas

Helena is the eastern portion of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, a city in Phillips County, Arkansas. As of the United States Census 2000, this portion of the city population was 6,323....
, Arkansas

Arkansas

Arkansas is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States of the United States. Arkansas shares a border with six states, with its eastern border largely defined by the Mississippi River....
, and St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St....
, Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
, and honing his musical skills with Sonny Boy Williamson II

Sonny Boy Williamson II

Sunnyland Slim

Albert "Sunnyland Slim" Luandrew , was a blues pianist who was born in the Mississippi Delta and later moved to Chicago, to contribute to that city's post-war scene as a center for blues music....
, and Honeyboy Edwards, among others.

Arriving in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
in 1945, he occasionally found work as a guitarist but garnered more attention for his already highly developed harmonica work. (According to fellow Chicago bluesman Floyd Jones

Floyd Jones

Floyd Jones was an United States blues singer, guitarist and songwriter, who is significant as one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after the Second World War....
, Little Walter's first recording was an unreleased demo on which Walter played guitar backing Jones.) Jacobs grew frustrated with having his harmonica drowned out by electric guitar

Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
ists, and adopted a simple, but previously little-used method: He cupped a small microphone in his hands along with his harmonica, and plugged the microphone into a guitar or public address amplifier

Amplifier

Generally, an amplifier or simply amp, is any machine that changes, usually increases, the amplitude of a Signal . The "signal" is usually voltage or current....
. He could thus compete with any guitarist's volume. Unlike other contemporary blues harp players, such as the original Sonny Boy Williamson

Sonny Boy Williamson I

Sonny Boy Williamson was an United States blues harmonica player, and the first to use the name Sonny Boy Williamson....
and Snooky Pryor

Snooky Pryor

Snooky Pryor was an United States blues harp player. He claimed to have pioneered the now-common method of playing amplified harmonica by cupping a small microphone in his hands along with the harmonica, although his earliest records in the late 1940s he did not utilize this method....
, who had been using this method only for added volume, Little Walter utilized amplification to explore radical new timbre

Timbre

In music, timbre is the quality of a musical note or sound or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices or musical instruments....
s and sonic effects previously unheard from a harmonica Madison Deniro wrote a small biographical piece on Little Walter stating that "He was the first musician of any kind to purposely use electronic distortion."

Success

Jacobs made his first released recordings in 1947 for Bernard Abram's tiny Ora-Nelle label, which operated out of the back room of the Abrams' Maxwell Radio and Records store in the heart of the Maxwell Street

Maxwell Street

Maxwell Street is an east-west street in Chicago, Illinois that intersects with Halsted Street just south of Roosevelt Road. It runs at 1330 South in the numbering system running from 500 West to 1126 West....
market area in Chicago. These and several other early Little Walter recordings, like many blues harp recordings of the era, owed a strong stylistic debt to pioneering blues harmonica player Sonny Boy Williamson I

Sonny Boy Williamson I

Sonny Boy Williamson was an United States blues harmonica player, and the first to use the name Sonny Boy Williamson....
(John Lee Williamson.) Little Walter joined Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield , better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues"....
' band in 1948, and by 1950 he was playing on Muddy's recordings for Chess Records

Chess Records

Chess Records was an United States record label based in Chicago, Illinois. It specialized in blues, R&B, gospel music, early rock and roll, and occasional jazz releases....
; for years after his departure from Muddy's band in 1952, Little Walter continued to be brought in to play on his recording sessions, and as a result his harmonica is featured on most of Muddy's classic recordings from the 1950s. As a guitarist, Little Walter recorded for the small Parkway label with Muddy Waters and Baby Face Leroy Foster (reissued on CD as "The Blues World of Little Walter" from Delmark Records

Delmark Records

Delmark Records is one of the oldest independent record label in the United States. It records jazz and blues and is one of jazz's best-known imprints....
in 1993), as well as on a session for Chess backing pianist Eddie Ware; his guitar work was also featured occasionally on early Chess sessions with Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield , better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues"....
and Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers was a blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s....
.

Jacobs' own career took off when he recorded as a bandleader for Chess' subsidiary label Checker Records

Checker Records

Checker Records was started in 1952 as a subsidiary of Chess Records. Like Cadet Records it stopped releasing records around 1971.Its most known artists include young Aretha Franklin, Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, J....
on 12 May 1952; the first completed take of the first song attempted at his debut session was a massive hit, spending eight weeks in the #1 position on the Billboard magazine R&B charts - the song was "Juke

Juke (song)

Juke is a harmonica instrumental recorded by then 22 year old Chicago bluesman Little Walter Jacobs in 1952. Although Little Walter had been recording sporadically for small Chicago labels over the previous five years, and had appeared on Muddy Waters' records for the Chess label since 1950, Juke was Little Walter's first hit, and it was the...
", and it was the only harmonica instrumental ever to become a #1 hit on the R&B charts. (Three other harmonica instrumentals by Little Walter also reached the Billboard R&B top 10: "Off the Wall" reached #8, "Roller Coaster" achieved #6, and "Sad Hours" reached the #2 position while Juke was still on the charts.) "Juke" was the biggest hit to date for Chess and its affiliated labels, and secured Walter's position on the Chess artist roster for the next decade. Little Walter scored fourteen top-ten hits on the Billboard

Billboard

Billboard is a weekly United States magazine devoted to the music industry. It maintains several internationally recognized Record chart that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis....
R&B charts between 1952 and 1958, including two #1 hits (the second being "My Babe

My Babe

"My Babe" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon for Little Walter. Released in 1955 on Checker Records, a subsidiary of Chess Records, the song was the only Dixon composition ever to become a no....
" in 1955), a feat never achieved by his former boss Waters, nor by his fellow Chess blues artists Howlin' Wolf

Howlin' Wolf

Chester Arthur Burnett , better known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, "no one could match [Howlin' Wolf] for the singular...
and Sonny Boy Williamson II

Sonny Boy Williamson II

Aleck "Rice" Miller , a.k.a. Aleck Ford, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Willie Williamson, Willie Miller, "Little Boy Blue", "The Goat" and "Footsie," was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter....
. Following the pattern of "Juke", most of Little Walter's single releases in the 1950s featured a vocal on one side, and an instrumental on the other. Many of Walter's numbers were originals which he or Chess A&R

A&R

Artists and Repertoire is the division of a record label that is responsible for talent scouting and the artistic development of recording artists....
man Willie Dixon

Willie Dixon

William James "Willie" Dixon was a well-known United States blues bassist, singing, songwriter, arranger and record producer. His songs, including "Little Red Rooster", "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Evil ", "Spoonful", "Back Door Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "I Ain't Superstitious", "My Babe", "Wang Dang Doodle", and "Bring It on Home"...
wrote or adapted and updated from earlier blues themes. In general his sound was more modern and uptempo than the popular Chicago blues of the day, with a jazzier conception than other contemporary blues harmonica players.

Jacobs frequently appeared on records as a harmonica sideman behind others in the Chess stable of artists, including Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers was a blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s....
, John Brim

John Brim

John Brim was a Chicago blues guitarist, songwriter and blues harp player. He wrote and sound recording and reproduction the original "Ice Cream Man" that David Lee Roth cover version on Diamond Dave , and Van Halen also covered on their first album....
, Rocky Fuller, Memphis Minnie

Memphis Minnie

Memphis Minnie McCoy-Lawler was an United States Blues guitarist, vocalist, and composer....
, The Coronets, Johnny Shines

Johnny Shines

Johnny Shines was an United States blues singer and guitarist.He was born John Ned Shines in Frayser, Memphis, Tennessee. He spent most of his childhood in Memphis, Tennessee playing slide guitar at an early age in local ?jukes? and for tips on the streets....
, Floyd Jones, Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
, and Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein

Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein was an United States poet, songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books....
, and on other record labels backing Otis Rush

Otis Rush

Otis Rush is a blues music musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound, jazz-style arpeggios and long bent notes....
, Johnny Young, and Robert Nighthawk.

Jacobs suffered from alcoholism

Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions to describe the detrimental effects of alcohol intake.In common and historic usage, alcoholism refers to any condition that results in the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages despite health problems and negative social consequences....
, and had a notoriously short temper, which led to a decline in his fame and fortunes beginning in the late 1950s, although he did tour Europe

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
twice, in 1964 and 1967. (The long-circulated story that he toured the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
with The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
in 1964 has since been refuted by Keith Richards

Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
). The 1967 European tour, as part of the American Folk Blues Festival

American Folk Blues Festival

The American Folk Blues Festival was a music festival that toured Europe beginning in 1962.Germany jazz publicist Joachim-Ernst Berendt first had the idea of bringing original African-American blues performers to Europe....
, resulted in the only film/video footage of Little Walter performing to be released. Footage of Little Walter backing Hound Dog Taylor

Hound Dog Taylor

Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor was an United States blues guitarist and singer....
and Koko Taylor

Koko Taylor

Koko Taylor sometimes spelled KoKo Taylor is an United States blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." She is known primarily for her rough and powerful human voice and traditional blues stylings....
on a television program

Television program

A television program , television programme , or television show is something that people watch on television. It may be a one-off broadcast or, more usually, part of a periodically recurring television series....
in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,153,615 . Copenhagen is situated on the Islands of Zealand and Amager....
, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
on 11 October 1967 was released on DVD

DVD

DVD, also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc,"is a popular optical disc data storage device media format. Its main uses are video and data storage....
in 2004. Video of a recently discovered TV appearance in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
during this tour, showing Little Walter performing his songs My Babe

My Babe

"My Babe" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon for Little Walter. Released in 1955 on Checker Records, a subsidiary of Chess Records, the song was the only Dixon composition ever to become a no....
, Mean Old World, and others was released on DVD in Europe in January 2009, and is the only known footage of Little Walter singing his own songs; other TV appearances in the UK

United Kingdom

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
have been documented, but no footage of these has been found.

Death

A few months after returning from his second European tour, he was involved in a fight while taking a break from a performance at a nightclub on the South Side of Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
. The relatively minor injuries sustained in this altercation aggravated and compounded damage he had suffered in previous violent encounters, and he died in his sleep at the apartment of a girlfriend at 209 E. 54th St. in Chicago early the following morning. The official cause of death indicated on his death certificate was "Coronary thrombosis

Coronary thrombosis

Coronary thrombosis is a form of thrombosis affecting the coronary circulation. It is associated with stenosis subsequent to clotting. The condition is considered as a type of ischaemic heart disease....
" (a blood clot in the heart); evidence of external injuries was so minimal that a police reported that his death was of "unknown or natural causes"; no external injuries were noted on the death certificate. His body was buried at St. Mary's Cemetery in Evergreen Park, IL on February 22, 1968.

Legacy

His legacy has been enormous: he is widely credited by blues historians as the artist primarily responsible for establishing the standard vocabulary for modern blues

Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
and blues rock harmonica players. - His influence can be heard in varying degrees in virtually every modern blues harp player who came along in his wake, from blues greats such as Junior Wells

Junior Wells

Junior Wells , born Amos Blakemore, was a Blues music vocalist and harmonica player based in Chicago who was famous for playing with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison among others....
, James Cotton

James Cotton

James Cotton , is an United States blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter who is the bandleader for the James Cotton Blues Band. He also writes songs alone, and his solo career continues to this day....
, George "Harmonica" Smith, Carey Bell

Carey Bell

Carey Bell was an American musician who played the harmonica in the musical style of Chicago blues. Bell played harp and bass for other blues icons for decades, including Earl Hooker, Robert Nighthawk, Lowell Fulson, Eddie Taylor,Louisiana Red and Jimmy Dawkins....
, and Big Walter Horton

Big Walter Horton

Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey" Horton was an American blues harmonica player.Born Walter Horton in Horn Lake, Mississippi, he was playing a harmonica by the time he was five years old....
, through modern-day masters Kim Wilson

Kim Wilson

File:KimWilson1996.jpgKim Wilson is a United States blues singer and harmonica player. He is best known singing lead vocals with the The Fabulous Thunderbirds on two hit record songs of the 1980s; "Tuff Enuff" and "Wrap It Up"....
, Rod Piazza

Rod Piazza

Rod Piazza is a blues harmonica player, singer and band leader. He has been the driving force behind Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers since 1979, along with his wife Honey Piazza on piano and upright bass player Bill Stuve, guitarists such as Alex Schultz and Rick Holmstrom and drummer Jimmy Bott....
, William Clarke

William Clarke (musician)

William Clarke was an American blues harmonica player. He was chiefly associated with the Chicago blues style of amplified harmonica, but also incorporated elements of soul jazz and swing jazz into his playing....
, and Charlie Musselwhite

Charlie Musselwhite

Charlie Musselwhite is an American blues-harp player and bandleader, one of the non-black bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield....
, in addition to blues-rock crossover artists such as Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield was an United States blues vocalist, harmonica player who gained international recognition in part, as one of the early acts performing during the Summer of Love, in Woodstock, New York....
and John Popper

John Popper

John Popper is an United States musician and songwriter.He is most famous for his role as frontman of rock band Blues Traveler performing harmonica, guitar and lead vocals....
of Blues Traveler

Blues Traveler

Blues Traveler is an American rock music band, formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. The band has been influenced by a variety of genres, including blues-rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, soul music, and Southern rock....
.

His 1952 instrumental Juke
Juke

Juke can refer to:* Juke , a harmonica instrumental recorded by Little Walter Jacobs* Juke house, a form of electronic dance music originating from Chicago...
was selected as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll is an unordered list of 500 songs, created by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, that they believe have been most influential in shaping the course of rock and roll, though some of them belong to different styles even after the consolidation of rock music ....
, and on 19 December 2007, was inducted into the Grammy Awards Hall of Fame as an "example of recorded musical masterpieces that have significantly impacted our musical history"

The jazz-funk

Jazz-funk

Jazz-funk is a sub-genre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat , electrified sounds, and often, the presence of the first electronic analog synthesizers....
supergroup

Supergroup (music)

In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups." Supergroups tend to be short-lived, often lasting only for an album or two....
, Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood

Medeski Martin & Wood

Medeski Martin & Wood is an United States jazz trio formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboard instrument and piano, Billy Martin on Drum kit and Percussion instrument, and Chris Wood on double bass and bass guitar....
included a composition entitled "Little Walter Rides Again", inspired by Jacobs, on their 2006 CD

Compact Disc

A Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store Data , originally developed for storing digital audio. The CD, available on the market since October 1982, remains the standard physical medium for sale of commercial Sound recording and reproduction to the present day....
, Out Louder.

A five-CD box set containing all of Little Walter's tracks recorded for Checker Records

Checker Records

Checker Records was started in 1952 as a subsidiary of Chess Records. Like Cadet Records it stopped releasing records around 1971.Its most known artists include young Aretha Franklin, Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, J....
between 1952 and 1967 that are known to exist is being prepared for release in March 2009 on the Hip-O Select label.

Discography

Albums

The Blues World of Little Walter-(1950 recordings with Muddy Waters on Parkway/Delmark)

1. I Just Keep Loving Her 2. Muscadine Blues 3. Rollin' And Tumblin' (part 1) 4. Rollin' And Tumblin' (part 2) 5. Boll Weevil 6. Bad Acting Woman 7. Red Headed Woman 8. Moonshine Blues

Best Of Little Walter
Best of Little Walter

Best Of Little Walter is an album by Blues music musician Little Walter....
Best of Little Walter Vol. 2
Confessin' The Blues
Hate To See You Go
Boss Blues Harmonica
Little Walter and Otis Rush "Live in Chicago"
Super Blues: Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Little Walter
Blues With A Feeling - Chess Collectables Vol. 3

Disc: 1 1. Juke (Alternate) 2. Can't Hold Out Much Longer (Alternate) 3. Blue Midnight (Alternate) 4. Fast Boogie (Alternate) 5. Driftin' 6. Tonight With A Fool 7. That's It 8. Blues With A Feeling (Alternate) 9. My Kind Of Baby 10. Last Boogie 11. Come Back Baby 12. I Love you So (Oh Baby) 13. Big Leg Mama 14. Mercy Babe A/K/A My Babe 15. Thunderbird 16. Crazy For My baby 17. Can't Top Lovin' You 18. Who 19. Flying Saucer 20. Teenage Beat Disc: 2 1. Temperature (Alternate) 2. Shake Dancer 3. Ah'w Baby (Alternate) 4. Rock Botton (Alternate) 5. You Gonne be Sorry (Someday Baby) 6. Baby 7. My Baby Is Sweeter (Alternate) 8. Crazy Mixed Up World (Alternate) 9. Worried Life Blues 10. Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Alternate) 11. Mean Old Frisco (Alternate) 12. One Of These Mornings 13. Blue And Lonesome (Alternate) 14. Me And Piney Brown 15. Break It Up 16. Going Down Slow 17. You're Sweet 18. You Don't Know 19. I'm A Businessman 20. Chicken Shack

Classics 1947 - 1953

1. Ora Nelle Blues 2. I Just Keep Loving Her 3. Juke 4. Can't Hold On Much Longer 5. Blue Midnight 6. Boogie 7. Mean Old World 8. Sad Hours 9. Fast Boogie 10. Don't Need No Horse 11. Don't Have to Hunt No More 12. Crazy Legs 13. Tonight With a Fool 14. Off the Wall 15. Tell Me Mama 16. Blues With a Feeling 17. Quarter to Twelve 18. Last Boogie 19. Too Late 20. Fast Boogie 21. Lights Out 22. Fast Large One 23. You're So Fine 24. My Kind of Baby

Classics 1947 - 1953

1. Driftin' Blues 2. That's It [Instrumental] 3. Come Back Baby 4. Rocker [Instrumental] 5. I Love You So 6. Oh Baby 7. I Got to Find My Baby 8. Big Leg Mama [Instrumental] 9. My Babe (Mercy Babe) 10. Last Night 11. You'd Better Watch Yourself 12. Blue Light [Instrumental] 13. Last Night 14. Mellow Down Easy 15. Instrumental 16. Thunder Bird [Instrumental] 17. My Babe 18. Roller Coaster [Instrumental] 19. I Got to Go 20. I Hate to See You Go 21. Little Girl, Little Girl 22. Crazy for My Baby 23. Can't Stop Lovin' You

The Chess Years 1952-1963 - 4 CD-Box

101. Juke 102. Can't Hold Out Much Longer 103. Blue Midnight 104. Boogie 105. Mean Old World 106. Sad Hours 107. Don't Have To Hurt No More 108. Crazy Legs 109. Tonight With A Fool 110. Off The Wall 111. Tell Me Mama 112. Quarter To Twelve 113. Blues With A Feeling 114. Last Boogie 115. Too Late 116. Fast Boogie 117. Light Out 118. Fast Large One 119. You're So Fine 120. Come Back Baby 121. Rocker 122. Oh Baby 123. I Got To Find My Baby 124. Big Leg Mama 201. Mercy Babe 202. Last Night 203. You'd Better Watch Yourself 204. Blue Eight 205. Last Night 206. Mollow Down Easy 207. Thunderbird 208. My Babe 209. Roller Coaster 210. I Got To Go 211. Little Girl 212. Crazy For Me Baby 213. Cant't Stop Loving You 214. Hate To See You Go 215. One More Chance With You 216. Who 217. Boom, Boom Out Goes The Lights 218. It Ain't Right 219. Flying Saucer 220. It's Too Late Brother 221. Teenage Beat 222. Take Me Back 223. Just A Feeling 301. Nobody But You 302. Temperature 303. Shake Dancer 304. Everybody Needs Somebody 305. Temperature 306. Ah'm Baby 307. I Had My Fun 308. The Toddle 309. Confessin' The Blues 310. Key To The Highway 311. Rock Bottom 312. You Gonna Be Sorry 313. Baby 314. My Baby Sweeter 315. Crazy Mixed Up World 316. Worried Life 317. Everything's Going To Be Alright 318. Mean Old Frisco 319. Back Track 320. One Of These Mornings 321. Blue And Lonesome 322. Me And Piney Brown 323. Break It Up 324. Goin' Down Slow 401. I Don't Play 402. As Long As I Have You 403. You Don't Know 404. Just Your Fool 405. Up The Line 406. I'm A Business Man 407. Dead President 408. Southern Feeling 409. Juke ( Alternate Take) 410. Blue Midnight (Alternate Take) 411. Off The Wall (Alternate Take) 412. My Kind Of Baby 413. I Love You So 414. Instrumental 415. Temperature ( Take 30) 416. Temperature ( Take 35-36) 417. Ah'w Baby (Alternate Take) 418. Rock Bottom (Alternate Take) 419. Walkin' On (Alternate Take) 420. Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Take 1) 421. Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Alternate Take) 422. Mean Old Frisco ( Take 1-2) 423. Blue And Lonesome ( Take 1) 424. My Babe

The Essential Little Walter - Doppel-CD

Disk: 1 1. Juke 2. Can't Hold Out Much Longer 3. Boogie 4. Blue Midnight [Alternate Take] 5. Mean Old World 6. Sad Hours 7. Don't Need No Horse 8. Tell Me Mama 9. Off the Wall 10. Quarter to Twelve 11. Blues With a Feeling 12. Too Late 13. Fast Boogie 14. Lights Out 15. Fast Large One 16. You're So Fine 17. Oh Baby 18. I Got to Find My Baby 19. Last Night [First Version] 20. You Better Watch Yourself 21. Mellow Down Easy 22. My Babe 23. Roller Coaster 24. Little Girl Disk: 2 1. Hate to See You Go 2. Boom, Boom Out Goes the Lights 3. It Ain't Right 4. It's Too Late Brother 5. Just a Feeling 6. Ah'w Baby 7. I've Had My Fun [Alternate Take] 8. Confessin' the Blues 9. Key to the Highway 10. Walkin' On 11. You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby) [Alternate Take] 12. Crazy Mixed up World 13. Worried Life Blues 14. Everything's Gonna Be Alright 15. Back Track 16. Blue and Lonesome 17. I Don't Play 18. As Long as I Have You 19. Just Your Fool 20. Up the Line 21. Southern Feeling 22. Dead Presidents

Anmerkungen: Die Serie "Classics" wurde anscheinend nicht fortgeführt. "The Essential" und "The Chess Years" sind sehr selten und dementsprechend teuer. Die erste "Classics"-CD und die "Chess Years" geben einen relativ kompletten Überblick über Little Walters Werk. Unverständlicherweise gibt es bis heute, 40 Jahre nach seinem Tod, noch keine komplette Werksausgabe. Die Doppel-CD "Blues With A Feeling" enthält viele Alternate-Takes (Achtung! Es existiert auch eine Einzel-CD mit diesem Titel!). Hoffe, ich konnte etwas Licht ins Dunkel bringen. Blues & Gruß, Andi Saitenhieb

Little Walter

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