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Release Date: 24 January 2025
Label: Blues Joint
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436563185885
Description
16 tracks - limited edition 180g vinyl pressing.
Both as a sideman and bandleader, Little Walter revolutionized the sound of blues harmonica through amplification, clasping a mike to the harp as he played. While he may not have been the first bluesman to play amplified harmonica, he explored its possibilities most fully.
This LP puts together 16 remastered studio tracks Little Walter made as a leader for the Chess Records subsidiary label Checker, originally released between 1952 and 1962. Featuring Muddy Waters, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Willie Dixon, and Otis Spann, among others.
"These sides make consistently absorbing listening. These '50s sessions defined what electric blues was and what it could do, music that today is still invigorating and essential." - ***** AllMusic
Tracklisting
Blind Gary Davis
Snooks Eaglin
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Little Walter
Son House
Leadbelly
Otis Rush
Lightnin' Hopkins & Sonny Terry
Little Walter
Various Artists
Little Walter
Little Walter
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Little Walter
