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Little Walter - The Best Of Little Walter (SC 180g Mono Needledrop)

Track listing:
  1. My Babe 2:39
  2. Sad Hours 3:09
  3. You're So Fine 3:02
  4. Last Night 2:41
  5. Blues With A Feeling 3:03
  6. Can't Hold Out Much Longer 2:57
  7. Juke 2:41
  8. Mean Old World 2:52
  9. Off The Wall 2:47
  10. You Better Watch Yourself 3:02
  11. Blue Lights 3:14
  12. Tell Me Mama 2:44

Notes


If there's a blues harmonica player alive today who doesn't have a copy of this landmark album in their collection, they're either lying or had their copy of it stolen by another harmonica player. This 12-song collection is the one that every harmonica player across the board cut their teeth on. All the hits are here: "My Babe," "Blues with a Feeling," "You Better Watch Yourself," "Off the Wall," "Mean Old World" and the instrumental that catapulted him from the sideman chair in Muddy Waters' band to the top of the R&B charts in 1952, "Juke." Walter's influence to this very day is so pervasive over the landscape of the instrument that this collection of singles is truly: 1) one of the all-time greatest blues harmonica albums, 2) one of the all-time greatest Chicago blues albums, and 3) one of the first ten albums you should purchase if you're building your blues collection from the ground floor up.