Little Walter - His Best : The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
Little Walter - His Best : The Chess 50th Anniversary

Little Walter - His Best : The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection

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Product NameLittle Walter - His Best : The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
ManufacturerMca
Product Number MPN076732938423
Retail Price $11.98
EAN-130076732938423
EAN-1400076732938423
UPC076732938423
Specifications 
Release Date1997-06-17
FormatAudio CD, CD
Artist(s)Little Walter
AlbumChess, His Best, His Best : The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
Tracks
  1. Juke
  2. Can't Hold Out Much Longer
  3. Mean Old World
  4. Sad Hours
  5. Tell Me Mama
  6. Off the Wall
  7. Blues With a Feeling
  8. You're So Fine
  9. Too Late
  10. Last Night
  11. Mellow Down Easy
  12. My Babe
  13. Roller Coaster
  14. Hate to See You Go
  15. It Ain't Right
  16. Boom, Boom Out Goes the Lights
  17. Confessin' the Blues
  18. Key to the Highway
  19. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
  20. Just Your Fool
Num. of Items1
Record LabelChess, Mca
GenreChicago Blues
Deal first added on:17-January-2004
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4 Star Rating  "Best of the best"2009-03-24
- Reviewed By User: AYG8480WXQM28
Most of the really great harp players are dead and he was one of the very best. Harpers are still trying to figure out what he was doing with some of his licks!
 
5 Star Rating  "The King of the Chicago Blues Harmonica"2009-02-15
- Reviewed By User: A1GCPHTRJS2ISK
As one of the fathers of the postwar Chicago urban blues harmonica style, Little Walter remains one of the greatest players of that instrument.
His classic "Juke" is an exciting instrumental that is the first "serious" showpiece for many emerging blues harpists.

In fact, every leading blues harmonica player who followed Little Walter-and even most of his contemporaries-studied him closely, and can be heard playing his songs and licks. His playing influenced George Smith, Walter Horton, James Cotton, Charlie Musselwhite, Paul Butterfield, John Mayall, and many others too numerous to mention here.

Walter Jacobs was also a fine blues singer, closely involved with the lyric, using a minimum of vocal ornamentation. He was not a "power" singer like Elmore James, but one whose vocal style embodied studied restraint. Walter sang all the typical blues motifs capably, from the down-and-out lovesick blues numbers ("Mean Old World") to the blues-shuffle storytelling songs ("Key to the Highway") to the uptempo, optimistic tunes ("Everything's Gonna Be Alright") that provide contrast to the sad blues themes.

This is the real deal. The musicians on this recording grew up during hard times, many of them in the country in Mississippi; playing the blues was their outlet for expression and relaxation. No "arts funding" was needed for their learning.

It's a superb collection of classic blues songs, and an amazing bargain at the offered price. Highly recommended to all blues lovers, aspiring blues musicians, and listeners who are just beginning to explore blues music. Can't say enough good things about this fine collection.
 
5 Star Rating  "Blues Harp Bible"2008-06-13
- Reviewed By User: A1FY6ETS4ZPCUE
Picture yourself in a crowded juke joint or blues bar on the southside of Chicago in the late '40's. Muddy Waters is about to play. He's already gone electric; I mean, he had to, to be heard over all the talking and yelling and what not. His harp player has about blown out a lung trying to be heard over all that din. Walter Jacobs has been doing a bit of experimenting himself, in an attempt to amplify the sound of that little instrument. Tonight he actually grabs the microphone off the stand, bumping it up close enough in his clasped hands to touch the harp. He cranks up the volume and starts to blow. The sound coming out of the amp is unlike anything anyone's ever heard. It's got a deep, heavy, honking, sexy wail, nothing at all like the unamplified harmonica sound of "country" blues. Men and women alike dance ecstatically, screaming and crying in excitement, over this new and intoxicating sound, this amazingly sensuous and insinuating beat. Necessity is the mother of invention; the guy was simply tired of people yelling that they couldn't hear him. So, being the innovator he was, he came up with a simple adjustment in technique.

This small act completely revolutionized the blues. Walter Jacobs, probably more than any other individual, has influenced every person who has ever played electric blues. When it comes to harp players, he is the undisputed king, the god, the creator, the originator. You can listen to anyone who's ever played amplified harp since it begun, somewhere late '40's, and you will hear Little Walter's riffs. Most people would probably admit that Little Walter is the reason they play harp at all!

This set contains all his best stuff, done after he went out on his own. Imagine this for a three-piece band: drums/bass/harp. That's it; no guitar. He actually played sets with this lineup, and blew the doors off. Most of the tunes on the set here do contain guitar, but it's clear that the lead is Walter and his harp. He wasn't content to just play ten-hole Marine band harps either; he incorporated the rich sound of the chromatic harp into his repertoire.

All blues fans and most of all, those enamored, bewitched, and obsessed with the wonderful sound of electric harp need to own this record and commit it to memory.
 
5 Star Rating  "Unsurpassed"2007-08-28
- Reviewed By avidoldiesfan
Marion Walter Jacobs (b. May 1, 1930 in Alexandria, Louisiana), and influenced by the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson (No. 1) and Louis Jordan and his jump saxophone arrangements, quite simply revolutionized the blues harmonica technique when he showed up at Chicago's famed Maxwell Street market in 1947.

Among the hundreds of artists plying their trade in that environment he stood out to the point where he attracted the interest of the small Chicago labels Ora Nelle and Regal where he cut several sides. His big break came in 1951 when the Chess brothers, Leonard and Phil, hired him to back Muddy Waters and Jimmy Rogers, and it was as much his amplified harmonica that made hits out of Mannish Boy, I'm Ready, and Standing Around Crying [by Waters), and That's All Right and The World Is In A Tangle (Rogers).

By 1952 he was assigned to the Checker subsidiary, and by that September he literally burst into prominence when the instrumental Juke streaked to # 1 R&B and remained there for eight solid weeks [the flip was Can't Hold On Much Longer and is erroneously listed in this compilation as "Can't Hold Out ..."). This single was billed to Little Walter and His Night Cats.

The follow-up Sad Hours (instrumental) didn't quite repeat that success, settling for # 2 early in 1953, while the vocal flipside, Mean Old World, reached # 6 as by Little Walter and His Night Caps. Fittingly, Muddy Waters played guitar on each of these first three hits.

When his next hit reached the charts later that spring (Off The Wall, # 8 as an instrumental, and Tell Me Mama, # 10 as a vocal, he was billed as Little Walter and His Jukes in order to capitalize on his debut smash hit. The Jukes consisted of Chess sessionmen Louis and David Myers on guitar and Fred Belows on drums.

From there to 1959 he would add 10 more hit singles to his credit, his last coming in 1959 when Everything Gonna Be Alright (erroneously listed as "Everything's") reached # 25 (his lowest charter) as simply by Little Walter. These included the seminal My Babe, written by Willie Dixon and based upon the old spiritual This Train, which became his only other # 1 hit, staying at that position for five weeks early in 1955.

It would have been nice if, in putting this tribute together, producer Andy McKaie had found room for the three hits omitted - Oh Baby which made it to # 8 in May 1954 b/w Rocker, You'd Better Watch Yourself which reached the same position that September b/w Blue Light, and Who, which reached # 7 in April 1956 b/w It Ain't Right. You can find You'd Better Watch Yourself on The Best Of Little Walter from MCA/Chess, also listed by Amazon.

Adding to this CD's worth are the six pages of liner notes written by Billy Altman, which includes a wonderful story behind Juke, several nice photographs, and a complete discography of the contents. To quote from Mr. Altman "By 1968 he was gone, leaving behind a legacy that harmonica players everywhere regard as, quite simply, the holy grail."

Just a superb collection.

 
4 Star Rating  "Wonderful harmonica work"2007-05-10
- Reviewed By User: AQQLWCMRNDFGI
Wonderful harmonica music! The liner notes mention that Marion "Little Walter" Jacobs was experimenting with different methods of getting the most out of his harmonica playing. He finally discovered an answer through the "use of a hand-held microphone which was plugged into its own amplifier. . . By `going electric,' Walter single-handedly transformed the harmonica. . . ."

Some nice cuts on this CD. One was a tune that he played when he was with Muddy Waters' band in Chicago in the very early 1950s, "Juke." This is an instrumental tune and well played, beginning with some very strong harmonica work by Little Walter. The band overall produces a nice blues sound. Fun to listen to!

By the time "Blues with a Felling" was recorded, Little Walter had left Waters' band and had a new one of his own, featuring the Myers Brothers and Fred Below. Once more, the harmonica work is great. Little Walter sings nicely, although his voice is not in the genre of Sonny Boy Williamson (II), Muddy Waters, or Howlin' Wolf. One nice line:

"I'm gonna find my baby
If it takes all night and day"

"My Babe" is a nice little rocking song. As before, good harmonica and good overall band playing. The recurring vocal riff: "My babe don't stand no cheating."

Another quick note. "Confessin' the Blues" was covered by the Rolling Stones.

In short, a nice album. His singing may not have been as rough and distinctive and powerful as other leading blues singers of the era, but he still sang well enough. And the harmonica work was outstanding.
 
5 Star Rating  "This sure is blues!"2006-04-13
- Reviewed By mvyskocil2
Little Walter had an amazing harmonica sound and style that was all his own and could never be duplicated. Man, is this some hot stuff. His first record, "Juke", an instrumental is just, to quote another title of his, "off the wall." Yeah, there is a number that's called that which is on this CD. Absoultely what the blues is all about. Songs like "Sad Hours" and "Off the Wall" are practically Little Walter and the band sittin' around and jammin'. Check out the guitar lick at the beginning and the through the whole of "Sad Hours"; classic blues lick. Some other cool stuff is "Tell Me Mama", "Blues With A Feeling", "You're So Fine", "Mellow Down Easy", "My Babe", "Hate To See You Go", and especially "Boom, Boom Out Goes The Light." That one's a regular jam session, too. This is how music was made and appreciated to these guys. They just played as and what they felt. If you're learning about the blues, don't forget one of the supreme harmonica players of the genre: Little Walter.
 
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