Blues singer little walter biography muddy
Blues singer little walter biography muddy
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Walter, Little
Harmonica player
For the Record…
Joined Muddy Waters Band
Little Walter and His Jukes
Hard Years: The End of an Era
Selected discography
Sources
The most commercially successful Chicago blues performer of the postwar era, harmonica stylist Little Walter Jacobs continues to attract a devoted legion of followers.
His recordings as a solo artist and side musician with the bands of Muddy Waters and Jimmy Rogers are among the finest performances of Chicago blues—sessions that continue to be studied and idolized by musical artists around the world.
Fusing the style of his mentor John Lee Williamson with the jump blues of saxophonist Louis Jordan, Walter varied the harmonica, to quote Paul Oliver in his work The Black-well Guide to Blues Records, as a “capable but crude horn substitute.” A country-bred musician with a modern sensibility for swing music, Walter created an amplified sound filled with dark, haunting tones and flowing mel