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His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) |
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Artist:
Little Walter
Average Customer Rating: 
List Price: £15.99
Our Price: £4.75
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Disc 1:
| 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. Rollercoaster | | 14. Hate To See You Go | | 15. It Ain't Right | | 16. Boom Boom Out Goes The Light | | 17. Confessin' The Blues | | 18. Key To The Highway | | 19. Everything's Gonna Be Alright | | 20. Just Your Fool |
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From Amazon.com
Marion "Little Walter" Jacobs is perhaps the most influential harmonica player on contemporary blues, and his collection is a great place to start. He was trained by Muddy Waters, but brought a more swinging feel to blues. Muddy and his band accompany Little Walter on many hits, as do Robert "Jr." Lockwood, the Aces, and other Chicago greats. In the 1950s, Little Walter's popularity eclipsed even Waters', his style a little more relaxed and pop-oriented. Walter's versions of many songs are the standards: "Blues with a Feeling," "You're So Fine," "Juke." Great stuff. --Robert Gordon
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 Best Available, 2007-07-04
Yes this is currently the best selection of Little Walter's tunes available right now. If you enjoy blues then buy this album.
 Genius, 2007-08-31
This CD is the best place to start when looking to buy a Little Walter CD as it features 20 of the very best tracks that he recorded during his golden period with Chess in the 1950's when he chalked up hit after hit on the US r&b charts and the 20 tracks here are proof that Little Walter was (and still is) the finest blues harmonica player the world has ever seen.
From his first big hit `Juke' in 1952, the CD includes most of his big r&b hits including `Sad Hours', `Off The Wall', `My Babe' etc and some of the musicians that backed Walter here include legendary guitarist Jimmy Rogers, the excellent Otis Spann on piano, the great man Muddy Waters who plays slide guitar on one of Walter's most famous hits: `Key To The Highway' which is included here and the great songwriter and bass player Willie Dixon who plays bass on most of Little Walter's songs.
Although it's impossible to include all of Little Walter's big hits and other famous songs on a 20 track album, I'm curious as to why `Oh Baby', `You Better Watch Yourself' and the incredible `Blue Light' haven't been included as these are 3 essentials, maybe Chess will release a volume 2 in this series as I've noticed they've done that with the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Chuck Berry in the same series.
The best place to start for sure. ****½, 2004-06-25
This is the best available single-disc overview of Little Walter Jacobs' career.
The highly renowned blues harmonica player was not a singer of the caliber of Muddy Waters, or a songwriter to rival Sonny Boy Williamson (II), but his recording career spanned some 20 years, and there are more than enough gems in his catalogue to fill this disc to the point of overflowing.
"His Best" has the best sound currently available, and excellent liner notes, and while the double-disc "The Essential Little Walter" is more thorough, this is all that most listeners will need. A couple of great songs are missing, most notably Walter's gritty rendition of Willie Dixon's "Dead Presidents", but that's a minor quibble...almost all of Walter's best is here, and if you own MCA/Chess' excellent Willie Dixon-box set you already have "Dead Presidents".
1997's "His Best" takes the place of MCA/Chess' original 12-track LP "The Best Of Little Walter", a landmark blues album which had remained in print for over three decades. Here is his first hit single, the instrumental hit "Juke", as well as Walter's versions of Big Bill Broonzy's "Key To The Highway", Dixon's "My Babe", and T-Bone Walker's "Mean Old World" (shamelessly credited to Jacobs himself). And virtually all of Walter's best self-penned songs are here..."Blues With A Feeling", "Boom Boom, Out Goes The Light", "Tell Me Mama", and numerous often masterful instrumentals.
This is certainly the place to start, the finest single-disc Little Walter-compilation on the market.
An utterly brilliant collection, 2009-04-09
All I can say is "WOW!!". Just buy it! It's as it says on the tin. His Best!
His Best, Little Walter, 1997 Chess Compilation - Blues with a feeling!, 2010-03-22
Little Walter was the harmonica player with Muddy Water's band up until he decided to go solo, so you know he must be pretty good. In 1952 he decided to strike out on his own, with his first single the instrumental `Juke' The success of this led to what should have been a fruitful solo career. All his big hits have been collected onto this single disc best of celebrating 50 years of the Chess label.
This is a record packed full of driving, uptempo blues of the highest order. Walter was primarily a harp player, but could lay down a mean vocal if required. Apart from the aforementioned `Juke', there is a classic rendition of Willie Dixon's `My Babe', and the definitive `Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights', in which his snarling tones and ferocious harmonica really make you fear for the life of his adversary! As well as Walter on vocals and harp, many of the tracks feature Willie Dixon on Bass, and Juke features Muddy Waters on guitar.
This is a decent collection, bringing together 20 original recordings from the great man, and covering all the important hits. One worth getting for any fan of foot stomping blues played with passion.
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0076732938423
Label: Import Music Services
Manufacturer: Import Music Services
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Import Music Services
Release Date: 2000-09-12
Studio: Import Music Services |
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