Walter was killed in an unprovoked "confrontation" with alleged members of a gang or "civic organization" (Vice Lords), of which Junior Wells, who had been upstaged and lost his position as blues harp king in Chicago by Walter - was a high-ranking member...this is, of course, purely coincidence...
No its called not the truth! 'm a woman and I am a historian for musicians in the 40's-60's so If you do your research you will find out that Hollywood always add or takes away from a character to make the movie better in there eyes. Now if they told the truth it would of been interesting enough for the theater. Thank you!
A few months after returning from his second European tour, he was involved in a fight while taking a break from a performance at a nightclub on the South Side of Chicago. The relatively minor injuries sustained in this altercation aggravated and compounded damage he had suffered in previous violent encounters,
and he died in his sleep at the apartment of a girlfriend at 209 E. 54th St. in Chicago early the following morning.[1][9] The official cause of death indicated on his death certificate was "coronary thrombosis" (a blood clot in the heart); evidence of external injuries was so insignificant that police reported that his death was of "unknown or natural causes",
When he died it was from many fights that caused internal bleeding. He died at his girl friends house not at Muddy Waters house like they said. Hollywood lied again!
The interesting part about the movie and story is that Hollywood fixed it up for them not the full truth. Lil Walter was a band leader before and after he left Muddy Waters. He had a anger problem more than an alcohol problem at first. He also traveled to Europe and did a lot of music for the time that he lived. He had over 20 hit records that was records.
@piahoffman leonard chess got a call from a radio station innew orleans.... telling him that little walters'mother died he spoke about in the alley ( behind cadillac records) with Muddy waters
Actually, Walter was 38 when he passed and yes, he did look older than that. He lived a VERY hard life. But he made his mark: I'd still rather listen to 'Juke' than any other piece of music - and I've been listening to it since 1964.
1995 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: "Juke" (500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll)[11] 2003 - Rolling Stone: Best of Little Walter (#198 on list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time)[12] 2008 - Grammy Awards: "Juke" (Grammy Hall of Fame Award)[13] 2008 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Little Walter inducted (Sideman category)
Sorry but your information is incorrect: Walter did play chromatic (the '64 Chromonica', which is in C and C sharp, not B and C) but he mostly played the diatonic Marine Band.
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Yep. "Ordinary" harmonicas are in one key, a major key. They make minor-key ones, but they are rare. Little Walter often (always?) played a chromatic, which is like two harps, (for a *C harp*, it's one in B and one in C), that you can switch between with a button on one end. This gives you the entire twelve-tone scale.
There are others - Hohner makes an "Echo Harp" with two sets of reeds that give a chorus effect. There are big bass harmonicas and little tiny ones.
You're right. It's just that I have a tape with Walter and Louis Myers talking with Bill Lindemann, and Walter says "Bob" was the engineer. I knew of Putnam and should have made the connection/correction.
Walter says all the great sounds he got in studio came from Bob, an overweight white engineer. Walter wouldn't record without him. In any case Walter "owned" the blues harp. I'll never forget Louis Myers calling me to tell me Walter got into a big fight on 55th Pl., came home, lay down - and never woke up.
Bill Putnam was the engineer at Universal Studios in Chicago where Walter recorded all his best stuff,and yes it was Bill who got that sound on Walter's harp.
Every harmonica player hears this song as a base to learn, I can't play like that and I haven't heard anyone that can. Pros strive for that level, that can't be touched, none of the pros I have heard play as well as Little Walter (not even close). This was the song that took harmonica to a serious instrument, and for the young harmonica students, try to play along lol.
what is up with the xtra beats on the second and third verses ? Try to play a 13 and a quarter bar blues or 12 and a half, bit of a challenge. wonder if he planned it that way.
@iorr98 Muddy Waters is playing rhythm guitar and he messed around with time a lot. His first hit song 'I Can't Be Satisfied' is really like a 11.5 bar blues. And you're right...this stuff is so much harder to play than people think it is. The sound these guys had is almost impossible to duplicate... although many have tried.
It's funny: When you find the rare masterpieces of music here on Youtube the rating is always more fair than in the more common known music. 427 ups, 0 downs. I guess we who search for masterful music are more respectful and thankful to the musicians.
I'm 19 now and when I heard this about 3 or 4 years ago I got myself a harmonica and have fallen in love with the blues. The greatest piece of harmonica playing I have heard and I'm not expecting to find anything better!
Thanks for this beautiful video.At the beginning he plays this riff or sonthing like this about 7 times:2d,3d,4d,5b,6b,6b then following by another faster notes,do you know what notes or riff is that?
If you think THIS is a GREAT song , try listening to "Roller Coaster" or "Don't Need No Horse"!!! Roller Coaster is my all-time favorite song in ANY category of music!!! It'll let you know exactly who is and will always be the #1 harp man!!
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OMG I got hooked on this song when I heard it on Cadillac Records. never heard of little Walter or Muddy before, crazy how movies like that introduce the younger generations to musical geniuses that never get any credit compared to people like the beatles or elvis. they deserve just as much credit for contributing to music as the beatles and elvis did.
@kapparhotau181 Great to see movies made about the great artists of the past. Gives younger generations a chance to be introduce to really great music!! That's all I'm gonna say about that!
@kapparhotau181 on the other hand Elvis "the king" does not deserve so much credit for stealing their music and presenting it as his own...just cause he was white...no matter what people say about Elvis...half of his music was stolen!!
"Little Walter Jacobs (1930 - 1968) changed the Chicago blues sound in 1952 with his bluesharp instrumental "Juke", spending eight weeks in the #1 position on the Billboard magazine R&B charts."
Really, I hate this guy and all his old friends. He makes me love the harmonica and the blues. And I? I'm crazy for music, but I never will play the harmonica and the blues as well as him! Definitively - \º/ yeahhhh
This is f*ckin blues right here! Don't let anyone say this isn't, this right here is what it's all about. It can't be taught, it comes from our soul. Anyone that plays any form of blues, it's comin from there soul. That's the only way to play, is open up and let it ride! The father of it is right there jammin out!
@EwanJanoski well haha as far as I know only Little Walter achieved this level tonewise and skillwise. He's like the BB King of the blues harp. Of course Sonny Boy Williamson I & II are bomb too, but Little Walter just has the perfect tone. So yea not anyone create something like this with a harp
The late great Little Walter to much eivil he could not resist cuts the best down. If he cannot make you want to get up and dance, go away. As Chess records short great, great musical incandescent stars streaking across our attention span and then gone to soon.
He influenced my harp playing so much. He's directly responsible for helping me learn how to bend a note so good it gave me a shiver. I'm still learning, but some day I hope to perform on stage. Note...he did not personally teach me, but my brother in aw bought me a horner and a tape with this song on it...and low and behold, I was finally able to bend it baby...now I have a few rifts of my own but not enough to get up in the lights.....yet. Either way...thanks Mr. Walters, I am indebted.
@Confleezy well, LW changed a lot by plugging in the harp and playing through a guitar style amp with overdrive on the amp. This can be done nowadays pretty accurately. he Also used some early use of reverb on the follow up to this called "sad hours" which was pretty spooky and cool. This one also sports an early tape echo on the song. At the time that was UNHEARD and blew peoples minds! A few years later they were using it everywhere.
It's going on for half a century since I first heard this. If the hallmark of great music is that it gets better with age then this is right up there with the all time best music made in human history. Little Walter could get an amazing range of tone from what was considered at the time to be no more than a toy instrument for children to play with.
@DirtyDeck - if your harp is in tune and you are actually in E Major, you shouldn't have a glaring problem with the pitch. Make sure your harp is tuned to just intonation; harplog.com has a scheme for Marine Band just intonation tuning if you got a chromatic tuner or better. That's what Walter's Marine band was most likely tuned to.
are you KIDDING. wonder why? lol: Y blues-harper has nothing in the world to do with Walter. does faintly recalls SBW II. Have a try - youtube.com/watch?v=ePLp2tNLoEc - and please notice what blues harp is all about: timing, controll, rhythm, swing, natural breath. or then you might dig:
youtube.com/watch?v=qqNdkNE3VSA
youtube.com/watch?v=kNk4syu0vRI&feature=related
but please please please don't ever compare things that have nothin in common with the masters!!!
i am only in my 20's but this music is my favorite...it just brings my soul alive....i wish we had music like this again....real music words you can understand!
This was recorded 1952 at the end of a Muddy Waters session. Chess let the tapes run and history was made. The band here is Muddy and Jimmy Rogers on guitar, and I think Elga Edmunds on drums, but I'm not sure of that. And of course Little Walter on harp.
Brim was recording for Chess and Checker at the time, but not with Muddy's band.
An incredibly soulful sound. Little Walter was godfather to a whole generation of blues harmonica players...Paul Butterfield was an early disciple, you can hear Walter's influence all over Butterfield's playing.
Muddy Waters and Jimmy Rogers on guitars, with Elgin Evans on drums. It is noted as perhaps the first use by Chess of Echo/Delay in recording, a technique used later by Sun records on early rockabilly recordings.
Little Walter, and his band the Night Cats recorded some of the greatest harp blues in Chicago from the early to mid 1950's. These great old recordings had an earthiness and a raw sound which we do not hear on our modern recordings.
For years, many held up Sonny Boy Williamson as THE harp blues player. For me personally, I think Little Walter is right up there too. An incredible sound.
@AbovePerfect@AbovePerfect . if you play in straigh harp (the same key as the guitarist) avoid starting on the bass notes, start in the middle and try to find more blow notes this works for folk and country music. cross harp works this way if the rest of the band are in G you play a C harp and so on through the scale! good luck, howlin slim.
@trigsie I agree with your analysis, but, I have spent as an amateur musicologist (history, structure, University, the modes) you justly leave out, encourage not discourage. Playing the blues, any form is not just playing singing the notes.Trigsie is being kind I could play, the same note for note something can't be taught even in our greatest music schools, to be great . It is “from the heart, Horowitz had it. Explain what can't be taught. Let trgsie explain what can’t be taught. Heart/Soul
@fordescort51 : a bluesharp is tuned in one tonality, for example in the key of A. If you play in on this harp with A as base note, you are playing in first position or straight harp.
However, to be able to play with more feeling and to be able to play 'blue notes', the early bluesmen found out that you get better results if you use the E as the base note on a A-harp. It is called crossharp or second position playing.
42 year... R.I.P. Little Walter. One of the biggest bluesmen of history.
MrJJ747 2 weeks ago
Walter was killed in an unprovoked "confrontation" with alleged members of a gang or "civic organization" (Vice Lords), of which Junior Wells, who had been upstaged and lost his position as blues harp king in Chicago by Walter - was a high-ranking member...this is, of course, purely coincidence...
Doctorhamfat 1 month ago
No its called not the truth! 'm a woman and I am a historian for musicians in the 40's-60's so If you do your research you will find out that Hollywood always add or takes away from a character to make the movie better in there eyes. Now if they told the truth it would of been interesting enough for the theater. Thank you!
piahoffman 2 months ago
@piahoffman Tell Us The Truth Then.
mikemike1234abcd 1 month ago
HOLLYWOOD ALWAYS LIES OR EXTENDS THE TRUTH ABOUT SOMEONES LIFE JUST TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF OTHERS!
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Death
A few months after returning from his second European tour, he was involved in a fight while taking a break from a performance at a nightclub on the South Side of Chicago. The relatively minor injuries sustained in this altercation aggravated and compounded damage he had suffered in previous violent encounters,
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and he died in his sleep at the apartment of a girlfriend at 209 E. 54th St. in Chicago early the following morning.[1][9] The official cause of death indicated on his death certificate was "coronary thrombosis" (a blood clot in the heart); evidence of external injuries was so insignificant that police reported that his death was of "unknown or natural causes",
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When he died it was from many fights that caused internal bleeding. He died at his girl friends house not at Muddy Waters house like they said. Hollywood lied again!
piahoffman 2 months ago
@piahoffman it's called drama,son
Freyja1133 2 months ago
The interesting part about the movie and story is that Hollywood fixed it up for them not the full truth. Lil Walter was a band leader before and after he left Muddy Waters. He had a anger problem more than an alcohol problem at first. He also traveled to Europe and did a lot of music for the time that he lived. He had over 20 hit records that was records.
piahoffman 2 months ago
@piahoffman leonard chess got a call from a radio station innew orleans.... telling him that little walters'mother died he spoke about in the alley ( behind cadillac records) with Muddy waters
Freyja1133 2 months ago
juke es de lo mejor que se puede escuchar en blues-rok sin duda
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Oldspirit189 3 months ago 2
Hi smeezle
Actually, Walter was 38 when he passed and yes, he did look older than that. He lived a VERY hard life. But he made his mark: I'd still rather listen to 'Juke' than any other piece of music - and I've been listening to it since 1964.
Best wishes
guitarandharp 3 months ago
38**
smeezle 3 months ago
He died at 28.. but this dude looks 40+ easy. crazyness. the guy acomplished a bunch for being that young
smeezle 3 months ago
@smeezle he was 38 when he passed
maybebaby2910 2 months ago
1995 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: "Juke" (500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll)[11] 2003 - Rolling Stone: Best of Little Walter (#198 on list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time)[12] 2008 - Grammy Awards: "Juke" (Grammy Hall of Fame Award)[13] 2008 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Little Walter inducted (Sideman category)
uptowntreeefort 3 months ago
Hi empatheticrobo
Sorry but your information is incorrect: Walter did play chromatic (the '64 Chromonica', which is in C and C sharp, not B and C) but he mostly played the diatonic Marine Band.
Best wishes
guitarandharp 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Little Walter
694 Likes~! 0 Dislikes! NOW THAT'S WHAT I LIKE TO SEE!!!
RulerL0rd 4 months ago
One word " CLASSIC"
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58kaldyr 5 months ago
besides tuning. are there big differences in harmonicas? like the same way you have classical guitars and steel string?
empatheticrobo 5 months ago
@empatheticrobo
Yep. "Ordinary" harmonicas are in one key, a major key. They make minor-key ones, but they are rare. Little Walter often (always?) played a chromatic, which is like two harps, (for a *C harp*, it's one in B and one in C), that you can switch between with a button on one end. This gives you the entire twelve-tone scale.
There are others - Hohner makes an "Echo Harp" with two sets of reeds that give a chorus effect. There are big bass harmonicas and little tiny ones.
msbfd 5 months ago
@msbfd
this is just absolute bullshit lol... the majority of Walters playing is on the diatonic harp playing in second position, not chromatic
dd1yr 3 months ago
It is not a D harp
gianniscassa 5 months ago
thank god for blues and my dad for always listing to it while i grew up im so glad i know about this great music even though im 23
KevinKronz 6 months ago 2
Amazing... 0 dislikes on youtube of all places. That says something.
fsae0607 6 months ago 2
gotta hear it over and over again -thank you for keepin the magic alive...
LW paved the way - gave Chess a unique sound - along with all the other greats who paved the way -DJ...
LW -My Babe...ummhhhh...
djangoman2008 6 months ago
What an amazing harp player.
Hnight07 6 months ago
Awesome.
hogiesanKenobi 6 months ago
The first Lil W from the Bayou State.
myvette1211 7 months ago
You're right. It's just that I have a tape with Walter and Louis Myers talking with Bill Lindemann, and Walter says "Bob" was the engineer. I knew of Putnam and should have made the connection/correction.
revonreed 7 months ago
Cadillac Records was so cool Great movie,I went out and bought Lil Walters Chess collection...
MrSandydillon 7 months ago
przez niego kupuje harmonijke ;o
jarqwwek 7 months ago
Walter says all the great sounds he got in studio came from Bob, an overweight white engineer. Walter wouldn't record without him. In any case Walter "owned" the blues harp. I'll never forget Louis Myers calling me to tell me Walter got into a big fight on 55th Pl., came home, lay down - and never woke up.
revonreed 7 months ago
@revonreed Wasn't actually 'Bob' but 'Bill'.
Bill Putnam was the engineer at Universal Studios in Chicago where Walter recorded all his best stuff,and yes it was Bill who got that sound on Walter's harp.
whest 7 months ago
Every harmonica player hears this song as a base to learn, I can't play like that and I haven't heard anyone that can. Pros strive for that level, that can't be touched, none of the pros I have heard play as well as Little Walter (not even close). This was the song that took harmonica to a serious instrument, and for the young harmonica students, try to play along lol.
naabjr 8 months ago
A big thanks to Lenard Chess for putting up with this man with amazing talent.
kingofrockandrollfan 8 months ago 4
I love this music. I make me wanna get up and shake my tailfeather!!!
Floshekia 8 months ago
he was not born in 1930 it was 1928...his grandfather n my grt grt grandfather were brothers..
brianj713 9 months ago
he was not born in 1930 it was 1928...his grandfather n my grt grt grandfather were brothers..
brianj713 9 months ago
Burnin that shit listen to good shit! MUGGELED! Can ya dig it?
CroniK925 9 months ago
I'am malaysian, my grandfather always told me about him..Little walter was my grandfather idol... :)
RongGENG60 9 months ago
legend.. \m/
RongGENG60 9 months ago
im 14 in your faces
petsBenham 9 months ago 2
@petsBenham Good to hear theirs other kids with good taste
magnum9987 9 months ago
@magnum9987 thanks man
petsBenham 9 months ago
@petsBenham im 12 lol
lolhibitch 5 months ago
This guy is one of the most under-rated mucians ever.
bobbygnosis 9 months ago 3
That sound!
BerserkaViking 10 months ago
Walter was just as raw as his sound...a street fighter...he'd leap off the bandstand at his opponents!
He died in a fight.
taildragger53 10 months ago
what is up with the xtra beats on the second and third verses ? Try to play a 13 and a quarter bar blues or 12 and a half, bit of a challenge. wonder if he planned it that way.
LW is in my eyes as innovative as Hendrix was.
iorr98 10 months ago
@iorr98 Muddy Waters is playing rhythm guitar and he messed around with time a lot. His first hit song 'I Can't Be Satisfied' is really like a 11.5 bar blues. And you're right...this stuff is so much harder to play than people think it is. The sound these guys had is almost impossible to duplicate... although many have tried.
Odin029 10 months ago
A big thanks to the movie Cadillac Records [+1] *-*
ThamiraFerreira 10 months ago 76
@ThamiraFerreira great movie Muddy,Walter,Berry,Eta,Howlin Woolf....
aleksalipa 4 months ago
It's funny: When you find the rare masterpieces of music here on Youtube the rating is always more fair than in the more common known music. 427 ups, 0 downs. I guess we who search for masterful music are more respectful and thankful to the musicians.
ElvisStillRules 10 months ago 3
Loving this music.
A big thanks to the movie Cadillac Records.
:-)
ThatGuyTy91 10 months ago
I'm 19 now and when I heard this about 3 or 4 years ago I got myself a harmonica and have fallen in love with the blues. The greatest piece of harmonica playing I have heard and I'm not expecting to find anything better!
Phatomrunner 10 months ago
The original bar room blues?
I got women with long legs and short skirts toe tappin and swinging it around in my mind.
Honeysucklebommie 10 months ago
Great artist. It's a chame that he die so young...
Lusitano1143 10 months ago
if you have not seen it yet, watch Cadillac records.... its just plain awesome
the69erstyle1 11 months ago
Little Walter's greatest work (in my opinion) was from 1952 to 1955. Incredible harp playing. And what a tight knit band he had in the Night Cats.
eldorado62 1 year ago
awsome, oh man i was born too late, i have lots of little walter albums and recordings, just wish i could have seen this guy live.
TheFerret1234 1 year ago
beautiful. Unbelievable. What a master of the blues...Thanks
belleray2 1 year ago
malditaszorras Thanks
sicopr2003 1 year ago
Not One Dislike. You people have Sense!
Ronalro12345 1 year ago 3
125 thousand views, and NO dislikes.
I guess there are some things even Youtubers Know better then to mess with.
bmccarville 1 year ago
Totally COOL !!
superblop27 1 year ago
Thanks for this beautiful video.At the beginning he plays this riff or sonthing like this about 7 times:2d,3d,4d,5b,6b,6b then following by another faster notes,do you know what notes or riff is that?
sicopr2003 1 year ago
@sicopr2003 Then he plays something like:
2d 3d 4d 5b 5d 5b 4d 5b 6b 5d 4d 5b 6b 5d 4d 5b 3d 2d 2d 1d 2b 2d 1d 1d
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@sicopr2003 Then he plays something like:
2d 3d 4d 5b 5d 5b 4d 5b 6b 5d 4d 5b 6b 5d 4d 5b 3d 2d 2d 1d 2b 2d 1d 1d
malditaszorras 1 year ago
If you think THIS is a GREAT song , try listening to "Roller Coaster" or "Don't Need No Horse"!!! Roller Coaster is my all-time favorite song in ANY category of music!!! It'll let you know exactly who is and will always be the #1 harp man!!
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Cairns70 1 year ago
OMG I got hooked on this song when I heard it on Cadillac Records. never heard of little Walter or Muddy before, crazy how movies like that introduce the younger generations to musical geniuses that never get any credit compared to people like the beatles or elvis. they deserve just as much credit for contributing to music as the beatles and elvis did.
kapparhotau181 1 year ago 19
@kapparhotau181 Great to see movies made about the great artists of the past. Gives younger generations a chance to be introduce to really great music!! That's all I'm gonna say about that!
903davesharonpoky 4 months ago
@kapparhotau181 on the other hand Elvis "the king" does not deserve so much credit for stealing their music and presenting it as his own...just cause he was white...no matter what people say about Elvis...half of his music was stolen!!
lefiosalex 4 months ago
"Little Walter Jacobs (1930 - 1968) changed the Chicago blues sound in 1952 with his bluesharp instrumental "Juke", spending eight weeks in the #1 position on the Billboard magazine R&B charts."
And the rest of time in my favourite tracks list.
zorman1875 1 year ago
Really, I hate this guy and all his old friends. He makes me love the harmonica and the blues. And I? I'm crazy for music, but I never will play the harmonica and the blues as well as him! Definitively - \º/ yeahhhh
has123456 1 year ago
=O love !! ^^
jhonny99663 1 year ago
This is f*ckin blues right here! Don't let anyone say this isn't, this right here is what it's all about. It can't be taught, it comes from our soul. Anyone that plays any form of blues, it's comin from there soul. That's the only way to play, is open up and let it ride! The father of it is right there jammin out!
raymorriss 1 year ago
This is what i call Blues ! :)
hitmanhanbo 1 year ago
wow, this song playing in my opala.
kepler98 1 year ago
pure genius and so young!
bluesoulady 1 year ago
It is incredible what you could create with an harmonica :D
EwanJanoski 1 year ago 55
@EwanJanoski No, mate...We can't do that w/ the harm...Just Little Walter got that mojo...
JohanSebastianCruyff 10 months ago
@EwanJanoski well haha as far as I know only Little Walter achieved this level tonewise and skillwise. He's like the BB King of the blues harp. Of course Sonny Boy Williamson I & II are bomb too, but Little Walter just has the perfect tone. So yea not anyone create something like this with a harp
TimBirkenholz 5 months ago
The late great Little Walter to much eivil he could not resist cuts the best down. If he cannot make you want to get up and dance, go away. As Chess records short great, great musical incandescent stars streaking across our attention span and then gone to soon.
Thamks Litlle Walter you live on
persevere4 1 year ago
Too bad Walter got hooked on liquor, he could have still made a lot of killin stuff in his later years lie dis here.
flaminfedora 1 year ago
@flaminfedora
U kan't spel fer shit dude!
HoboGus 1 year ago
i have a friend who could play the juke like him..luve it...jenny
peppy12011 1 year ago
He influenced my harp playing so much. He's directly responsible for helping me learn how to bend a note so good it gave me a shiver. I'm still learning, but some day I hope to perform on stage. Note...he did not personally teach me, but my brother in aw bought me a horner and a tape with this song on it...and low and behold, I was finally able to bend it baby...now I have a few rifts of my own but not enough to get up in the lights.....yet. Either way...thanks Mr. Walters, I am indebted.
AHirschenhofer 1 year ago
little walter and howlin wolf the best blues artists .wicked track.
brian4858 1 year ago
love it
DCBlkbeautie 1 year ago
Ass Whoopin' yessa LIL WALTER da MAN
dixiharpdog 1 year ago
Not a single thumbs down? My family just went from 5 to 159. Maybe the world isn't doomed.
Hiporlacking 1 year ago
Still the best ever!
hollies65 1 year ago
its impossible to get that fat harp sound with the recording equipment today...its too good nowadays and thats sad
and the vintage pieces cost a fortune
Confleezy 1 year ago
@Confleezy well, LW changed a lot by plugging in the harp and playing through a guitar style amp with overdrive on the amp. This can be done nowadays pretty accurately. he Also used some early use of reverb on the follow up to this called "sad hours" which was pretty spooky and cool. This one also sports an early tape echo on the song. At the time that was UNHEARD and blew peoples minds! A few years later they were using it everywhere.
SEANFIR 1 year ago
So there I was cruzin in my 48' pick-up . . .
Wargoat6 1 year ago
Grab yer girl, tell her you love her, then swing her round the place to some of this!!!!
jimmythesaxman 1 year ago
It's going on for half a century since I first heard this. If the hallmark of great music is that it gets better with age then this is right up there with the all time best music made in human history. Little Walter could get an amazing range of tone from what was considered at the time to be no more than a toy instrument for children to play with.
zthetha 1 year ago 2
so, indebted to the blues players who paved the whay. they probably never got all the credit they deserve.
MrDannydo 1 year ago
Just watched cadillac records on Encore. im obsessed with these musicians now!
bigbrown4114493 1 year ago 3
bad!!!!!go go
SuperFreshgurl 1 year ago
How come my A harp never sounds in tune with this? Is to do with RPM or some mad shit?
DirtyDeck 1 year ago
@DirtyDeck - if your harp is in tune and you are actually in E Major, you shouldn't have a glaring problem with the pitch. Make sure your harp is tuned to just intonation; harplog.com has a scheme for Marine Band just intonation tuning if you got a chromatic tuner or better. That's what Walter's Marine band was most likely tuned to.
gvnobas 1 year ago
really who's better? youtube.com/watch?v=xq7hjhsPMlY Blues-Harper
chewymeemee 1 year ago
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matthiaswohlgemuth 1 year ago
@chewymeemee
@chewymeemee
are you KIDDING. wonder why? lol: Y blues-harper has nothing in the world to do with Walter. does faintly recalls SBW II. Have a try - youtube.com/watch?v=ePLp2tNLoEc - and please notice what blues harp is all about: timing, controll, rhythm, swing, natural breath. or then you might dig:
youtube.com/watch?v=qqNdkNE3VSA
youtube.com/watch?v=kNk4syu0vRI&feature=related
but please please please don't ever compare things that have nothin in common with the masters!!!
matthiaswohlgemuth 1 year ago
@matthiaswohlgemuth Yea but did you even see the Blues-Harper video?
chewymeemee 1 year ago
It's just me or it just the record machine back in 1950 suck?
The12Child 1 year ago
@The12Child
it has to be you, unfortunately. but as long as you are alife you have time to learn, don't worry...
matthiaswohlgemuth 1 year ago
@matthiaswohlgemuth So since the 1950 they haven't did anythin to make that record machine better?
The12Child 1 year ago
I haven't heard this in YEARS !!! Thanks for posting!! HaHaHa!!! Fabulous.
janedoe1024 1 year ago
i am only in my 20's but this music is my favorite...it just brings my soul alive....i wish we had music like this again....real music words you can understand!
TheKbabe222004 1 year ago
John Brim on guitar?
thomas1976 1 year ago
@thomas1976
Nope, Muddy Waters.
This was recorded 1952 at the end of a Muddy Waters session. Chess let the tapes run and history was made. The band here is Muddy and Jimmy Rogers on guitar, and I think Elga Edmunds on drums, but I'm not sure of that. And of course Little Walter on harp.
Brim was recording for Chess and Checker at the time, but not with Muddy's band.
Bluesam023 1 year ago
@Bluesam023
Thanks for the details.
thomas1976 1 year ago
he was shot at a dice game . dont believe that movie bullshi\t
DAPPERDANREADY 1 year ago
damn he only lived 38 yrs? how did he die?
LTdrumma 1 year ago
@LTdrumma Got in a fight and suffered some internal injuries. Died in his sleep.
phw124 1 year ago
Oh man....that note that starts at 0:42 is from down deep in his gut ain't it?
OBDjFH05 1 year ago
the equivalent of hideaway for harmonica
imavaughanstar 1 year ago 2
lolz the white stripes bott me into blues
SamuBolado 1 year ago
i like 2 whistle to this song.
MsSonjita 1 year ago
iittle walter's birthday is coming. LUV U!
MsSonjita 1 year ago
@MsSonjita I hate to break this to you, but he's kind of dead.
jesus201866 1 year ago
I remember hearing someone say (maybe in BBC "Folk America") that after "Juke" harmonicas went from 10 cents to 10 bucks.
thefringthing 1 year ago
@thefringthing That was from the you tube video...
Little Walter R&R Hall of Fame film
And it says... after Juke harmonicas went from 5cents to $5....cool video....
kevincarpet 1 year ago
Legendary!
HarveyDCable 1 year ago
Magic Dick is as close as I've ever heard and he's copying not pioneering ~Hats off to a great Blues legend!
1mtview 2 years ago
An incredibly soulful sound. Little Walter was godfather to a whole generation of blues harmonica players...Paul Butterfield was an early disciple, you can hear Walter's influence all over Butterfield's playing.
JoeRailfan 2 years ago 2
one and only harmonica genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
albedaw 2 years ago
i heard that when little walter was with muddy waters they opened and closed there shows with juke
BooBoo1005x 2 years ago
if thers was one wish i had that would be that all blues will stick round forever and be loved
Alileopil 2 years ago 3
I love this music!!!
broncofangj 2 years ago 6
Sends chills up my spine; brilliant.
skyydawg123 2 years ago 5
This is one of my absolute favourite records. I have to play it at least twice! Sheer perfection!
Many thanks for posting this.
guitarandharp 2 years ago 23
if you did not tell me I would not know that is a harmonica.
mobb2 2 years ago 8
@mobb2 cuz he got electrified!!! Neat stuff.
upgrader99 1 year ago
@mobb2 that's because he used to mic the harmonica and plug it into a guitar amp distorted.. a fuckin'genius
antecresearch 1 year ago
Excellent!
mrvegasmanrocks 2 years ago 5
wow man, that's ultra great!!!!! 5 stars, rocking regards, peter
SolidSmokeRockabilly 2 years ago 3
Only the best. Period.
mrvegasmanrocks 2 years ago 3
Muddy Waters and Jimmy Rogers on guitars, with Elgin Evans on drums. It is noted as perhaps the first use by Chess of Echo/Delay in recording, a technique used later by Sun records on early rockabilly recordings.
mashtones 2 years ago 3
Little Walter, and his band the Night Cats recorded some of the greatest harp blues in Chicago from the early to mid 1950's. These great old recordings had an earthiness and a raw sound which we do not hear on our modern recordings.
For years, many held up Sonny Boy Williamson as THE harp blues player. For me personally, I think Little Walter is right up there too. An incredible sound.
eldorado62 2 years ago 3
@eldorado62 I like It Ain't Right and Roller Coaster which has Bo Diddley on guitar.
bluesboy25000 2 years ago
I am a huge blues fan!!!! this is on my playlist
tommy2chips 2 years ago 2
Good for you!! ;)
austinphile 2 years ago 3
what key is this in?
MrGobbledygook 2 years ago 9
It's in the key of E, so play crossharp on your A-harp!
ljb2492 2 years ago 13
@ljb2492 That's right!
redchannels 1 year ago
@ljb2492 Man, can you explain me this? What's about the crossharping?
AbovePerfect 1 year ago
@AbovePerfect @AbovePerfect . if you play in straigh harp (the same key as the guitarist) avoid starting on the bass notes, start in the middle and try to find more blow notes this works for folk and country music. cross harp works this way if the rest of the band are in G you play a C harp and so on through the scale! good luck, howlin slim.
trigsie 1 year ago
@trigsie I agree with your analysis, but, I have spent as an amateur musicologist (history, structure, University, the modes) you justly leave out, encourage not discourage. Playing the blues, any form is not just playing singing the notes.Trigsie is being kind I could play, the same note for note something can't be taught even in our greatest music schools, to be great . It is “from the heart, Horowitz had it. Explain what can't be taught. Let trgsie explain what can’t be taught. Heart/Soul
persevere4 1 year ago
@ljb2492 No, Harmonica Ab...music in Eb.
Brunoaz2000 1 year ago
@ljb2492 what do you mean with crossharp? i know, stupid question, but i'm new to playing
fordescort51 1 year ago
@fordescort51 : a bluesharp is tuned in one tonality, for example in the key of A. If you play in on this harp with A as base note, you are playing in first position or straight harp.
However, to be able to play with more feeling and to be able to play 'blue notes', the early bluesmen found out that you get better results if you use the E as the base note on a A-harp. It is called crossharp or second position playing.
ljb2492 1 year ago
@ljb2492 or mixolydian
MrArikKatz 1 year ago
@fordescort51 "crossharp" is when the song is one key, but you play a harp in other key. It's how you play blues.
look up the term online and get a chart so you'll know what keys to play.
bmccarville 1 year ago
@fordescort51 google
xgilxx 1 year ago
@ljb2492
I will try it. Ive been playing it in B flat cross.
tharinr 1 year ago
@MrGobbledygook
somewhere between Eb and E... :D
hohnerlad 1 year ago
the key of K@@L :o)
pirrung123 1 year ago
thanks so much for the upload this song is incredible Little Walter is my favorite harmonica player
Mastas999 2 years ago 2