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Jimmy Rogers & Big Walter Mexico City late 1970s

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Uploaded by on Mar 3, 2008

The Jimmy Rogers Blues Band featuring Big Walter Horton, Left Hand Frank Craig, Jim Wydra and SP Leary, perfoming at the Mexico City Blues Festival.

UPDATE: The bass player in this video, Jim Wydra, informs me that this was actually 1977, not 1979 as I'd originally listed it. The person I got the video from still says 1979. I suppose I could split the difference and say "1978" :), but instead I'll just say "late '70s".

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  • Unusual sounding tune!Nice!Big Walter plays first position here, if I'm not mistaken.

  • The tune is "Cleo's Back". It's an instrumental that was originally done by Jr. Walker & The All-Stars, but it seems like most of the blues guys active in Chicago in the '60s and '70s did a version of it, often as a 'break song' at the end of their set. And yes, Big Walter is playing in first position.

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  • Yes It was Raul de la Rosa the festival organizer.I know for a fact that the videos exist because they were broadcasted on national t.v.

    Not only Mr Dixon and Hooker were there but Muddy Waters, Bill Branch, Sunny Land also.

    The venue was the main concert hall at the University of Mexico which has tremendous accoustics. and it was the first blues festival which showed that even in spite of the language barrier people were hungry for the blues and those musicians.Hope to see more videosmr.laRosa

  • I must be listening to this for the 10000th time now!This song is really tight and I love to hear how Big Walter exploits every possibilty of first position playing.Check out his face, he's really feelin' the music!

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  • Check out Walters cheeks - only ever seen brass instrument players swell out like this before!!

  • @casu3 "Worried Worried", I found out he plays that in 3rd position. On Bb harp. Its on youtube. Peace.

  • cool vid yeh hes a master of 1st position to never actually hear him playing on third does ever played somenthin on 3rd?

  • OH GREAT!!! who else did you play with?did you made any records? are currently playing? thanks for playing and loving the blues man... thank you :)

  • cheker764:are you the one I think? the one on "radio educacion"? one of the festival organizers?.Maybe I'm mistaken.

  • Long Live Big Walter.

  • Long Live Big Walter.

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