Blues Harmonica Giant: Classic Sides 1951-1956

by Big Walter Horton, Walter "Shakey" Horton

Overview

Big Walter Horton was a giant on the amplified harmonica, bringing the electricity of the instrument into the modern blues era with his works as a sideman and as a bandleader. This three-disc box does a great job of looking at the length, breadth, and scope of his career with a disc of Horton solo and as a bandleader in the 1950s; a second disc of him working with the likes of Joe Hill Louis, Willie Nix, Mose Vinson, Johnny Shines, Tampa Red, Sunnyland Slim, and others during the same decade; and a third disc featuring Horton's 1970s work with Carey Bell. It's a nice and rounded overview of a remarkable musician. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	09/14/2010
Label:	Jsp Records
UPC:	0788065230524
Rank:	71097

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Cotton Patch Hotfoot
2. What's the Matter with You [Take 1]
3. Little Boy Blue [Take 1]
4. Blues in the Morning
5. Now Tell Me Baby
6. I'm in Love with You Baby [Take 1]
7. Black Gal
8. Hard Hearted Woman
9. Jumpin' Blues
10. So Long Woman
11. What's the Matter with You [Take 2]
12. Little Boy Blue [Take 2]
13. I'm I Love with You Baby [Take 2]
14. Grandmother Got Grandfather Told [Take 1]
15. In the Mood
16. Grandmother Got Grandfather Told [Take 2]
17. We All Gotta Go [Take 3]
18. Little Walter's Boogie [Take 1]
19. We All Gotta Go [Take 4]
20. Little Walter's Boogie [Take 2]
21. West Winds Are Blowing [Take 1]
22. Little Walter's Boogie [Take 3]
23. West Winds Are Blowing [Take 2]
24. Walter's Instrumental
25. Off the Wall
26. Off the Wall
27. Hard Hearted Woman
28. Back Home to Mama

Disc 2

29. Hard Hearted Woman
30. Back Home to Mama
31. Need My Baby
32. Have a Good Time
33. Need My Baby [Take 1]
34. Selling My Whiskey [Incomplete]
35. Midnight Showers of Rain
36. Prison Bound Blues
37. Riding in the Moonlight
38. Let's Take a Little Walk
39. Easy
40. Hydramatic Woman
41. Tiger Man (King of the Jungle)
42. Seems Like a Million Years [Take 1]
43. Seems Like a Million Years [Take 2]
44. Worry You Off My Mind
45. Shine Boy
46. Evening Shuffle [Take 1]
47. Evening Shuffle [Take2]
48. Evening Sun
49. No Name Blues
50. Brutal Hearted Woman
51. Gonna Call the Angel [Rehearsal]
52. Gonna Call the Angel [Take 3]
53. Big Stars Falling Blues
54. Rambler's Blues
55. Evalena
56. Highway 61
57. It's You Baby

Disc 3

58. Hard Hearted Woman
59. Sick & Tired
60. Walter's Jump
61. Leaving in the Morning
62. Walter & Carey
63. Walking by Myself
64. My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Big Walter Horton   Primary Artist,Vocals,Harmonica
Walter "Shakey" Horton   Primary Artist
Willie Nix   Primary Artist,Drums,Vocals
Jackie Boy & Little Walter   Primary Artist
Jimmy & Walter   Primary Artist
Joe Hill Louis   Primary Artist,Drums,Guitar,Vocals
Tampa Red   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Johnny Shines   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Mose Vinson   Primary Artist,Piano,Vocals
Sunnyland Slim   Primary Artist,Vocals,Piano
John Cameron   Sax (Tenor)
Calvin Newborn   Guitar
Al Duncan   Drums
Harold Ashby   Sax (Tenor)
Jimmy Rogers   Guitar
Billy "Red" Love   Piano
Lafayette Leake   Piano
Fred Below   Drums
Houston Stokes   Drums
S.P. Leary   Drums
Albert Williams   Piano
Ransom Knowling   Bass
Otis Rush   Guitar
Willie Dixon   Bass
George Lawson   Sax (Tenor)
Israel Franklin   Drums
Bob Woodfork   Bass,Guitar
Lee Cooper   Guitar
Al Smith   Bass
Phineas Newborn, Sr.   Drums
Blind Willie Johnson   Guitar
Kenneth Banks   Bass
Jack Kelly   Piano,Vocals
Earl Hooker   Guitar
Carey Bell   Vocals,Harmonica,Guest Artist
Johnny Jones   Piano,Vocals
Joe Willie Wilkins   Guitar
Jimmy DeBerry   Guitar
Phineas Newborn, Jr.   Piano
Pinetop Perkins   Piano
Odie Payne, Jr.   Drums
Red Holloway   Sax (Tenor)
Willie Lacey   Guitar
Edward Irvin   Drums

Technical Credits

Neil Slaven   Annotation