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As MCA reconfigures their Chess catalog, this 20-track single-disc compilation now takes the place of their original 12-track Best of Little Walter collection, a landmark blues album which had remained in print for over three decades. His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) reprises ten of those seminal tracks (leaving off the echoey "Blue Light" and "You Better Watch Yourself," the latter being available on the two-disc anthology The Essential Little Walter) and brings ten others cherry-picked from the catalog to the mix. If you've never experienced the innovative instrumental genius of Little Walter, classics like "Juke," "Off the Wall," "Mean Old World," "Sad Hours," "Blues with a Feeling," "My Babe," "Boom Out Goes the Light," "Last Night," "Mellow Down Easy" and "Roller Coaster" (written by Bo Diddley, who also guests on guitar) will come as a major revelation. These are the recordings that changed the sound and style of blues harmonica forever, and everyone who came after him was as influenced by him as jazz saxophonists were by Charlie Parker. Everyone who fancies themselves a blues harmonica player should have this one in their collection as a textbook instructional tool, while the rest of us can just bask in the glow of his genius. "Essential first purchase" doesn't even begin to describe it.
© Cub Koda /TiVo
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Muddy Waters, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Walter Jacobs, Composer - Little Walter, Harmonica, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Rogers, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Elgin Evans, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 UMG Recordings, Inc.
WILLIE DIXON, Producer - Walter Jacobs, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, MainArtist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1952 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Walter Jacobs, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1952 UMG Recordings, Inc.
WILLIE DIXON, Producer - Walter Jacobs, Composer - Little Walter, MainArtist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1952 UMG Recordings, Inc.
WILLIE DIXON, Producer - Walter Jacobs, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, MainArtist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1953 UMG Recordings, Inc.
WILLIE DIXON, Producer - Walter Jacobs, Composer - Little Walter, MainArtist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1953 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Walter Jacobs, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, MainArtist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1953 UMG Recordings, Inc.
WILLIE DIXON, Producer - Walter Jacobs, Author - Little Walter, MainArtist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1953 UMG Recordings, Inc.
WILLIE DIXON, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, MainArtist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1953 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Walter Jacobs, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1954 UMG Recordings, Inc.
WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, MainArtist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1954 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Leonard Caston, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - WILLIE DIXON, Producer, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, Harmonica, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Lockwood, Jr., Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Below, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1955 UMG Recordings, Inc.
ELLAS MCDANIEL, Composer - Little Walter, MainArtist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1955 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Walter Jacobs, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1955 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Walter Jacobs, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, MainArtist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Little Walter, MainArtist - Stan Lewis, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Walter Jacobs, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, MainArtist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Charles Segar, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, MainArtist - William Lee Conley Broonzy, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Walter Jacobs, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, MainArtist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Walter Jacobs, ComposerLyricist - Little Walter, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
As MCA reconfigures their Chess catalog, this 20-track single-disc compilation now takes the place of their original 12-track Best of Little Walter collection, a landmark blues album which had remained in print for over three decades. His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) reprises ten of those seminal tracks (leaving off the echoey "Blue Light" and "You Better Watch Yourself," the latter being available on the two-disc anthology The Essential Little Walter) and brings ten others cherry-picked from the catalog to the mix. If you've never experienced the innovative instrumental genius of Little Walter, classics like "Juke," "Off the Wall," "Mean Old World," "Sad Hours," "Blues with a Feeling," "My Babe," "Boom Out Goes the Light," "Last Night," "Mellow Down Easy" and "Roller Coaster" (written by Bo Diddley, who also guests on guitar) will come as a major revelation. These are the recordings that changed the sound and style of blues harmonica forever, and everyone who came after him was as influenced by him as jazz saxophonists were by Charlie Parker. Everyone who fancies themselves a blues harmonica player should have this one in their collection as a textbook instructional tool, while the rest of us can just bask in the glow of his genius. "Essential first purchase" doesn't even begin to describe it.
© Cub Koda /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 00:57:04
- Main artists: Little Walter
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Geffen
- Genre: Blues/country/folk Blues
© 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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