If there's a blues harmonica player alive today who doesn't have this landmark album in their collection, they're either lying or had their copy stolen by another harmonica player. This 12-song collection is the one that every harmonica player across the board cut their teeth on. All the hits are here:
"My Babe,"
"Blues With a Feeling,"
"You Better Watch Yourself,"
"Off the Wall,"
"Mean Old World,"
and the instrumental that catapulted him from the sideman chair in
Muddy Waters
' band to the top of the R&B charts in 1952,
"Juke."
Walter
's influence to this very day is so pervasive over the landscape of the instrument that this collection of singles is truly one of the all-time greatest blues harmonica albums, one of the all-time greatest Chicago blues albums, and one of the first ten albums you should purchase if you're building your blues collection from the ground floor up. ~ Cub Koda