The Best of Little Walter [Chess] (1988)

About this title: If there's a blues harmonica player alive today who doesn't have a copy of this landmark album in their collection, they're either lying or had their copy of it 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 ... read more

Tracks:

1. My Babe [Dixon/Little Walter]
2. Sad Hours [Little Walter]
3. You're So Fine [Little Walter]
4. Last Night [Little Walter]
5. Blues With a Feeling [Little Walter]
6. Can't Hold Out Much Longer [Little Walter]
7. Juke [Little Walter]
8. Mean Old World [Little Walter]
9. Off the Wall [Little Walter]
10. You Better Watch Yourself [Little Walter]
11. Blue Lights [Jacobs]
12. Tell Me Mama [Little Walter]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.