The Best of Little Walter

在Muddy Waters的乐队成员都在钻研电布鲁斯的时候，Little Walter还是孜孜不倦地研究着口琴，并在1952年成立了自己的乐队。可惜他在1968年37岁时候就死于一次街头斗殴，这张1964年专辑是他短暂一生中最好的精选集。 这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第198位。 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 pervasive over the landscape of the instrument that this collection of singles is truly: 1) one of the all-time greatest blues harmonica albums, 2) one of the all-time greatest Chicago blues albums, and 3) one of the first ten albums you should purchase if you're building your blues collection from the ground floor up.