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Little Walter

The Complete Chess Masters (1950-1967)

Disc 1
1. Evans Shuffle
2. Juke
3. Juke (alternate)
4. Cant Hold Out Much Longer
5. Cant Hold Out Much Longer (alternate)
6. Blue Midnight (alternate)
7. Blue Midnight
8. Boogie
9. Mean Old World
10. Sad Hours
11. Fast Boogie
12. Fast Boogie (alternate take 1) *
13. Fast Boogie (alternate take 2) *
14. Fast Boogie (alternate take 3)
15. Dont Need No Horse
16. Driftin
17. Driftin (alternate take)*
18. Dont Have To Hunt No More
19. Crazy Legs
20. Tonight With A Fool
21. Off The Wall (alternate)
22. Off The Wall
23. Tell Me Mama
24. Quarter To Twelve
25. Thats It
Disc 2
1. Blues With A Feeling (alternate)
2. Blues With A Feeling
3. Last Boogie
4. Too Late
5. Fast Boogie
6. Lights Out
7. Fast Large One
8. Youre So Fine
9. My Kind Of Baby
10. Come Back Baby
11. Rocker
12. I Love You So (Oh Baby)
13. Oh Baby
14. I Got To Find My Baby (alternate)
15. I Got To Find My Baby
16. Big Leg Mama
17. My Babe (Mercy Babe)
18. Last Night (first version)
19. Youd Better Watch Yourself
20. Blue Light
21. Instrumental
22. Last Night
23. Mellow Down Easy
24. My Babe
25. My Babe (overdubbed version)
Disc 3
1. Thunderbird
2. Roller Coaster
3. I Got To Go
4. Hate To See You Go (extended)
5. Little Girl
6. Crazy For My Baby
7. Cant Stop Loving You
8. One More Chance With You
9. Who
10. Boom, Boom Out Go The Lights
11. It Aint Right
12. Flying Saucer
13. Its Too Late Brother
14. Teenage Beat
15. Take Me Back
16. Just A Feeling
17. Nobody But You
18. Temperature (version 1)
19. Shake Dancer
20. Everybody Needs Somebody
21. Temperature (alternate -1)
22. Temperature (alternate 2) *
23. Temperature (take 30)
24. Temperature (take 35-38)
25. Temperature (version 2)
26. Ahw Baby (alternate)
27. Ahw Baby
Disc 4
1. Ive Had My Fun (alternate)
2. Ive Had My Fun (alternate -2) *
3. Ive Had My Fun
4. The Tottle (The Toddle)
5. Confessin The Blues
6. Key To The Highway
7. Rock Bottom
8. Rock Bottom
9. Walkin On (Rock Bottom alternate)
10. You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby) (take 5) *
11. You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby) (alternate)
12. You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby)
13. One Of These Mornings (instrumental) *
14. Baby
15. My Baby Is Sweeter (alternate)
16. My Baby Is Sweeter
17. Crazy Mixed Up World (alternate)
18. Crazy Mixed Up World
19. Worried Life (alternate)
20. Worried Life
21. Everthings Gonna Be Alright (take 1)
22. Everythings Gonna Be Alright (alternate 1)
23. Everythings Gonna Be Alright (alternate 2)
24. Everythings Gonna Be Alright
25. Mean Old Frisco (alternate)
26. Mean Old Frisco
Disc 5
1. Back Track
2. One Of These Mornings
3. Blue And Lonesome (alternate)
4. Blue And Lonesome
5. Me And Piney Brown
6. Break It Up
7. Going Down Slow
8. Youre Sweet
9. I Dont Play
10. As Long As I Have You
11. You Dont Know
12. Just Your Fool
13. Up The Line
14. Im A Business Man
15. Dead Presidents
16. Southern Feeling
17. Back In The Alley
18. I Feel So Bad (take 1)
19. I Feel So Bad (take 2)
20. Chicken Shack
21. Feel So Bad *
22. Make It Alright *
23. Juke

Price: $79.98

CD Edition limited to 5000 non-numbered limited edition copies.

RELEASE DATE: March 6, 2009

As shown in the Chess Records bio film, “Cadillac Records,” in the world of pop, rock and blues harmonica, there are two distinct eras: before Little Walter and post Little Walter. A featured player in the story of Chess, Walter took a mostly dismissed instrument and elevated it to a centerpiece of the rock and blues world by coupling it with cheap microphones and easily overloaded amplifiers. The effect created a totally new spectrum of sounds, and made Marion Walter Jacobs a deity of the harmonica thereafter.

It also didn’t hurt that Little Walter had a string of 14 Top 10 R&B hits between 1952 and 1958, including a pair of #1s, “Juke” and “My Babe.” Walter also recorded virtually a blues songbook, songs that have been played in bars, on stages and on record by untold bands ever since: “You’re So Fine,” “Blues With A Feeling,” “Mean Old World,’ “Boom, Boom Out Go The Lights,” “Key To The Highway,” and “Confessin’ The Blues,” among others.

Made for Chess Records between 1950 and 1967, the 126 recordings on the five CDs here present an amazing recorded portrait by this gifted performer. Starting with a Walter lead recorded with Muddy Waters in 1950, this set contains all of his solo masters for the label, featuring all of the hits and 9 previously unreleased recordings including a pair of songs recorded with Bo Diddley, “Feel So Bad” and “Make It Alright.” The majority of these recordings have not been available anywhere for well over a decade.

There are also complete track by track credits, numerous period photos, and extensive liner notes by Tony Glover, Scott Dirks & Ward Gaines, the authors of the definitive Little Walter biography, “Blues With A Feeling/The Little Walter Story.”

-        126 Killer Blues Tracks On 5 CDs
-        9 Previously Unreleased Recordings Including A Pair with Bo Diddley
-         Includes #1 R&B hits “Juke” and “My Babe” and 12 Other Top 10 R&B Hits
-        Track By Track Credits
-        Extensive Liner Notes by Little Walter Biographers Tony Glover, Scott Dirks & Ward Gaines