1955

IT AIN'T RIGHT * LITTLE WALTER * CHECKER 833 * USA

Harmonica player Little Walter, who's real name was Marion Walter Jacobs, was born Alexandria Louisiana May 1st 1930 and died thirty eight years later in Chicago. He first recorded for the Chicago based Ora Nelle label in 1947, but it was while a member of the, then, very modernist, ensemble blues band of Muddy Waters in the early 1950s that he first came to prominence at Chess. The line up on this record is Little Walter vocals and harmonica, Robert Lockwood Jr., David Miles, guitars, Willie Dixon bass, and Fred Below drums.


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