Little Walter
リトル・ウォルター
- BORN: May 1, 1930, Marksville, Louisiana
1930年5月1日、ルイジアナ州マークスヴィル生まれ - DIED: February 15, 1968, Chicago, Illinois
1968年2月15日、イリノイ州シカゴで死去 - vocals harmonica guitar
'50年代に、それまで目立たない楽器だったハープ(ハーモニカ)を、シカゴ・ブルースにかかせないものにした革命家。アンプを使って音を増幅させたハープを、サックスのように激しく吹き鳴らし、戦後ブルースの巨人に。しかし、1950年代中盤以降、彼の人気は凋落の一途をたどり、1968年にケンカの傷がもとで亡くなってしまった。一世を風靡したマディ・ウォーターズのサウンドを、マディやジミー・ロジャースとともに作り上げた。またフレッド・ビロウ、ロバート・ジュニア・ロックウッドらをバックに、ソロ・アーティストとしても活動。インストゥルメンタル曲「ジューク」など名曲を残す。
Recordings
- 1947, Chicago, Illinois
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- Ora-Nelle Blues (That's All Right)
- Ora Nelle Blues
- I Just Keep Loving Her
- I Just Keep Loving Her
- May 14, 1949, Chicago, Illinois
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- Blue Baby
- I Want My Baby
- January 1950, Chicago, Illinois
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- I Just Keep Loving Her
- Muskadine Blues
- Moonshine Blues
- Bad Actin' Woman
- May 12, 1952, Chicago, Illinois
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- Juke
- Juke
- Can't Hold Out Much Longer
- Can't Hold Out Much Longer
- October 1952, Chicago, Illinois
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- Blue Midnight
- Blue Midnight (alternate take)
- Boogie
- Mean Old World - @YouTube
- Sad Hours
- January 1953, Chicago, Illinois
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- Fast Boogie
- Fast Boogie
- Fast Boogie (alternate take)
- Fast Boogie (alternate take)
- Don't Need No Horse
- Driftin'
- Driftin' (alternate take)
- circa March 1953, Chicago, Illinois
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- Don't Have To Hunt No More
- Crazy Legs
- Tonight With A Fool
- Elder Beck
- Off The Wall (alternate take)
- Off The Wall
- Tell Me Mama
- July 23, 1953, Chicago, Illinois
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- Quarter To Twelve
- That's It
- Blues With A Feeling (alternate take)
- Blues With A Feeling
- Last Boogie
- Too Late
- Fast Boogie
- Lights Out
- Fast Large One
- You're So Fine
- My Kind Of Baby
- February 22, 1954, Chicago, Illinois
- May 22, 1954, Chicago, Illinois
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- I Got To Find My Baby (alternate take)
- I Got To Find My Baby
- Big Leg Mama
- July 1, 1954, Chicago, Illinois
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- My Babe - @YouTube
- Last Night
- July 14, 1954, Chicago, Illinois
- October 5, 1954, Chicago, Illinois
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- Instrumental
- Last Night
- Mellow Down Easy
- January 25, 1955, Chicago, Illinois
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- Thunder Bird
- My Babe
- My Babe
- April 28, 1955, Chicago, Illinois
- July 14, 1955, Chicago, Illinois
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- Little Girl, Little Girl
- Crazy For My Baby
- Can't Stop Lovin' You
- December 1955, Chicago, Illinois
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- One More Chance With You
- Who
- Boom Boom Out Goes The Lights
- It Ain't Right
- March 9, 1956, Chicago, Illinois
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- Flying Saucer
- July 27, 1956, Chicago, Illinois
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- (It's) Too Late Brother
- Teenage Beat
- Take Me Back
- Just A Feeling
- March 5, 1957, Chicago, Illinois
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- Nobody But You
- Temperature
- Shake Dancer
- Everybody Needs Somebody
- June 20, 1957, Chicago, Illinois
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- Temperature (take 6)
- Temperature (alternate take)
- Temperature (take 24)
- Temperature (take 30)
- Temperature (takes 35 to 38)
- Ah'w Baby
- Ah'w Baby (alternate take)
- I've Had My Fun (alternate take)
- I've Had My Fun (alternate take)
- I've Had My Fun
- January 1958, Chicago, Illinois
- August 1958, Chicago, Illinois
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- Key To The Highway
- Walkin' On
- Rock Bottom (take 9)
- Rock Bottom (take 10)
- January 1959, Chicago, Illinois
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- You Gonna Be Sorry
- You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby)
- You Gonna Be Sorry (alternate take)
- One Of These Mornings (instrumental track)
- February 25, 1959, Chicago, Illinois
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- Baby
- My Baby Is Sweeter (take 10)
- My Baby Is Sweeter (take 11)
- Crazy Mixed Up World (take 3)
- Crazy Mixed-Up World (take 6)
- Worried Life
- Worried Life Blues
- July 21, 1959, Chicago, Illinois
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- Everything's Gonna Be Alright (takes 1, 2)
- Everything's Gonna Be Alright (alternate take)
- Everything's Gonna Be Alright (alternate take)
- Everything's Gonna Be Alright
- Mean Old Frisco (takes 1, 2 + studio chatter)
- Mean Old Frisco (alternate take)
- Mean Old Frisco
- Back Track
- August 12, 1959, Chicago, Illinois
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- One Of These Mornings
- Blue And Lonesome
- Blue And Lonesome (alternate take)
- November 1959, Chicago, Illinois
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- Me And Piney Brown
- Break It Up
- December 1959, Chicago, Illinois
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- Going Down Slow
- My Desire
- You're So Sweet
- December 1960, Chicago, Illinois
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- I Don't Play
- As Long As I Have You
- You Don't Know
- Just You Fool
- February 5, 1963, Chicago, Illinois
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- Up The Line
- I'm A Business Man
- Dead Presidents
- Southern Feeling
- February 1966, Chicago, Illinois
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- Back In The Alley
- I Feel So Bad (take 1)
- I Feel So Bad (take 2)
- Chicken Shack
- May 20, 1966, Chicago, Illinois
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- Goin' Down Slow
- Walter's Blues
- Lovin' You All The Time
- Blue Mood
- January 4, 1967, Chicago, Illinois
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- My Babe (Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter)
- I'm A Man (Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter)
- Who Do You Love (Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter)
- Juke (Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter)
- Long Distance Call (Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter)
- Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter)
- I Just Want To Make Love To You (Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter)
- You Don't Love Me (Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter)
- You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover (Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter)
- Studio Chatter (Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter)
- Sad Hours (Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter)
- Feel So Bad
- Make It Alright
- October 15, 1967, American Folk Blues Festival, West Berlin
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- You're So Fine
- Walter's Jump
- Mean Old World