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The one album released during his lifetime is a compilation issued by Chess Records, titled The Best of Little Walter (1958). [8] Rolling Stone magazine ranked it at number 198 in its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". [9] Little Walter died in 1968, a time when interest in electric blues shifted the
In addition to his performance albums, in 1985 Primich released an instructional double CD, Blues Harmonica: The Blues And Beyond. [4] In June 1999, at the Montgomery Theater in San Jose, California, Primich undertook a performance and series of workshops with Howard Levy, Magic Dick, Gary Smith, Lee Oskar, Jerry Portnoy, and Andy Santana. [5]
Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica had a strong impact on succeeding generations, earning him comparisons to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix. [1]
Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. [1] They come from different eras and include styles such as ragtime - vaudeville , Delta and country blues , and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast . [ 2 ]
Slim Harpo (born Isiah Moore or James Isaac Moore; February 11, 1924 [a] – January 31, 1970) [1] [2] was an American blues musician, a leading exponent of the swamp blues style, and "one of the most commercially successful blues artists of his day". [3] He played guitar and was a master of the blues harmonica, known in
Billed with his backing band as Harper and Midwest Kind, his most recent release the 2020 Rise Up album debuted at No.3 on the Billboard Blues Album Charts . This new release is an expansive musical and lyrical journey, stirred up with masterful harp and the deep, woody percussive tones of the didgeridoo.
1993: 3 Harp Boogie reissue of Two Sides of the Blues. 1994: Living the Blues (Verve) 1995: Best of the Verve Years (Verve) compilation of The James Cotton Blues Band, Pure Cotton, and Cotton in Your Ears. 1996: Deep in the Blues (Verve) 1999: Best of the Vanguard Years (Vanguard) compilation of Chicago/The Blues/Today!, Vol. 2, and Cut You Loose!.
(1990), an album featuring the harmonica playing of James Cotton, Junior Wells, Carey Bell, and Billy Branch. Gruenling later stated "I made my uncle play the record for me and I was blown away by what I heard. I hadn’t heard real blues players before – or real blues music in general. I was knocked out by the music and the harmonica playing."