Little Walter Music

About Little Walter

Origin: Marksville, LA

Decades: 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's

Who's the king of all postwar blues harpists, Chicago division or otherwise? Why, the virtuosic Little Walter, without a solitary doubt. The fiery harmonica wizard took the humble mouth organ in dazzling amplified directions that were unimaginable prior to his ascendancy. His daring instrumental innovations were so fresh, startling, and ahead of their time that they sometimes sported a jazz sensibility, soaring and swooping in front of snarling guitars and swinging rhythms perfectly suited to Walter's pione... Read More

Influences on Little Walter

Big Bill Broonzy

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Jimi Hendrix, Carey Bell, Little Sonny, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Sam Myers

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lacilove21
Texarkana, ArUs
Thursday June 11 2009 01:06 PM
“ old daddy longleggs was a great harmonica player too ”
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lacilove21
Texarkana, ArUs
Thursday June 11 2009 01:03 PM
“ If little walters music dont lift you up nothing in this world will ”
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lacilove21
Texarkana, ArUs
Saturday May 02 2009 12:42 PM
“ a good blues harmonica player only his volcano temper got the best of him and his hard drinking he died to soon but we got his music; ”
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Monday February 09 2009 11:59 PM
“ I think he was the best harm player in the whole chitterling circut! ”
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sabrina
Newport News, VaUs
Monday January 26 2009 01:21 AM
“ i love his music thanks to my dady i had real music all kinds only the greatest artis. they don't make real music like that any more ”
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cn123
Texarkana, ArUs
Friday February 15 2008 02:54 PM
“ little walter the best harmonica player there was ”
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