Little Walter "Boss Blues Harmonica" double LP set 1972 Chess CH 60014 NM

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This double album of Little Walter "Boss Blues Harmonica" on Chess CH 60014 released in 1972 is a great collection of his phenomenal playing. The cover is VG+ (light wear on edge) and vinyl is Neat Mint- (light surface marks on one LP).
He was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, the first and, to date, only artist to be inducted specifically as a harmonica player.
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. His virtuosity and musical innovations fundamentally altered many listeners' expectations of what was possible on blues harmonica.
Boss Blues Harmonica, released in 1972, was at the time the most comprehensive collection of Little Walter’s quintessential blues harmonica recordings ever compiled. It was, literally, the best of Little Walter and more: the first disc was a straight reissue of the 1958 LP The Best of Little Walter, which featured Walter mostly in the company of Muddy Waters and Jimmy Rogers from the early ’50s, while disc two extended the survey to include combos with Robert Lockwood, Luther Tucker, and others from 1955 to 1959. In his excellent liner notes Pete Welding makes the case for Walter as unquestionably the single finest blues artist to have been produced by the postwar Chicago blues movement, asserting that Muddy, Elmore James, and other Chicago blues masters were essentially playing country blues that had been brought to the city while Walter’s music was forged in the crucible of the emerging and maturing postwar Chicago blues.
Disc 1: My Babe/Sad Hours/You’re So Fine/Last Night/Blues With A Feeling/Can’t Hold Out Much Longer//Juke/Mean Old World/Off The Wall/You Better Watch Yourself/Blue Lights/Tell Me Mama; Disc 2: Back Track/It’s Too Late Brother/Just A Feeling/Teenage Beat/Just Your Fool/Flying Saucer//I Got To Go/Shake Dancer/Too Late/Thunderbird/Ah’w Baby/Boom Boom Out Go the Lights -------------------------------------- As always there might be an occasional tick or pop on some of the vinyl which can be remedied by professional cleaning and using "Last" preservative to recondition the vinyl. All vinyl (except for sealed albums and new Mosaic Boxes) have been ultrasonic cleaned but LPs need to be cleaned every couple of years. All albums come with an external plastic protective cover. Wherever I can I include the original inner sleeve but put cleaned vinyl in a new white non-toxic paper sleeve. Wherever I can I include the original inner sleeve but put cleaned vinyl in a new white non-toxic paper sleeve.
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