Blowin' the Blues [Box]

Performer: Little Walter
Artist: Otis Rush; Muddy Waters; John Brim; Jimmy Rogers; Memphis Minnie; Floyd Jones; Johnny Shines
Distributor: Allegro Corporation (Dist

Notes: Personnel: Little Walter (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, Willie Dixon, Bo Diddley. Although he sang on occasion, and played guitar, too, Little Walter will always be revered for his harmonica skills, and in his own way he was the John Coltrane of the instrument, creating and shaping the sound of the "Mississippi saxophone" into the very template of the Chicago blues style, and any short list of blues harp players starts with this amazing musician. This three-disc, 60-track set provides a balanced overview of Little Walter's career, and includes solo sides as well as samples of his work with the likes of Otis Rush, Muddy Waters, John Brim, Johnny Shines, Jimmy Rogers, and Memphis Minnie. Wonderful set. ~ Steve Leggett

Little Walter invented the overdriven, reverb-soaked harmonica sound that came to epitomize Chicago blues. Beginning in the late 1940s and early '50s, first as Muddy Waters' sideman and later as a soloist, Little Walter altered the role of the harmonica in the blues band and influenced thousands of blues harpists in the process.

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