UPC: 5060143494062
Format: CD (2 disc)
Release Date: Jan 01, 2011
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Recording information: 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960.
Little Walter's fiery temperament came out in his searing, jazz-inflected, and always innovative electric harp playing, and whether paired with Muddy Waters or on his own, he was simply the Jimi Hendrix of the instrument in the postwar period. This two-CD, 47-track set collects his essential tracks from the 1950s, and no one seriously interested in the blues harp can be without them. Sides like "Mean Old World," "You Better Watch Yourself," "My Babe," and the title track here, "Rock Bottom," are classics by anyone's definition. Oh, and Little Walter was a pretty good singer too, although that usually gets forgotten when he tears off into one of his amazing lead harp lines. ~ Steve Leggett
Little Walter's fiery temperament came out in his searing, jazz-inflected, and always innovative electric harp playing, and whether paired with Muddy Waters or on his own, he was simply the Jimi Hendrix of the instrument in the postwar period. This two-CD, 47-track set collects his essential tracks from the 1950s, and no one seriously interested in the blues harp can be without them. Sides like "Mean Old World," "You Better Watch Yourself," "My Babe," and the title track here, "Rock Bottom," are classics by anyone's definition. Oh, and Little Walter was a pretty good singer too, although that usually gets forgotten when he tears off into one of his amazing lead harp lines. ~ Steve Leggett
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - My Babe
2 - Juke
3 - Teenage Beat
4 - You're So Fine
5 - Tell Me Mama
6 - Too Late
7 - I Hate to See You Go
8 - Off the Wall
9 - Sad Hours
10 - Mean Old World
11 - Who
12 - Blues with a Feeling
13 - Rock Bottom
14 - Oh Baby
15 - Last Night
16 - Key to the Highway
17 - Everything's Gonna Be Alright
18 - I Had My Fun
19 - Crazy Mixed Up World
20 - Break It Up
21 - Boom Boom Out Go the Lights
22 - Back Track
23 - Blue Midnight
Disc 2:
1 - You'd Better Watch Yourself
2 - Roller Coaster
3 - One More Chance with You
4 - Mellow Down Easy
5 - Thunderbird
6 - Tonight with a Fool
7 - Temperature
8 - Quarter to Twelve
9 - Nobody But You
10 - Me and Piney Brown
11 - Flying Saucer
12 - Lights Out
13 - It Ain't Right
14 - Rocker
15 - That's Alright
16 - I Just Keep Loving Her
17 - I Got to Go
18 - Everybody Needs Somebody
19 - Don't Have to Hurt No More
20 - Confessin' the Blues
21 - Take Me Back
22 - Ah'w Baby
23 - Can't Hold Out Much Longer
24 - Blue Light
1 - My Babe
2 - Juke
3 - Teenage Beat
4 - You're So Fine
5 - Tell Me Mama
6 - Too Late
7 - I Hate to See You Go
8 - Off the Wall
9 - Sad Hours
10 - Mean Old World
11 - Who
12 - Blues with a Feeling
13 - Rock Bottom
14 - Oh Baby
15 - Last Night
16 - Key to the Highway
17 - Everything's Gonna Be Alright
18 - I Had My Fun
19 - Crazy Mixed Up World
20 - Break It Up
21 - Boom Boom Out Go the Lights
22 - Back Track
23 - Blue Midnight
Disc 2:
1 - You'd Better Watch Yourself
2 - Roller Coaster
3 - One More Chance with You
4 - Mellow Down Easy
5 - Thunderbird
6 - Tonight with a Fool
7 - Temperature
8 - Quarter to Twelve
9 - Nobody But You
10 - Me and Piney Brown
11 - Flying Saucer
12 - Lights Out
13 - It Ain't Right
14 - Rocker
15 - That's Alright
16 - I Just Keep Loving Her
17 - I Got to Go
18 - Everybody Needs Somebody
19 - Don't Have to Hurt No More
20 - Confessin' the Blues
21 - Take Me Back
22 - Ah'w Baby
23 - Can't Hold Out Much Longer
24 - Blue Light