post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
In our previous post, it looks like we gave you some bad information about a CD by Big Walter Horton. Clas Ahlstrand, who made some of those original recordings, posted a comment alerting us to the fact that this is not a legitimate recording. In fact, the CD is no longer being offered for sale on the web site that I checked two days ago. I should also point out that I don't actually have the CD....
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 01/19/2010
Welcome back to the BlueNotes. First, a word to those of you with no life, but who do have a Facebook account. BlueNotes has created his own Facebook account, complete with some of his favorite blues photos. You can check it out here . If you don't have a Facebook account, you can create one, or just go on with your life as if nothing had happened. First up today , a concert tonight at the New Hazlett...
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 12/15/2009
Last FM Also known as “Mumbles”, and “Shakey” because of his head motion while playing the harmonica, Horton was active on the Chicago blues scene during the 1960s as blues music gained popularity with white audiences. From the early 1960s onward, he recorded and appeared frequently as a sideman with Eddie Taylor, Johnny Shines, Johnny Young, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon and...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Here's a great video clip from the American Folk Blues Festival in Germany in 1965. It came my way in a newsletter from Bob Corritore , a Phoenix blues harp player, who's obviously a fan of harp players. This clip shows Big Mama Thornton , Big Walter Horton , J.B. Lenoir , Dr. Ross , and John Lee Hooker , taking turns on harp at the festival. Maybe you've seen this. I hadn't, and it's a lot of fun...
jerrywynn2009 | 10/16/2009
Big Walter Horton With Carey Bell >>>> Download With Carey Bell <<<< artist: Big Walter Horton album: With Carey Bell Tracklist: 1 Have A Good Time mp3 2 Christine mp3 3 Lovin My Baby mp3 4 Little Boy Blue mp3 5 Can't Hold out Much Longer mp3 6 Under the Sun mp3 7 Tell Me Baby mp3 8 Have Mercy mp3 9 That Ain't it mp3 10 Temptation Blues mp3 11 Trouble in Mind mp3 >>>>
Noise Pollution (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
The harmonica Seeing The Dingoes first live performance for 30 years at the ARIA Hall Of Fame induction ceremony reminded me of what a truly great band they were and still are, but it also reminded me of an instrument that has all but disappeared from contemporary rock music; the harmonica. Broderick Smith's expressive harmonica playing was an integral part of the band's success, but back in the Seventies...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
KANSAS CITY RED - Bluestown Biography (born Arthur Lee Stevenson, May 07, Drew, Miss.; died May 07, 1991, Chicago, Ill.) Kansas City Red was a blues drummer who recorded little but toured and performed in Chicago clubs with dozens of noted blues artists, among them R OBERT NIGHTHAWK, EARL HOOKER, ELMORE JAMES, BIG WALTER HORTON, BLIND JOHN DAVIS, and JIMMY REED. Red became a musician when still living...
Hambone's Blues Rumshack (Free subscription) | 02/23/2009
Hambones' Blues Rumshack 29 Sorry for the delay. Tiredness and pulling the plug on the computer at the wrong moment contributed to the lateness. So on with the music. Big Walter Horton - Hard Hearted Woman Etta James - At Last Shemika Copeland - Sounds Like The Devil - Never Going Back William Elliot Whitmore - Old Devils - Animals in the Dark The King Bees - The Walk The King Bees - Help The Poor...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
Some of the most exciting sounds on the Chicago blues scene during the 1950s feature the harmonica. Big Walter Horton's "Hard-Hearted Woman"/"Back Home To Mama" was his first Chicago record under his own name. Willie Dixon produced and from then on Horton played on many Dixon-produced sessions and toured with Dixon's band for many years. Big Walter was an internationally famous...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Recording information : Wessex Studios, London, England (10/20/1965). Personnel: Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (vocals, harmonica, drums); Buddy Guy (guitars); Fred McDowell (slide guitar); Big Walter Horton (harmonica); Eddie Boyd (piano, organ); Jimmy Lee Robinson (electric bass); Fred Below (drums). This 2005 release of Big Mama Thornton's 1965 studio session in London is a pristine snapshot...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
His place on the honor roll of Chicago blues harpists long ago assured, Carey Bell truly came into his own in the '90s as a bandleader with terrific discs for Alligator and Blind Pig. He learned his distinctive harmonica riffs from the Windy City's very best (both Walters -- Little and Big -- as well as Sonny Boy Williamson II), adding his own signature effects for good measure (an otherworldly moan...
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 11/09/2007
Steve established himself on the Chicago blues scene as far back as the '70s, playing with Koko Taylor, Sunnyland Slim, Big Walter Horton, Luther Allison, and James Cotton. Now a resident of the bay area, this is his second release on Delmark Records. ------------- 1. I'll Be Your Mule (4:27) 2. Fine Lookin' Woman (3:45) 3. Hung Down Head (3:51) 4. Fittin' To Go (6:09) 5. You Were A Good Old Ride...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 10/19/2007
One of the definitive jug bands of the '20s and early '30s, this seminal group was comprised of Will Shade, Will Weldon, Hattie Hart, Charlie Polk, Walter Horton, and others, in various configurations. Guitarist/harpist Will Shade formed the Memphis Jug Band in the Beale Street section of Memphis in the mid-'20s. A few years after their formation, Shade signed a contract with Victor Records in 1927....
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 06/17/2007
Big Walter Horton, sometimes known as Shakey Walter Horton, is one of the most influential blues harmonica players of all time, and a particular pioneer in the field of amplified harmonica. He isn't as widely known as his fellow Chicago blues pioneers Little Walter or Sonny Boy Williamson II, due mostly to the fact that, as a rather shy, quiet individual, he never had much taste for leading his own...
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jerrywynn2009 | 10/16/2009
Big Walter Horton With Carey Bell >>>> Download With Carey Bell <<<< artist: Big Walter Horton album: With Carey Bell Tracklist: 1 Have A Good Time mp3 2 Christine mp3 3 Lovin My Baby mp3 4 Little Boy Blue mp3 5 Can't Hold out Much Longer mp3 6 Under the Sun mp3 7 Tell Me Baby mp3 8 Have Mercy mp3 9 That Ain't it mp3 10 Temptation Blues mp3 11 Trouble in Mind mp3 >>>> Download With Carey Bell <<<<...
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