Every now and then you gotta go back and listen to the all-time greats just to remind yourself why you decided to pick up the Misssissippi Saxaphone to begin with. For me, it's Little Walter (and Magic Dick......uh and Paul Butterfield, ah geez I think I'm inadvertently starting a list, and I hate lists the way Indy hates snakes) everyone else comes after them. Ha!
This Cat just oozed cool.......out of every freaking pore.
Last Edited by Honkin On Bobo on Aug 31, 2017 2:38 PM
I enjoy these clips of Walter perhaps because there are few video clips of him playing and because of the live feel.
I love the band - Hound Dog Taylor, Odie Payne, and Dillard Crume, but this was not an all-star cast to showcase stars. Little Walter was physically past his prime and about six months from passing. Hound Dog Taylor, a fun, rough, slide guitar player laid down basics but did not have the backing finesse of Lockwood and Tucker. Odie Payne? A nice guy and good drummer who could swing and mug for the cameras but not like having Fred Below anchoring the rhythm section. On bass? Dillard Crume - a gospel legend with the Soul Stirrers and Highway QC's - as singer, guitarist, bassist & producer but not a blues guy and a fairly condescending MC.
These provide an interesting snapshot in time. I've watched them so many times but always wishing someone would discover the missing "LW in his prime" videos hidden in an old shoe box in the basement. ---------- BnT
