Just an idea for a thread. I stumbled across this one, which I hadn't seen before. It isn't spectacular in any respect. It's just the real thing doing its thing, with George Smith on harp. Please post away!
Actually, I've got a good question for the serious blues nerds. Is there any footage, anywhere, of Muddy and Little Walter on the same stage or in the same space? Same for Muddy and Big Walter. Same for Muddy and Junior Wells.
From the under rated album "Muddy Waters Woodstock Album", this features some of the best harmonica work Paul Butterfield ever recorded. This song is fine , funky and beautifully sung by Muddy, and Butter's harp is sublime all regards; his fills are sly commentaries and commiserations with what Muddy had sung, his tone is mournful while still looking for a brighter side, his solo turn is choicely phrased and executed. He is the king of tone and had the best vibrato in the business.
Junior Wells is amazing on Standin Around Cryin. I thought for years it was Walter but I was dead wrong. Before Junior got into the funkier side of blues he could play with the best of them in chicago form. Mean and Dirty.
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I have never seen anything with walter and muddy together. If there was such footage I would watch it allday and night. Imagine finding footage of Jimmy, Muddy and Walter back in the day in a bar in Chicago. That would be some stunning stuff. It always blew my mind how Walter sold more records and had more hits than any of them and no one every thought to video tape it. I mean in 1953 Little Walter must have sounded like space music like Hendrix did later on. His sound was so far ahead of it's time it's blows me away noone got it on camera
