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Little Walter - Blue Mood
Little Walter - Blue Mood
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Elwood
394 posts
Mar 07, 2010
2:12 PM
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Can anyone tell me when this track was recorded by LW, and who wrote it? I assumed it was originally a horn song that Jacobs borrowed - yet I can't find evidence of an origianl. Also, what's the likelihood he was stinking drunk when he did it?
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Murray. The smartist formerly known as Elwood.
Last Edited by on Mar 07, 2010 2:13 PM
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Joe_L
67 posts
Mar 07, 2010
3:47 PM
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Sounds like Watermelon Man to me. It's a Herbie Hancock tune. That Little Walter/Otis Rush album really sucks. Whoever was playing the guitar that day was playing the shit out of it. It sort of sounds like Sammy Lawhorn, than Otis Rush, but who knows. Scott Dirks probably does.
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Elwood
395 posts
Mar 07, 2010
3:59 PM
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Watermelon Man!
Yeah, that's it. He ripped it off Watermelon Man.
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Murray. The smartist formerly known as Elwood.
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Joe_L
68 posts
Mar 07, 2010
4:09 PM
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In fairness, those recordings have been bootlegged for years and have been reissued under a variety of titles. They change the names of the tunes to get people to buy it. As you've found out, it's a pretty lousy recording.
I've got an LP, where the tune is labeled, "Watermelon Man". It's only a necessary addition to one's collection, if they are a Little Walter completist. It's certainly not a fitting ending to the man's recording career. That being said, Little Walter at 75% of his skills is better than most players at 100%.
Here's another one to avoid, Big Walter Horton's recordings with Hot Cottage. Most of those recordings aren't very good. They have also been released under a variety of names. They are only a must have, if you've got everything else Big Walter ever did. Even then, maybe not.
Those recordings demonstrate that even geniuses have a bad day.
Last Edited by on Mar 07, 2010 4:10 PM
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jodanchudan
50 posts
Mar 07, 2010
4:14 PM
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Found a review here:
http://www.answers.com/topic/live-in-the-windy-city
"This is a rehash of a very bad CD on the Tomato label entitled Blues Masters. It consists of extremely lo-fi recordings of Otis Rush and Little Walter performing separately with two entirely different backing groups. Purportedly recorded at the Chicago Blues Festival in 1967, the Otis Rush four-song set sounds more like a club recording than an outdoor festival date, but because the sound is so muffled and grainy, it's a tough call. There's only one real blues in the mix: the disc's opener, "It's Hard for Me to Believe, Baby." Otis then whips off two James Brown numbers, "May Be the Last Time" and "I Feel Good," before laying down the jazzy instrumental "Jambo" (here creatively titled "Otis' Blues"). The real heartbreakers come with the four Little Walter tracks. Not only is Walter at the end of the line, attempting to blow harp with a collapsed lung, but he's saddled with the lousiest, no-time-keeping bunch of hippie blues players imaginable. Walter's time gets all over the place on "You're So Fine" (here stupidly retitled "Lovin' You All the Time"), and his version of "Goin' Down Slow" is such a painful portrait of what his life had become that it'll tear your heart out. But he gamely blows with whatever he's got left on "Walter's Blues" and "Watermelon Man" (here retitled "Blue Mood." For completists only. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide"
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