num_pages: 344
description: Whenever you hear the prevalent wailing blues harmonica in commercials film soundtracks or at a blues club you are experiencing the legacy of the master harmonica player Little Walter. Immensely popular in his lifetime Little Walter had fourteen Top 10 hits on the R&amp;B charts and he was also the first Chicago blues musician to play at the Apollo. Ray Charles and B.B. King great blues artists in their own right were honored to sit in with his band. However at the age of 37 he lay in a pauper's grave in Chicago. This book will tell the story of a man whose music life and struggles continue to resonate to this day.
language: English
title: Blues with a Feeling: The Little Walter Story
publisher: Routledge