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Track Listings
| 1. Back Home To Mama |
| 2. Hard-Hearted Woman |
| 3. Southern Woman |
| 4. Remember Me |
| 5. Card Game |
| 6. Nosey Neighbors |
| 7. Hard-Hearted Woman (Alternate) |
| 8. Back Home To Mama (Alternate) |
| 9. My Life Blues |
| 10. Up Side The Wall |
| 11. Gold Digger |
| 12. Sundown Boogie Blues |
| 13. Miss Ida |
| 14. Great Lakes Boogie |
| 15. Blues And Trouble |
| 16. Up Side The Wall (Alternate) |
Product Description
(1954 'United/States') (47:18/16) Ein wichtiges Stück Bluesgeschichte aus Chicago, enthält dieses Album doch Hortons erste Single unter eigenem Namen "Hard-Hearted Woman/Back Home To Mama" und dazu noch sechs weitere hervorragende, von Willie Dixon produzierte Titel. Alles absolute Klassiker! Quasi als Dreingabe gibt es acht Nummern von einem der mysteriösesten Chicagoer Musiker, dem hervorragenden Alfred Harris, über dessen Verbleib so gut wie nichts bekannt ist. Fazit: ein Harmonicaalbum allererster Güte! / this is an important piece of Chicago blues harmonica history. This set contains Horton's first 45, recorded under his own name, plus six more classic cuts produced by Willie Dixon. Great sound! As a very special treat you will also receive eight tracks by one the big blues mysteries, harp ace Alfred Harris. Almost nothing is known about his whereabouts. And he is worth the disc, alone. All in all a superb harmonica blues record. Highly recommended.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is truly amazing music that we just don't get to hear anymore. I had never heard of this guy until listening to radio 2 late one night; why I hadn't heard of him I don't know, a truly amazing musician!
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Solid, Brilliant, Amplified 50's Chicago Blues
20 Mar 2003
Format:Audio CD
If you are looking for great Chicago Blues this would be a good album to look into. Moments into the first track, I felt very refreshed by this album. Maybe it was Big Walter's perfect tone, or the pure, steady groove by his band (which in the first track includes Lafayette Leake, Willie Dixon and Fred Below), but whatever it was, I was hooked. The first two tracks, as the album notes point out, are Big Walter Horton's first recordings under his own name. Other tracks with Horton in them have him backing up vocalist Tommy Brown who's performance is also great.
Tracks 1-8 are with Big Walter Horton and Tracks 9-16 have Alfred "Blues King" Harris on harmonica, who is someone I was not familiar with before picking up this album. His harmonica playing is a little bit more breathy than Big Walter's but that's not bad at all, just different. A little more Jimmy Reed with some Sonny Boy Williamson II, but with a different approach than both of them. All in all, it's a great Chicago Blues album. One thing that I also like about this disc is that just about all the songs are relatively obscure and even if they are well known they haven't been overdone to my ears. I, by the way although not anything close to a Blues buff, am more of just a BIG BIG Blues fan (over 350 Blues albums and growing by the week). So really, you can see why lesser known songs make the disc sound much more refreshing for me, personally.
Tracks 1-8 are with Big Walter Horton and Tracks 9-16 have Alfred "Blues King" Harris on harmonica, who is someone I was not familiar with before picking up this album. His harmonica playing is a little bit more breathy than Big Walter's but that's not bad at all, just different. A little more Jimmy Reed with some Sonny Boy Williamson II, but with a different approach than both of them. All in all, it's a great Chicago Blues album. One thing that I also like about this disc is that just about all the songs are relatively obscure and even if they are well known they haven't been overdone to my ears. I, by the way although not anything close to a Blues buff, am more of just a BIG BIG Blues fan (over 350 Blues albums and growing by the week). So really, you can see why lesser known songs make the disc sound much more refreshing for me, personally.
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