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"Maybe the best book I've ever read concerning music or any music personality.."
-Blues Notes
"Indispensable.."
-The Times (London)
"Noted blues scholars...paint a picture of Walter as a fiery, independent soul.."
---Library Journal
"Given his standing in the world of blues, it's amazing that it has taken so long for an in-depth book on Marion Walter Jacobs to appear, but be in no doubt that the wait has been well worth it. Reading like a novel, but one which even Walter Mosley might have struggled to plot with credibility, the story of the ultimately deeply-troubled genius progenitor of contemporary blues harmonica is unfolded in an enthralling manner by a triumvirate of authors notably well-qualified for the task."
-Bill Moodie, "Juke Blues(UK)
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Little Walter was a master blues harmonica player, immensely popular and celebrated by the likes of Ray Charles and B.B. King. But at the age of 37 he was lying in a pauper's grave in Chicago: This book tells the story of his fame and early death.
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"Maybe the best book I've ever read concerning music or any music personality.."
-Blues Notes
"Indispensable.."
-The Times (London)
"Noted blues scholars...paint a picture of Walter as a fiery, independent soul.."
---Library Journal
"Given his standing in the world of blues, it's amazing that it has taken so long for an in-depth book on Marion Walter Jacobs to appear, but be in no doubt that the wait has been well worth it. Reading like a novel, but one which even Walter Mosley might have struggled to plot with credibility, the story of the ultimately deeply-troubled genius progenitor of contemporary blues harmonica is unfolded in an enthralling manner by a triumvirate of authors notably well-qualified for the task."
-Bill Moodie, "Juke Blues(UK)
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Little Walter was a master blues harmonica player, immensely popular and celebrated by the likes of Ray Charles and B.B. King. But at the age of 37 he was lying in a pauper's grave in Chicago: This book tells the story of his fame and early death.
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The true circumstances of Little Walter's early life-of his birth, his family, and his upbringing-are cloaked in deep layers of myth and thick mists of time, more than for any other blues musician who reached his level of fame and prominence in the second half of the 20th century. Read the first page
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The true circumstances of Little Walter's early life-of his birth, his family, and his upbringing-are cloaked in deep layers of myth and thick mists of time, more than for any other blues musician who reached his level of fame and prominence in the second half of the 20th century. Read the first page
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