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His Best (Little Walter album)

His Best
Blues musician Little Walter playing a chromatic harmonica.
Greatest hits album by Little Walter
Released June 17, 1997 (1997-06-17)
Recorded May 12, 1952 – December 1960 in Chicago, Illinois
Genre Chicago blues
Label Chess/MCA
Producer Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Willie Dixon, Andy McKaie
Compiler Andy McKaie, Billy Altman
Little Walter chronology
Confessin' the Blues
(November 1996)
His Best
(June 1997)
Little Walter & Otis Rush
(2000)

His Best is a greatest hits album by Chicago blues harmonica player Little Walter, released on June 17, 1997 by MCA and Chess Records as a part of The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection (see 1997 in music). The album is seen as the CD successor to the 1958 The Best of Little Walter and features ten of the songs from that album.

"Juke" was Little Walters first solo recording for Leonard Chess and reached #1 on the R&B Singles chart. A harmonica instrumental, it is Walter's most famous composition.

Adapted from a 1942 T-Bone Walker song, "Mean Old World" became a #6 R&B chart success for Walter.

Walter's rendition reached #2 on the R&B Single chart and made the song a harmonica-blues standard. "Blues with a Feeling" was originally recorded by Rabon Tarrant with Jack McVea and His All Stars in 1947.

Written by Willie Dixon, "My Babe" was Walter's second #1 on the R&B Charts. It is perhaps Walter's best-known vocal performance.

The song "Roller Coaster" is an instrumental version of the 1955 Bo Diddley song "You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)". The song reached #6 on the R&B charts.

Although "It Ain't Right" did not chart, it was later adapted by other musicians, including John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, who recorded it as the closing track to their debut album Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (Clapton has identified Little Walter as his favorite harmonica player).


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