Little Walter - Quarter to Twelve
Recorded between 1954 & 1964
Label: Red Lightning 
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Who's the king of all postwar blues harpists, Chicago division or otherwise? Why, the virtuosic Little Walter, without a solitary doubt. The fiery harmonica wizard took the humble mouth organ in dazzling amplified directions that were unimaginable prior to his ascendancy. His daring instrumental innovations were so fresh, startling, and ahead of their time that they somearial sported a jazz sensibility, soaring and swooping in front of snarling guitars and swinging rhythms perfectly suited to Walter's pioneering flights of fancy.
Marion Walter Jacobs was by most accounts an unruly but vastly talented youth who abandoned his rural Louisiana home for the bright lights of New Orleans at age 12. Walter gradually journeyed north from there, pausing in Helena (where he hung out with the wizened Sonny Boy Williamson), Memphis, and St. Louis before arriving in Chicago in 1946.

 Tracklist:

1. Quarter To Twelve
2. Mellow Down Easy 
3. Lights Out 
4. I Hate To See You Go
5. My Baby Is Sweeter 
6. Crazy Mixed Up World 
7. Rocker 
8. Oh Baby 
9. Blue Midnight
10. It Ain't Right 
11. Who 
12. Back Track 
13. Everything Gonna Be Allright 
14. Crazy Legs 
15. Crazy For My Baby 
16. The Toddle 


Bass – Willie Dixon 
Drums – Fred Below , George Hunter
Guitar – David Myers , Fred Robertson , Louis Myers , Luther Tucker , Robert Lockwood Jr.
Piano – Otis Span
Harmonica – Little Walter
Vocals – Little Walter