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- Artist: Little Walter
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- Release Date: 1988
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Blues
Review
If you really want to hear what Little Walter sounded like in his pre-amplified days and early stages of development with the Muddy Waters band, this is the one to get. The title is a bit of a misnomer as Walter is featured more as a sideman to Baby Face Leroy, Muddy Waters and others on early Parkway, Regal and Savoy sides, but it's clear that Walter at this stage of the game should have been paying royalties to both Sonny Boys and Walter Horton in particular. One of the high points features explosive slide work from Waters on a pre-Chess version of "Rollin' & Tumblin'," as crude as a version as you'll ever hear and certainly not to be missed. Although many of these sides have appeared on other compilations (usually taped up off of old scratchy 78s), this one features superior sound taken from the original lacquer masters. ~ Cub Koda, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| I Just Keep Loving Her | Little Walter, |
(2:52) | |
| Muskadine Blues | Little Walter | Little Walter, |
(3:10) |
| Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 1 | McKinley Morganfield, Muddy Waters | Little Walter, |
(2:47) |
| Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 2 | Traditional | Little Walter, |
(3:12) |
| Boll Weevil | Traditional | Little Walter, |
(2:41) |
| Bad Acting Woman | Little Walter, |
(2:43) | |
| Red Headed Woman | Leroy Foster, |
Little Walter, |
(2:43) |
| Moonshine Blues | Little Walter, Ma Rainey | Little Walter, |
(2:51) |
| I Wanna Play a Little While | J.B. Lenoir | (2:44) | |
| Louise | J.B. Lenoir | J.B. Lenoir | (2:56) |
| People Are Meddling (In Our Affairs) | J.B. Lenoir | J.B. Lenoir | (2:51) |
| I Done You Wrong | Little Walter | (2:42) | |
| Low Down Sunnyland Train | Little Walter | (2:48) |
