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Today’s Music: Ray Charles, Lurrie Bell, Little Walter

Bluesday today. Ray Charles does it up on “I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town”: And Lurrie Bell is “Smokin’ Dynamite”: While Little Walter has the “Fast Boogie” on his mind: (Birthdays will return tomorrow.)

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Today’s Music: Koko Taylor and Little Walter, “Wang Dang Doodle” (1967)

Koko Taylor and Little Walter do a stripped-down version of the Willie Dixon blues classic that was Koko’s only hit record.

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Today’s Music: Little Walter, “Juke” and “My Babe”

Marion Walter Jacobs, AKA ‘Little Walter’, along with Big Walter Horton and a couple of others, defined the ‘Chicago Saxophone’ sound on the harmonica way back in the 1950s. Instead of playing first position ‘country’ harp, Walter moved to second … Continue reading

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