Hip-O to release complete Little Walter Chess recordings

[AllenLowe]

yes, the Rollin and Tumbling takes are on a CD - HOWEVER, and I hate to sound like a purist, but if you can find the LP get it, as the CD de-noising took a lot of the presence out of it - and these are extremely clear recordings with a little bit of (tolerable) noise -

[Chuck Nessa]

Allen is correct. I kept my lp for that very reason.

[John L]

That whole 1950 Parkway session is fantastic, not just Rollin' and Tumblin'.

[AllenLowe]

yes, Leroy Foster is a significant figure - and that whole session has an eavesdropping quality, the sound of musicians before they got self conscious about what they were doing (hate to sound like Lomax here but in this case it applies) -

[John L]

In some sense, the Parkway session is the closest thing that we have to what the original Muddy Waters band (the Headhunters) sounded like. Unfortunately, Muddy himself couldn't do any of the lead singing on that session for contractual reasons. (He officially wasn't there.)

By the time Len Chess came around to allowing Muddy Waters to record with a full band three years later, Willie Dixon stepped in pretty quickly to "modernize" its sound into something a bit different.

Edited March 9, 2009 by John L

[Peter]

Bought the Blues World of Little Walter on CD. Somebody went nuts with Cedar. Allen is right. Just purchased on lp on Gemm website.

[AllenLowe]

hope it's the original LP - great sound. It's like witnessing the Creation -