⬇️WALTER 'Shakey' HORTON⬇️
(alias Big Walter Horton)
DISCOGRAPHY 1951-2023 (47CD)
Walter Horton, better known as Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey"
Horton, (April 6, 1917 – December 8, 1981) was an American blues
harmonica player. A quiet, unassuming and essentially shy man, Horton is
remembered as one of the premier harmonica players in the history of
blues. Willie Dixon once called Horton "the best harmonica player I ever
heard."
(alias Big Walter Horton)
DISCOGRAPHY 1951-2023 (47CD)
BIOGRAPHY
Born Walter Horton in Horn Lake, Mississippi, he was playing a
harmonica by the time he was five years old.
In his early teens, he lived in Memphis, Tennessee and claimed that his earliest recordings were done there in the late 1920s with the Memphis Jug Band, although there is no documentation of it, and some blues researchers have stated that this story was most likely fabricated by Horton. (He also claimed to have taught some harmonica to Little Walter and the original Sonny Boy Williamson, although these claims are unsubstantiated, and in the case of the older Williamson, somewhat suspect).
In his early teens, he lived in Memphis, Tennessee and claimed that his earliest recordings were done there in the late 1920s with the Memphis Jug Band, although there is no documentation of it, and some blues researchers have stated that this story was most likely fabricated by Horton. (He also claimed to have taught some harmonica to Little Walter and the original Sonny Boy Williamson, although these claims are unsubstantiated, and in the case of the older Williamson, somewhat suspect).
His final recordings were made in 1980. Horton died from heart failure in Chicago in 1981 at the age of 64, and
was buried in Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois. He was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1982....
(Wikipedia)
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