Big Walter Horton
Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey" Horton (April 6, 1917– December 8, 1981) was an American blues harmonica player. Born Walter Horton in Horn Lake, Mississippi, USA 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, and many have since disputed this claim.
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Top Albums
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Big Walter Horton with Carey Bell -
Harmonica Blues Essentials -
Can't Keep Lovin' You -
Fine Cuts -
Mouth Harp Maestro -
Harmonica Blues Kings
Top Songs
- Have A Good Time
- Christine
- Trouble In Mind
- Little Boy Blue
- That Ain't It
- Under the Sun
- Hard Hearted Woman
- Have Mercy
- Can't Hold Out Much Longer
- Lovin' My Baby
- Temptation Blues
- Easy
- Tell Me Baby
- Walters Boogie
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Need My Baby
- Back Home To Mama
- My Babe
- Walter's Boogie
- Cold Chills
- Blues Harp Shuffle
- Tin Pan Alley
- Good Moanin' Blues
- Can't Keep Lovin' You
- Sugar Mama
- La Cucuracha
- Hey Little Girl
- Evalena
- Walter's Swing
- Careless Love
- It's Not Easy
- Bocce Boogie
- Off The Wall
- Sweet Black Angel
- Gettin' Outta Town
- Little Bitty Girl
- Walter's Blues
- Honeydripper
- Rockin' My Boogie
- West Wind
- It's You Baby
- That's Wrong Little Mama
- Skip It
- Stockyard Blues
- Little Walter's Boogie
- Talk About Your Daddy
- Tell Me Why
- Walking By Myself
- Walter's Shuffle
- Baby Please Don't Go - Turn The Lamps Down Low
Similar Artists
- Walter Horton
- James Cotton
- Carey Bell
- William Clarke
- Snooky Pryor
- Robert Lockwood Jr.
- Sonny Terry
- George "Harmonica" Smith
- Kim Wilson
- Little Walter
- Jimmy Rogers
- Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
- Lazy Lester
- Charlie Musselwhite
- Sugar Blue
- Joe Hill Louis
- Sonny Boy Williamson
- Billy Boy Arnold
- Otis Spann
- Junior Wells
- Mark Hummel
- The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- James Cotton Blues Band
- Johnny Shines
- Sonny Boy Williamson II
- Gary Primich
- Jerry McCain
- Raful Neal
- Doctor Ross
- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- David "Honeyboy" Edwards
- Guitar Slim
- Eddie Boyd
- Jimmy Reed
- Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
- Magic Slim
- Earl Hooker
- Big Joe Williams
- Magic Sam
- Big Joe Duskin
- Slim Harpo
- Otis Rush
- Frank Frost
- Pinetop Perkins
- Little Charlie & The Nightcats
- Joe Louis Walker
- Lonnie Brooks
- Luther Allison
- Lonnie Johnson
- Koko Taylor
Big Walter Horton. Artist Bio
Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey" Horton (April 6, 1917– December 8, 1981) was an American blues harmonica player. Born Walter Horton in Horn Lake, Mississippi, USA 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, and many have since disputed this claim.
Read more about Big Walter Horton on Last.fm.
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Read more about Big Walter Horton on Last.fm.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.