Little Walter-Herald 404 Blues 78. Muddy Waters.1953
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Description
Herald 78 rpm record #404. Condition: VG. Very good. Plays without any loud crackles but has some light hiss. Some light needle wear visible. Not bad though. A very respectable copy.
Rollin Blues (same as Rollin and Tumblin part 2--Parkway 78 #501). b/w Boll Weevil. (previously unissued take 3 of Boll Weevil from the same Parkway session in 1950)
In short this Herald 78 is actually side 2 of the 1950-51 Parkway 78 plus a previously unreleased take of Boll Weevil. This Herald 78 came out around 1953 after Parkway had folded.
A must for Chicago postwar blues and Muddy Waters/Little Walter and Baby Face Leroy fans. If this were the Parkway 501 78rpm record, it would be the Holy Grail of Chicago postwar blues 78s. This Herald 78 is a close cousin though. Features: (Baby Face)Leroy Foster (voc, d); Little Walter (hca); Muddy Waters (eg); Jimmy Rogers (eg).
More info on this record can be found at : http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/parkway.html
Quoted from that site:
East Coast record man Fred Mendelsohn, who was at Regal in 1950, picked up the first Parkway session from Passis. According to Mike Rowe in his history of Chicago blues, this was to settle a debt. By 1953, Regal was history and Mendelsohn had resurfaced at Herald Records; meanwhile Little Walter had become a huge star in the R&B world. So Mendelsohn put out four of the Parkway sides under the name Little Walter. Two of these were the Baby Face Leroy Trio’s "Boll Weevil" (H-512) and "Rollin’ and Tumblin’ Pt. 2" (H-514), the latter renamed "Rollin’ Blues." Virtually all of the surviving Heralds are 78s, but according to Barry Soltz, both of the Heralds that bore Little Walter's name also came out on 45s. "Rollin’ and Tumblin" was based on an old blues theme, first recorded in 1929 by Hambone Willie Newbern as "Roll and Tumble Blues" for OKeh..........The song exhibits a powerful drive built on Muddy Waters slide guitar playing........ following from: Tony Glover, Scott Dirks, and Ward Gaines’ Little Walter biography: The tone is set by an insistent instrumental lead-in, guitar and harp together playing the sinuous, hypnotically droning riff. Foster sings with passion as Muddy moans wordlessly behind Foster’s vocals, and Foster even quotes the "Baby’s going to jump and shout, when the train came wheeling up, and I come walking out" verse that Muddy used in his hit "I Can’t Be Satisfied" a year and a half earlier. Walter plays with fire, sometimes echoing, sometimes answering Muddy’s biting lead lines. The take is so hot that they immediately continued on with another take, this one with wordless vocals, Foster and Waters moaning in unison lines, Foster taking the high end. Walter carries the lead melody on a few choruses, his harp tone fat and funky.
USA buyer pays $8.00 (insured priority mail) $4.00 (4th class-media mail-insured).
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