Walter Shakey Horton

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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.[1] Willie Dixon once called Horton "the best harmonica player I ever heard." 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). As with many of his peers, he spent much of his career existing on a meager income and living with constant discrimination in a segregated United States of America. In the 1930s he played with various blues performers across the Mississippi delta region. It is generally accepted that his first recordings were made in Memphis backing guitarist Little Buddy Doyle on Doyle's recordings for the Okeh and Vocalion labels in 1939. These recordings were in the acoustic duo format popularized by Sleepy John Estes with his harmonicist Hammie

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Blues Harp Heroes

Walter Shakey Horton With Hot Cottage

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Spivey's Blues Parade

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Black R&B

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They Call Me Big Walter (with Hot Cottage)

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Hipocondria Mods: Black R&B

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Chicago Blues, Vol. 1 (HQ Remastered Version)

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Hipocondria Mods 11 - Black R&B

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Willie Dixon - Boss Of The Chicago Blues

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They Call Me Big Walter

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

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