Re: [Harp-L] Re: Anybody seen, heard or have this album?



Taco is correct...it certainly does say checker on the top right.


In a message dated 11/4/10 5:37:06 PM, rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:


> Yikes! Who's your optometrist Taco?
> RD
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> >>> <tacopescado@xxxxxxxxxxx> 5/11/2010 10:01 >>>
> It says 'Checker' on the top right.
> 
> Taco in Baja
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> On Nov 4, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Rick Dempster wrote:
> 
> > Maybe it wasn't on Chess/Checker. Maybe on Lil Wally's label. Just 
> > now I copied and enlarged the pic of that album cover; got too 
> > blurry, but I don't recognise the logo. Anyone else?
> > Love to hear the Toots stuff on Chess anyhow.
> >
> > RD
> >
> >
> >>>> Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> 4/11/2010 17:44 >>>
> > Complete Chess/Checker discographies have been published. it would 
> > be possible to verify.
> > By the way, one thign you *will* find in such a discography is a 
> > few sides featuring Toots Thielemans with Willie Dixon and 
> > Lafayette Leake, sometime in the late 1950s. Never released to my 
> > knowledge, but documented in a Downbeat Magazine photo shoot.
> > Winslow
> >
> > Winslow Yerxa
> > Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
> > Harmonica instructor, The Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance
> > Resident expert, bluesharmonica.com
> > Columnist, harmonicasessions.com
> >
> > --- On Wed, 11/3/10, Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Anybody seen, heard or have this album?
> > To: tacopescado@xxxxxxxxxxx, "harp-l L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 11:18 PM
> >
> > Well, I've never heard this pairing mentioned. There's nothing 
> > about it, that I recall, in the book on Walter. However, Lil' Wally 
> > seems real enough:
> >  http://www.letspolka.com/2006/08/polka-king-lil-wally-passes-away/
> > Not impossible, but highly unlikely....seen some funny ones over 
> > the years....George Jones and Gene Pitney.....yes....weird 
> > enough....tell me more!
> > RD
> >
> >
> >>>> <tacopescado@xxxxxxxxxxx> 4/11/2010 2:06 >>>
> > It's not a joke. It was labeled Little Walter's rarest album.
> >
> > On Nov 2, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Bill Rossoll wrote:
> >
> >> I don't know if this is meant as a joke or not. However, Little
> >> Walter was, by no means, strictly a bluesman. He was known to play
> >> polkas, waltzes, country and anything else that would pay the rent
> >> and put food on the table.
> >
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/55433571@N02/?saved=1
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