Re: "Juke" was faked.

[the Leones <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

>> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:38:45 -0500
>> From: "D. Garrison"
>> Subject: Re: "Juke" was faked.
>>
>> - ----- Original Message -----
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>> >
>> > In fact, I've heard that Little Walter couldn't even play harmonica.
>> >
>> > I've heard that LW would fake playing harp on stage, and that the actual
>> > music was played by an accordian player standing behind a curtain.
>> >
>> > Sometimes the truth isn't pretty.
>> >
>> > Jimbeau
>> >
>>
>> I also heard that he really lived in New Mexico and he was actually white!!
>>
>> big dog
>>
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>
>And you know that transcription of Juke in my book Masters of the Blues
>Harp? I made it up.
>
>Glenn Weiser
>http://


  You're all mistaken. Little Walter was actually "Little Vatszek" (which
is Walter in Polish). He sometimes went by "Little Wally" and had a polka
band out of Detroit (when blues were slow). While he may have been seen
with a harmonica in his mouth, he really played accordeon. The reason he
was tan was because his mom was Phillipino.