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

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yikes! Who's your optometrist Taco?
RD

>>> <tacopescado@xxxxxxxxxxx> 5/11/2010 10:01 >>>
It says 'Checker' on the top right.

Taco in Baja


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.
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> RD
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>>>> 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
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> 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
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> --- On Wed, 11/3/10, Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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
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>>>> <tacopescado@xxxxxxxxxxx> 4/11/2010 2:06 >>>
> It's not a joke. It was labeled Little Walter's rarest album.
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> On Nov 2, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Bill Rossoll wrote:
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>> 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.
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/55433571@N02/?saved=1 
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