Little Walter, the blues singer and harmonica participant who was an inspiration to the British rhythm and blues artists of the 60s and a specific favourite of each Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, was beginning the brand new 12 months proper in 1954. After two years of unbroken success with a string of hits on the Checker label, Walter Jacobs and his band the Jukes entered Billboard’s Most Performed In Juke Containers record of R&B favourites on January 2 with “You’re So Fine.”
A usually upbeat quantity written by Jacobs himself, the tune was the follow-up to “Blues With A Feeling,“ the last of four big hits he amassed in 1953. It entered the ten-position chart at No.6 and went on to spend three weeks at No.2. Across the Atlantic, in the years to come, the sound of “You’re So Fine” and different Walter hits would have a big impact on the long run Stone.
“Little Walter Jacobs was one of the best singers of the blues, and a blues harp player par excellence,” wrote Keith in his autobiography Life. “I find it hard to listen to him without awe. His band the Jukes were so hip and sympathetic.”
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Richards, all the time beneficiant in his reward for Mick Jagger’s harmonica enjoying, noticed distinct similarities with the model of the American bluesman. “[Walter’s] singing was overshadowed by the phenomenal harp,” he wrote, “which was based on a lot of Louis Armstrong’s cornet licks. Little Walter would smile in his grave for the way Mick plays.” The Stones made their admiration for Walter all of the extra tangible by protecting no fewer than three of his compositions on their worldwide No.1 album Blue & Lonesome in late 2016.
There have been additionally variations of “You’re So Fine” by fellow bluesman John Hammond, on his 1967 album I Can Inform, and harmonica favorite James Cotton in 2001.
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