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LITTLE WALTER

Born Marion Walter Jacobs, 1 May 1930, Marksville, Louisiana
Died 15 February 1968, Chicago, Illinois

Little Walter was the king of the blues harmonica, a pioneer in the use of the electronically amplified harmonica in rhythm and blues recordings.

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His style so widely influenced other bluesmen that it has become an integral part of the mainstream of blues and rock music.

Born into a poor sharecropping family in rural Louisiana, Walter Jacobs began to play the harmonica at age eight.

He ran away from home when he was twelve. Even at that young age his harmonica skills became his major means of support, playing on the streets in New Orleans and later in Helena, Arkansas. There he met Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller), the local harmonica star, who took young Walter under his wing and taught him a few things about blues harmonica.

Walter also learned to play guitar during this period. He continued to travel and worked in St. Louis for a while before arriving in Ch