Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:18:32 -0700 From: tom ball Subject: Re: Big Walter's Off The Wall 2
Allen wrote:
>I had heard that Big Walter was known as Little Walter prior to that nick >name being given to Marion Jacobs. Maybe someone out there has some more >info on that?
_______________ Horton certainly claimed that to be the case. He is quoted as saying: "See, my name was originally Little Walter. But after he cut the tune 'Juke,' there couldn't be no two Little Walters, so I gave him my name and took Big Walter for myself."
Fact, or fanciful tale-telling? With either Walter, who knows? All that's certain is that they were both genuises in the own right(s)...
