The great Little Walter Jacobs is to be posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at the annual ceremony to be held Monday March 10th 2008 at New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel.
Little Walter will be inducted in the Sidemen Category for helping establish the modern blues harmonica on recordings with legends including BO DIDDLEY, Memphis Minnie, Jimmy Rogers, Otis Rush and Muddy Waters. He joins a select list of musicians inducted into the Hall of Fame's Sidemen Category that includes Chet Atkins, King Curtis and Johnnie Johnson.
Little Walter recorded numerous sessions for Chess/Checker Records between 1952 and his untimely death in 1968, including "Roller Coaster", "I Got To Go" and "Diddley Daddy" with BO DIDDLEY, plus the celebrated 1967 "Super Blues" album jam session on which Little Walter, Muddy Waters and BO DIDDLEY joined forces on such Chess classics as "Juke", "My Babe", "Sad Hours", "Long Distance Call", "I Just Want To Make Love To You", "Bo Diddley", "I'm A Man", "Who Do You Love", "You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)" and "You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover".
The Hall of Fame's Sidemen Category honors those musicians who have spent their careers out of the spotlight, performing as back-up musicians for major artists on recording sessions and in concert. Though they often play a key role in the creation of memorable music, the public rarely knows them by name. A separate committee, composed primarily of producers, selects the inductees in this category.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's Little Walter inductee webpage: http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/little-walter
LittleWalter.net - official Little Walter biography website: http://www.littlewalter.net/
