Blue Baby / Just Keep Loving Her

BLUE BABY (W. Jacobs)
J Place ~ Vocal, Harmonica • Joe Micarelli ~ Piano
JUST KEEP LOVING HER (W. Jacobs)
J Place ~ Vocal, Harmonica • Kit Otto ~ Guitar
From J’s JUKE ~ A Tribute
to the Legendary LITTLE WALTER
J Place ©2005
Released on May 1, 2020 - jplace.bandcam...
Recorded at Chris Rival Studio on Walter's 75th birthday, May 1, 2005
In honor of Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 - February 15, 1968)
"We Played For The Kitty”
Little Walter Jacobs and Baby Face Leroy Foster arrived in Chicago together in 1945 with piano man, Johnnie Jones.
Sunnyland Slim served as elder statesman connection for many of the blues men coming up from the south, including Muddy Waters.
He opened doors for early recording opportunities. He had also helped out a teenaged Walter with a place to stay (instead of sleeping on pool tables) back in Missouri….
In 1948, Sunnyland contracted a session for Irving Taman's TEMPO-TONE records, one of many short-lived blues labels around Chicago, run by an owner of a tavern near The Purple Cat, where Little Walter had played his first official gig in 1946.
This recording session is the first time Muddy and Walter are on a recording together ! Walter is 18 years old.
BLUE BABY is one of the earliest examples of LITTLE WALTER fronting a song, singing and playing harmonica !
(Accompaniment of SUNNYLAND SLIM/Piano, MUDDY WATERS or FLOYD JONES/Guitar, BABY FACE LEROY/Drums
Jimmy Rogers discovered Little Walter early on, playing on Maxwell Street, hustling with Honey Boy Edward and others.
Walter had even been doing 'battle royals' versus the legendary Sonny Boy I (John Lee Williamson) on the West Side of “Jewtown”.
Collecting money in a blown glass jar in the shape of a cat - The Kitty.
“The ones that blowed the loudest and had the best music, that’s who got the crowd and that’s who got the biggest Kitty.”
(pg. 43, The Jimmy Rogers Story / Blues All Day Long by Wayne Everett Goins)
Jimmy played together with Walter as a duo and within a year he introduced Walter to Muddy Waters, and the trio, known as the Head Hunters, grew as a formidable force in the burgeoning Chicago Blues scene.
In January of 1950, Jimmy Rogers joined a host of other musicians for a slew of recording sessions for Parkway Records, which produced four Little Walter Jacobs numbers where he sings the lead vocal.
Three of the numbers, he accompanies himself on guitar.
But the fourth, Just Keep Loving Her, features the strong harmonica work of Walter’s remake of his jumping’ boogie blues lament.
JUST KEEP LOVING HER was originally recorded for the ORA NELLE label in 1947
(Little Walter J./voc,hca, Othum Brown/gtr.)
JUST KEEP LOVIN' HER was recorded for PARKWAY records in 1950
Little Walter Trio
(LW/voc,hca, Waters-g, Rogers (?)-g, Foster-d)
Long Live The Magical Music of The Lone Wolf ~ Little Walter
Check Out BLUES WITH A FEELING, written by Tony Glover, Scott Dirks, & Ward Gaines 2002
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