If there's a blues harmonica player alive today who doesn't have this landmark album in their collection, they're either lying or had their copy stolen by another harmonica player. This 12-song collection is the one that every harmonica player across the board cut their teeth on. All the hits are here: "My Babe," "Blues With a Feeling," "You Better Watch Yourself," "Off the Wall," "Mean Old World," and the instrumental that catapulted him from the sideman chair in Muddy Waters' band to the top of the R&B charts in 1952, "Juke." Walter's influence to this very day is so pervasive over the landscape of the instrument that this collection of singles is truly one of the all-time greatest blues harmonica albums, one of the all-time greatest Chicago blues albums, and one of the first ten albums you should purchase if you're building your blues collection from the ground floor up.

(by Cub Koda , All Music Guide)

While the other players in Muddy Waters' band were electrifying the blues, Little Walter was doing something unprecedented. Holding his harmonica and a microphone in his cupped hands, Walter attacked the instrument with the authority of the bop sax players who'd influenced him, bringing a dynamic new sound to Chicago blues. In 1952, after Walter's own "Juke" topped the R&B charts, he started his own group. Walter was a disciplined musician, but he had less control of his personal life. "He was hellacious when he drank," said Lazy Lester Johnson. Walter died at thirty-seven after suffering head injuries in a street fight.
(Rolling Stone)

Total album sales: Under 500,000