BLUES WITH A FEELING—TYPOS AND ADDITIONS as of
PAGE PARAGRAPH/LINE
v P2 move parens
to include Paul Oliver with Myers & Cotton
v P1L8 Mark Kazanoff
NOT Kazinoff
v P3L7 Jansen NOT Janssen
v P3L9 Bert van O NOT Van O
v last line Yerxa
not Yerka
vii L4 from bottom “
x L5 dele “less than a hundred years old”
sub “barely a hundred years old”
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P3L 4 -- should be "
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L13 move close parens from “…tradition)” to
“-company) tradition”
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2PL7 dele “a fourth above the pitch” sub: “a fifth above the pitch”
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Leondry “Jacobs” NOT “Jacob”
17
5PL2 “Flour” not “Flower”
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P3L6 after “…returning to the south” ADD “, although Homesick James
Williamson
later claimed he died in 1973 in
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L5 “Little Anna Mae” NOT “Lee”
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P4L2 “Dew Drop Lounge”
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Last line “Chisholm” NOT “Chisolm”
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L3 from bottom (fb); lyric is “Way down south, ‘mongst the muskadine vines” NOT
“must be Muscadine bound”
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L3 Dew Drop Lounge NOT Inn
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P4L3 Dew Drop Lounge NOT Inn
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P4L7 “Johnny” NOT “Johnnie”
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P5L1 “Can’t Hold Out” not “Can’t Hold On”
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P5L6 lyric quote is “cat naps thru the day” NOT “catch
naps”
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P1L4 “Lawlars” NOT “Lawlers”
85
L1 dele “the first
ground at…”
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P5 L3 correct title is "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie"
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P5L1 Rickey’s NOT Rickys
98
P4L4 dele “tune“ sub “version”
99
L4 Dew Drop Lounge NOT Du Drop
99
P2L3 dele sentence beginning “Walter plays amplified…” sub: “Both cuts are
enlivened by his energetic playing.”
100
P2L2 “45 minutes on” NOT “off”
104
L2 between “first” and “recording” insert “of his own”
105
P5L8 “remembered” not “remember”
105
End P3, after “statement of lust” insert: “Many of the lyrics were inspired by
Amos
Milburn’s
1949 hit “Hold Me Baby.”
108
P2L2 change …”who’d won 59 of his 96 bouts by KO” TO “…who’d won 96 of
his 122 bouts, 58 by KO.”
122
P1L10 lyric is “cut you in the afternoon” NOT “pet you”
147
P4L3 Varetta Dillard NOT Vanetta
149
P2L4 “Doggett” NOT “Dogget”
152
P3L3 (fb) Rickey’s NOT Rickys
180
P5L2 Rickey’s NOT Rickys
183
P2L5 John Sellers NOT Sellars
191
P2L5 in sentence beginning “Walters tune “You Gonna
Be Sorry” dele rest, sub;
“is a virtual cover of Big Maceo’s
1945 Victor number, “I’m So Worried”
including the awkward vocal phrasing.”
191
P4L2 following “First tune off the blocks…” INSERT: “covered swamp-blues
piano man Tal
Miller’s recent single, ‘Baby’, it…”
192 P2L9 end sentence at “vocal”, DELE rest.
192
P4 last line flip side is “My Baby’s Sweeter” NOT “Baby”
207
P3L3 “Tympany” NOT Tympani”
215
lastPL2 dele: “owned by” sub; “where”, dele “
216
P3L7 “Lippmann” NOT “Lippman”
216
P3L10 “McGhee” NOT “McGee”
216
P3 Last line: “sixth” year of AFBF NOT “fifth”
219
lastP L1 Musselwhite NOT Musslewhite
220
P2L15 Mandel Hall NOT Mandell
228
P2L6 Mandel Hall not Mandell
243
L3 Sonny Boy Williamson II NOT #2
245
P5L1 Kazanoff not Kazinoff
246
P2L1 “ “ “
246
P4L1 “ “ “
247
P2L1 Mandel Hall NOT Mandell
249
P4L2 “bluesmen” NOT “bluemen”
256
P4L1 6th year
AFBF not 7th
256
P4L3 “Lippmann” NOT “Lippman”
260
P3 L10 “scared” NOT “sacred”
260
last P Den Haag NOT Hague
261
P2L9 Mandel Hall NOT Mandell
261
lastP L1 Montreux NOT Montreaux
263
P4L2 bass: Ernest Johnson, NOT Gatewood
264
P4L1 Kazanoff NOT Kazinoff
266 P1 last line bassist Johnson NOT Gatewood
280
P3L10 hyphenate “co-worker”
282
P3L6 Yerxa NOT Yerka
287
Muddy Waters “My Own Fault” NOT “My Fault”
300
“Leiser” NOT “Lieser”
301
“Gravenites” NOT “Gravenities”
305
“Heerma van Vos” NOT “Van
Voss” – also move to page 304 to alphabetize
307
“Adderley” NOT “Adderly”
309
add Dew Drop Inn 89
309
change Dew Drop Inn to “…Lounge, 47, 62, 64, 99”
309
“McKie” NOT Mckie
(Fitzhugh) – also “124” NOT “123”
309
“Fritz” NOT “Frizt”
309
“Guralnick” NOT “Guralnik”
310
“
310
Johnny Jones,
311
“Lippmann” NOT “Lippman”
PHOTO CAPTIONS
10
dele “At The Black Prince, Bexley
13
“Mandel Hall, U of C…” NOT Mandell Hall, and delete
“Sammy Lawhorn guitar”, sub “Junior Pettis,
bass”
LW BIRTH ADDENDA
At the time of publication in fall of 2002 of BLUES WITH A FEELING, THE LITTLE WALTER STORY, the 1930 census was not yet a matter of public record. Since then it has been made available, and now can be found at public libraries as a searchable database. Newly uncovered entries cast doubt on the reported 1930 birth year of Little Walter.
Our informants had told us that within a few days after his birth to Beatrice Leviege on May 1, 1930, his estranged father Adam Jacobs (who had married her sister Cecille a decade earlier, yet subsequently fathered two prior children with Beatrice) came to visit. Finding Beatrice quite ill from birth complications, Adam took Walter over to Alexandra LA, to be raised by his relatives, for the next eleven years or so.
However the new census data now shows that Adam Jacobs was in fact residing in Angola, LA State Penal Farm on April 9, 1930 charged with manslaughter. (He had also been incarcerated there in 1922, on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses.) Given that fact, it's extremely unlikely he could have been released in time to have picked up Walter a month later in Marksville, so the birth must have taken place earlier, if the story is true.
We located five documents that give birth dates; his Social Security application, draft registration, AFofM Union card, affidavit of birth (used to obtain a passport) and his death certificate. Almost all of these give the date of May 1st, but the years vary - 1923, 1925, 1930. The earliest date is pretty obviously false, as is 1925, since Walters older brother John was born, we were told, near Christmas, 1926. Which means that Walter could've been born either May 1st, 1928 or 1929. A further clue is that the 1930 census also lists Walter's boyhood chum, his uncle Carlton, as having been born in December 1926 - Carlton has been mentioned as being "about the same age" as Walter. So, it appears that either the 1928 or 29 date could apply - but it seems unlikely that we'll ever know for sure.
DISCOGRAPHY
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1947 OTHUM & LW sessions: sub Ora Nelle 711 for Chance 116
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1/59 L3 align “ELW” with right hand column
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LAY session: bass Ernest Johnson NOT Gatewood
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