I just heard a 1965 Shel Silverstein record called 'I'm So Good I Don't Have To Brag,' aparently available as a reissue on Edsel EDCD 657.
What makes this fine disk interesting here is that Little Walter is the harmonica player on four of the cuts. Walter's playing is neither featured nor buried in the tracks he plays on. The record was done 'live' at a club called 'Mother Blues' in the fair city of Chicago.
None of the tunes are anything like the music we know Walter for, and at least one would have to be called 'country'. The bluesiest tune has Walter playing responses to Shel's vocal phrases. He really plays exemplary harp all the way through the four songs he's on, though it's hard to imagine him doing otherwise. I doubt there was more than a few minutes of rehearsal time, if that, but serious LW fans will get a kick out of this anyway.
Not life-changing, but LW in a context I had never heard him in before.
The songs are great all the way through. Shel S was a wonderful songwriter. He wrote 5 or 6 big hits, and wound up becoming stupendously wealthy from his children's books toward the end of his life.
Oddly, there's another harp player on some of the other cuts. He's a guy named Robert Slawson. He plays very simply and doesn't get in the way.
He was the leader of a band called "The Chicago Loop," that had a hit in the middle 60's. I knew Bob, and played harp on at least one recording date with him in Nashville in the 70's and possibly one in NY.
