Hi all,

  I've been listening to "An Offer You Can't Refuse" CD, the Big Walter
side, after not hearing it for quite some time. After overlooking the
recording is a semi-tone higher than the actual key the song is played in
(except for the last tune "Walter's Boogie", which  stange as it seems
is I think a 1/4 tone higher) I fell for these cuts all over again. They are
really something  else. Maybe, IMHO, his best stuff. And I have 90% of
his work.

  First of all it's acoustic, which really let's you hear how GREAT a
player Horton is.

  Secondly, Robert Nighthawk is brilliant playing rythum guitar behind
Walter.

  And Thirderly, Walter's singing is in it's finest form. I feel he is
really an underrated blues singer.

  Each tune is a work of art. Up there with the best of any form of
music. Singing, harp, and guitar blend perfectly.

  There is a lifetime of lessons on this CD. His playing blows me away
each time I listen. How does he do it? The better player I get to be, the
more I understand just how masterful Big Walter Horton was over his
instrument.

Oh, I should mention Butterfields early career live show side is worth the
price of the CD alone.




                     
Happy everything,


                                      
chrisM