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Walter Horton

Horn Lake, United States

Walter Horton is credited on 667 releases across 183 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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667

Credits

183

Albums

8

Decades active

154

In collections

Biography

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Born April 06, 1921 in Horn Lake, Mississippi, USA (other sources say 1917 and 1918).
Died December 8, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
American blues harmonica player usually billed as Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey" Horton,
He learnt to play in the thirties in Memphis, started recording in 1939. In 1953 he also played with Muddy Waters.

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Credited work

667 releases · 183 albums · active 1956–2023

  • Performance · 823
  • Other credits · 822

Studios: Ter Mar Studios · CBS Studios, London · Sound Studios, Chicago · Wessex Sound Studios

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