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No one’s played blues harmonica more delicately, more lyrically.

“Shakey,” “Mumbles”—no one’s had weirder nicknames.

No one else in my years at Alligator Records (back in the 1970s), where I worked with a lot of musicians who drank more in a day than most folks do in a month, managed to do this: trip over the drum set, right in the middle of a performance (at Notre Dame), and fall over onstage.

Big Walter Horton, live, Copenhagen, 1970