The Best (CD)
If there's a blues harmonica player alive today who doesn't have this landmark album in their collection, they're either lying or had their copy stolen by another harmonica player. This 12-song collection is the one that every harmonica player across the board cut their teeth on. All the hits are here: "My Babe," "Blues With a Feeling," "You Better Watch Yourself," "Off the Wall," "Mean Old World," and the instrumental that catapulted him from the sideman chair in Muddy Waters' band to the top of the R&B charts in 1952, "Juke." Walter's influence to this very day is so pervasive over the landscape of the instrument that this collection of singles is truly one of the all-time greatest blues harmonica albums, one of the all-time greatest Chicago blues albums, and one of the first ten albums you should purchase if you're building your blues collection from the ground floor up. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide
| Tracklisting | |
| Disk | 1 | |
| 1 | My Babe |
| 2 | Sad Hours |
| 3 | You're So Fine |
| 4 | Last Night |
| 5 | Blues With a Feeling |
| 6 | Can't Hold Out Much Longer |
| 7 | Juke |
| 8 | Mean Old World |
| 9 | Off the Wall |
| 10 | You Better Watch Yourself |
| 11 | Blue Lights |
| 12 | Tell Me Mamma |