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| Late Chicago harpist recorded with Willie Dixon on sessions for Chess, Cobra, and other labels, as well as touring with Dixon's band. On the 45 "Hard Hearted Woman" / "Back Home to Mama," Horton was first billed as "Big Walter," an attempt to challenge Chess' Little Walter Jacobs, another harp legend. Horton, who had been known as "Little Water" in Memphis asserted: "I am the original... Little Walter. But after this boy started out, I just gave it up, you know. It didn't make no sense for two of us to be him..." According to Horton, the two had met in Memphis in 1942: "He was just learnin', I was teachin' him how. After I got him started off pretty good, he left Memphis and came here and started with Muddy Waters..."
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