Willie Foster

Although Willie Foster was a noted bluesman and accomplished harmonica participant in his very own correct, he’s best-known for using alongside various other blues greats, specifically Muddy Waters. Foster uncovered the blues and bought his initial harmonica as a guy in the ’20s, so that as a teenager fulfilled Waters, who he’d play with on / off through the entire years. But Foster didn’t receive his initial paying out musical gig before ’50s, when he started playing at a St. Louis nightclub. It had been during that 10 years that Waters and Foster performed a concert jointly at NY City’s famous Carnegie Hall. Foster held playing through the entire years (despite getting dealt such life-altering blows as shedding a calf and being regarded legally blind). Your day after he performed at an exclusive party in Jackson, TN, on, may 19, 2001, Foster passed on from an obvious heart attack.