Good Rockin' Charles
Good Rockin' Charles
Top Songs
| 1 | Shake The Boogie | ||
| 2 | Don't Start Me Talkin' | ||
| 3 | La Cucaracha | ||
| 4 | Shake Your Boogie | ||
| 5 | Don't Start Me to Talkin' |
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Biography
Harpist Good Rockin' Charles is best-known for a solo he didn't play. Suffering from a bad case of studio fright, Charles chickened out of playing on guitarist Jimmy Rogers' 1956 Chess waxing of "Walking by Myself" -- leaving the door wide-open for Big Walter Horton to blow a galvanic solo that rates among his very best. Charles' domestic solo discography consists of one nice album for Steve Wisner's short-lived Mr. Blues logo in 1975.
Inspired by both Sonny Boys and Little Walter, Charles Edwards began playing harp shortly after hitting Chicago in 1949. He played with a plet...