The Official Website of Big Walter the Thunderbird an early rock and roll and blues artist.

The Official website of Big Walter

The Thunderbird!

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I want to give the public a way to buy legitimate Big Walter Cd's - authorized by me.

I now have four CD's available... that's 46 tracks of my songs.

On August 8th, '04 at my 90th birthday party, I released my Cd's

Tell Me and Pain in My Heart. I thank those who have bought them.

Click CD image to see song list

At my 91st birthday party (photos coming soon), I released my Cd's

Cool Breeze and Six Weeks Of Misery. I hope you will enjoy them.

Click CD image to see song list

All four of my Cd's are available for purchase online at

CDBaby.com, Amazon.com, and TowerRecords.com. Click one of the links:

I think CD Baby gives you the best price, but buy from whichever store you feel

comfortable with.

I have a suitcase full of reel-to-reel tapes of my songs and I plan to release more

of my material, some never before heard by the public.

Please keep checking back to find more legitimate Big Walter Cd's.

I thank you.

Big Walter

Houston, Texas

For 5 decades, Big Walter, known as The Thunderbird, has been making records. Born in Gonzales,

Texas in 1914, Walter Price started his music career in 1954. He has recorded for T-N-T Records,

Peacock, Goldband and other record labels with many hits along the way. Shirley Jean, Git to Gettin’,

If The Blues Was Money, Pack Fair and Square, are just a few.

Big Walter is a true living legend of the music industry. His boogie-woogie piano style helped set and

define the tempo of early Rock and Roll; Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis were

Big Walter’s early contemporaries.

Over these past 50 years of writing, recording and performing, Big Walter has worked with numerous

blues legends. Among them are: Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, B.B. King, Jimmy Reed,

Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Gatemouth Brown, Fats Domino, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Juke Boy Bonner,

Koko Taylor, Buddy Ace, T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins, Johnny Clyde Copeland, Big Mama Thornton,

Texas blues stalwart Jerry Lightfoot, Joe Hughes, Peppermint Harris, jazz great Arnett Cobb,

Pete Mayes, the dynamic Houston based vocalist Trudy Lynn, Texas Johnny Brown, Calvin Owens,

Grady Gaines and Bobby Bland.

In mid-career, his insistence of being treated fairly angered record companies, booking agencies and

venue operators. He found himself being passed over while other people profited from his music. Years

of legal actions stopped many, but the lawyers were the only winners. In fact, until his own recent releases,

almost all of the Big Walter recordings on the market today are not properly licensed.

Still robust at the age of 90, Big Walter is again releasing his music to the world. At his 90th birthday party

at the Continental Club in Houston, Texas, he played and sang many of the songs on his new CD releases

"Tell Me" and "Pain In My Heart” to an appreciative audience.

Please go to Bio for a more complete biography or read

the Living Blues Magazine interview by Roger Wood.

Tell Me
1. Tell Me
2. What Fool Is That Knockin'
3. Big Bad Woman
4. I Treated You Like A Fool
5. If The Blues Was Money
6. Love Me One More Time
7. Nobody Loves Me
8. Pack Fair And Square
9. To The Married Men
10. Walkin' To Conroe
11. Walter's Boogie

Note: Big Bad Woman and If The Blues Was Money are on both Tell Me and Pain In My Heart.

They are different recordings and worth having a second time.

Pain In My Heart

1. Pain In My Heart
2. Summer Is Gone Winter Is Almost Here
3. Big Bad Woman
4. My Ol' Lady Says I'm Cheatin' On Her
5. Shirley Jean
6. So Tired
7. If The Blues Was Money
8. Twelve Midnight
9. Ma Ha
10. Copyright Your Man
11. If You Seen It Why Did You Step In It

Cool Breeze

1. Answer To Stager Lee
2. Calling Margie
3. Cool Breeze
4. Get To Gettin'
5. A Long Way To Go
6. Hello Maria
7. Oh No Blues
8. Crazy Dreams
9. I Thought I Heard My Baby Crying
10. I Want To Be Your Chauffeur
11. Feeling A Little Worried
12. Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn

Six Weeks Of Misery

1. Louise
2. Oh Ramona
3. San Antonio Here I Come
4. Six Weeks Of Misery
5. Preacher Who Turn To A Drunk
6. Never Too Old
7. Santa Claus Is Right Outside
8. The Old Clock On The Motel
9. Sheets And Pillows Torn To Pieces
10. Life's Highway
11. Lookin' For A Home
12. Junior Jumped In