"It's difficult to overestimate Louis Myers' importance to the development of Chicago blues guitar of the post World War II era. In simple terms, he's one of the key architects of the idiom. Louis, along with his fellow Aces [Dave Myers, Fred Below], just about invented shuffles and other uptempo blues at a time when other trendsetters like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were sticking to slower, more basic patterns."