T-Bone Walker I Get So Weary + Singing The Blues (CD)

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T-Bone Walker: I Get So Weary + Singing The Blues (CD)

(2016/Soul Jam) 28 tracks.

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Interpret: T-Bone Walker
Album titlle: I Get So Weary + Singing The Blues (CD)
Genre Blues
Label SOUL JAM
Artikelart CD
EAN: 8436559460842
weight in Kg 0.1

Walker, T-Bone - I Get So Weary + Singing The Blues (CD) CD 1
01	Here In The Dark	T-Bone Walker
02	I Miss You Baby	T-Bone Walker
03	Life Is Too Short	T-Bone Walker
04	Welcome Blues	T-Bone Walker
05	I Get So Weary	T-Bone Walker
06	You Just Wanted To Use Me	T-Bone Walker
07	Through With Women	T-Bone Walker
08	Street Walking Woman	T-Bone Walker
09	Party Girl	T-Bone Walker
10	High Society	T-Bone Walker
11	Lollie Lou	T-Bone Walker
12	Got No Use For You	T-Bone Walker
13	Glamour Girl	T-Bone Walker
14	The Hustle	T-Bone Walker
15	Alimony Blues	T-Bone Walker
16	News For Me Baby	T-Bone Walker
17	Love Is Just A Gamble	T-Bone Walker
18	I`m Still In Love With You	T-Bone Walker
19	I`m About To Lose My Mind	T-Bone Walker
20	I Got The Blues Again	T-Bone Walker
21	Everytime	T-Bone Walker
22	Bye, Bye, Baby	T-Bone Walker
23	I`ll Understand	T-Bone Walker
24	Teen Age Baby	T-Bone Walker
25	No Reason	T-Bone Walker
26	Strollin` With Bones	T-Bone Walker
27	Wanderin` Heart	T-Bone Walker
28	Pony Tail	T-Bone Walker

T-Bone Walker Who's the father of the electric blues? Very simple: T-Bone Walker. Of... more

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"T-Bone Walker"

T-Bone Walker

Who's the father of the electric blues? Very simple: T-Bone Walker. Of course, a handful of blues-based guitarists had already experimented with amplifying their instruments before T-Bone's appearance, but he wrote the vocabulary that everyone who followed him eagerly adopted. In short, T-Bone was the source. The elegant Mean Old World, recorded in Hollywood on July 20, 1942 with pianist Freddie Slack, bassist Jud DeNaut and drummer Dave Coleman as accompanists, was the real starting point for Walker, even though he had made his first record years earlier.

Born on 28 May 1910 in Linden, Texas, Aaron Thibeaux (T-Bone was a corruption of his middle name) Walker learned the blues from his mother, who played the guitar, and a stepfather who plucked the bass in the Dallas String Band. The famous blind Lemon Jefferson was another major influence - as a teenager Walker led him through Dallas, where Jefferson performed as a street musician. Before concentrating on his guitar playing, Walker acquired extraordinary agility as a professional dancer.

Walker made his first recordings at the end of 1929, a 78 for Columbia under the name Oak Cliff T-Bone (Oak Cliff was the district of Dallas where he grew up). At that time, of course, Walker only played acoustic guitar, even when he performed as a duo with another future pioneer of the electric guitar, Charlie Christian. T-Bone moved out to Los Angeles in the mid-1930s, where he continued to dance and concentrate on his full baritone singing - he was only a singer on his next record appearance with bandleader Les Hite in 1940.

Initially inspired by Les Paul, T-Bone began to try out the newly launched electric guitar models at that time. He decided on a Gibson ES-250 and soon developed the unusual technique of holding his guitar flat in front of him like a plate while he pecked grandiose melody single-tone lines and wonderful, voluminous niche chords. Walker's brilliant innovations prepared the field for most of the following, influential guitarists of post-war blues, from Gatemouth Brown and B.B. King to Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland. His acrobatic shows also impressed his fans.

"Man, he did the splits while he was playing the guitar behind his head," Collins raved. "It was incredible!"

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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