T-Bone Walker The Great Blues Vocals & Guitar (CD)

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(2016/Soul Jam) 28 tracks. The legendary T-Bone Walker is playing a fundamental source of... more

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T-Bone Walker: The Great Blues Vocals & Guitar (CD)

(2016/Soul Jam) 28 tracks.
The legendary T-Bone Walker is playing a fundamental source of modern urban style blues and singing. His single-string solos influenced musicians such as BB King and so important blues rockers like Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan. This CD contains one of the most difficult to find albums: The Great Blues Vocals & guitar. It was originally released by Capitol Records end of 1962, and was no longer available for long. The LP consists of a selection of lesser known early recordings, recorded 1946-1947. In addition to the original album, the digitally remastered CD contains 16 bonus tracks, including a number of T-Bone Walker most difficult-to-find pieces, included in the early 1950s. Some of these pieces have been created, accompanied by the excellent Dave Bartholomew and his band, as well as by such great musicians like Maxwell Davis, Marl Young and Billy Hadnott.

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Interpret: T-Bone Walker
Album titlle: The Great Blues Vocals & Guitar (CD)
Genre Blues
Label SOUL JAM
Artikelart CD
EAN: 8436559461054
weight in Kg 0.1

Walker, T-Bone - The Great Blues Vocals & Guitar (CD) CD 1
01	T-Bone Shuffle	T-Bone Walker
02	I`m Still In Love With You	T-Bone Walker
03	Call It Stormy Monday	T-Bone Walker
04	I Want A Little Girl	T-Bone Walker
05	Bobby Sox Blues	T-Bone Walker
06	West Side Baby	T-Bone Walker
07	Go Back To The One You Love	T-Bone Walker
08	I Wish You Were Mine	T-Bone Walker
09	Wise Man Blues	T-Bone Walker
10	You`re My Best Poker Hand	T-Bone Walker
11	Born To Be No Good	T-Bone Walker
12	T-Bone Jumps Again	T-Bone Walker
13	I Walked Away	T-Bone Walker
14	No Reason	T-Bone Walker
15	Look Me In The Eyes	T-Bone Walker
16	Too Lazy	T-Bone Walker
17	My Baby Left Me Blues	T-Bone Walker
18	Come Back To Me Baby	T-Bone Walker
19	She Is Going To Ruin Me (Aka Fast Woman)	T-Bone Walker
20	I Can`t Stand Being Away From You	T-Bone Walker
21	Long Distance Blues	T-Bone Walker
22	My Baby Is Now On My Mind	T-Bone Walker
23	Doin` Time	T-Bone Walker
24	I`ll Always Be In Love With You	T-Bone Walker
25	Hard Way	T-Bone Walker
26	Strugglin` Blues	T-Bone Walker
27	Alimony Blues	T-Bone Walker
28	News For My Baby	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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