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​(Mr. R&B) 17 tracks Anthology from his earliest recordings 1929 until 1953. A...more

T-Bone Walker: The Inventor Of The Electric Guitar Blues (CD)

​(Mr. R&B) 17 tracks

Anthology from his earliest recordings 1929 until 1953. A retrospective. The booklet contains session details. Rare Swedish CD!

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  • Interpret: T-Bone Walker

  • Album titlle: The Inventor Of The Electric Guitar Blues (CD)

  • Genre R&B, Soul

  • Label MR. R&B

  • Artikelart CD

  • Preiscode Y05
  • EAN: 5013727030408

  • weight in Kg 0.107
Walker, T-Bone - The Inventor Of The Electric Guitar Blues (CD) CD 1
01Wichita Falls BluesT-Bone Walker
02Sail On BoogieT-Bone Walker
03I'm Still In Love With YouT-Bone Walker
04T Bone BoogieT-Bone Walker
05EveningT-Bone Walker
06You Don't Love Me BluesT-Bone Walker
07Mean Old World BluesT-Bone Walker
08Description BluesT-Bone Walker
09That's Better For MeT-Bone Walker
10Hard Pain BluesT-Bone Walker
11The Hustle Is OnT-Bone Walker
12Baby BrokeMy HeartT-Bone Walker
13I Walked AwayT-Bone Walker
14No ReasonT-Bone Walker
15My Baby Is Now On My MindT-Bone Walker
16Pony TailT-Bone Walker
17When The Sun Goes DownT-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker Who's the father of the electric blues? Very simple: T-Bone Walker. Of... more
"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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Tracklist
Walker, T-Bone - The Inventor Of The Electric Guitar Blues (CD) CD 1
01 Wichita Falls Blues
02 Sail On Boogie
03 I'm Still In Love With You
04 T Bone Boogie
05 Evening
06 You Don't Love Me Blues
07 Mean Old World Blues
08 Description Blues
09 That's Better For Me
10 Hard Pain Blues
11 The Hustle Is On
12 Baby BrokeMy Heart
13 I Walked Away
14 No Reason
15 My Baby Is Now On My Mind
16 Pony Tail
17 When The Sun Goes Down