Blues Masters: The Very Best of T-Bone Walker

T-Bone Walker - Blues Masters: The Very Best of T-Bone Walker

Blues Masters: The Very Best of T-Bone Walker
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Artist: T-Bone Walker
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-06-20
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Bobby Sox Blues
  2. Mean Old World Blues
  3. I'm Still In Love With You
  4. Evenin'
  5. Hypin' Women Blues
  6. Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)
  7. West Side Baby
  8. Strollin' With Bones
  9. The Hustle Is On
  10. You Don't Understand
  11. Tell Me What's The Reason
  12. Papa Ain't Salty
  13. Play On Little Girl
  14. T-Bone Blues
  15. How Long Blues
  16. T-Bone Shuffle

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Free Music Review: Stellar introduction to the art of T-Bone Walker
Hit: 5 Stars

Nice introduction to the work of T-Bone Walker! He was one of the best of the bluesmen. The liner notes from the CD provide nice background to Walker's work. Many heard him live when he was well past his prime, not knowing the full skills of his art.

Even two songs illustrate. . . .

"Bobby Sox Blues" was an early popular song of Walker's. The backing group supports his singing well. He displays a smooth singing voice. The song itself spoofed the teenagers' giddiness over Sinatra and Eckstine.

And then there is his iconic ""Stormy Monday. . . ." This is one of the great blues tunes. Walker's voice serves this song well. The backing instruments have a clean sound and back the singer very nicely. The liner notes say that "If T-Bone had done nothing more in his career than write and record this one tune, his esteemed place in the history of American music would be guaranteed." His singing emphasizes classic lines such as:

"They call it Stormy Monday,
But Tuesday is just as bad.
Wednesday's worse,
And Thursday's also sad."

All in all, then, this is a fine introduction to the work of T-Bone Walker.

Blues Masters: The Very Best of T-Bone Walker Poster

In his prime, circa 1945-1965, Texas-born T-Bone Walker was the Elvis Presley and the Jimi Hendrix of electric blues. Aaron Thibeault Walker rose to fame out of Dallas, Houston, L.A., and Chicago, and became a national star in the pre-TV era. T-Bone was an early and highly innovative electric guitarist (famed for single-note solos and horn-like chording), an excellent songwriter, a powerful singer, a prolific record-maker, and an acrobatic showman (he'd do splits while playing his big Gibson hollow-body behind his head, or pick the strings with his teeth--sound similar to a '60s-era rock guitar god we all know and love?). After his wild sets, the stages would be littered with jewelry, cash, and panties. No wonder cats like B.B. King, Mike Bloomfield, Albert King, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Robert Cray worshipped at T-Bone's altar, even after Walker's death in 1975. Now every day's a "stormy Monday" with the most complete single-disc "best of" devoted to the man. Breaking loose with 16 tracks released by the Black & White/Capitol, Comet, Imperial, and Atlantic labels between 1945-1960 and featuring Billy Vera-penned liner notes, The Very Best of T-Bone Walker serves as the virtual blueprint of modern electric blues guitar.

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