1929-1946

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Performer: T-Bone Walker
Distributor: City Hall

Notes: Personnel includes: T-Bone Walker (vocals, guitar); Douglas Ferrell, Marl Young, Crow Kahn (piano); Les Hite (alto saxophone); Melvin Moore (trumpet); Britt Woodman (trombone); Oscar Bradley (drums). This is part of Classics' Blues & Rhythm series. Texas guitarist T-Bone Walker's best work was done for Imperial Records in the early '50s, but as this disc of his earliest sides shows, the evolution of his elegant guitar style and urbane vocal skills is a fascinating one. Opening with his first recorded pieces, "Wichita Falls Blues" and "Trinity River Blues," released in 1929 on Columbia, and moving chronologically through his recordings for Capitol Records and his yearlong stay with Black & White Records in 1946, this collection show the jazzy, jump blues roots of a guitar legend. Novice listeners should check out his Imperial years first, but this anthology makes a nice second purchase. ~ Steve Leggett

Somewhere between the blues-jazz of Lonnie Johnson and Charlie Christian and the electrified blues of B.B. King, Chuck Berry, and Buddy Guy is Aaron "T-Bone" Walker. During the 1930s through the 1950s, the height of his recording and performing career, T-Bone fused influences of the past and reshaped them into modern guitar blues. A master showman as well as a brilliant guitarist and singer, Walker is a performer whose influence cannot be underestimated: nearly every blues guitarist of the past half-century has paid props to the man. His best-known song, "Stormy Monday," is a staple of every bar band's repertoire.

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