Back on the Scene: Texas, 1966 [Castle]

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Performer: T-Bone Walker
Artist: T-Bone Walker, Jr.
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: Personnel includes: T-Bone Walker (vocals, guitar, piano); T-Bone Walker Jr. (vocal, guitar); Joey Long (guitar); Arnett Cobb (tenor saxophone); Jimmy Ford (trumpet); Willard "Piano Slim" (piano); The Untouchables. Recorded Los Angeles, California in 1962 and in Houston, Texas in 1966. Originally issued in 1966 as HOME COOKING on Jet Stream Records. Personnel includes: T-Bone Walker (vocals, guitar); Harmonica Fats (harmonica); Willard "Piano Slim" Burton (piano, organ); Jimmy Jones (bass). Recorded in Houston and Pasadena, Texas in 1966. Includes liner notes by Harry Shapiro. Guitarist T-Bone Walker is one of the links--if not THE link--between the suave, intricate jazz styles of Charlie Christian and Lonnie Johnson and the crackling electricity of Buddy Guy and Jimi Hendrix. Not only is he massively influential as a guitarist, but he was a dynamic showman (played that guitar behind his head way before Hendrix did) and his original songs have become standards ("Stormy Monday Blues"). Originally entitled HOME COOKING, this 1966 album from blues wizard T-Bone Walker, where he's accompanied by only three other musicians (with no drummer), proves the blues can be mellow without losing the sting or the zing.

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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