Good Feelin'

Performer: T-Bone Walker
Engineer: Robin Hemingway
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: Personnel includes: T-Bone Walker (guitar, vocals). Personnel: T-Bone Walker (vocals, guitar, piano); Slim Pezin (guitar); Manu Dibango (saxophone, piano, organ); Pierre Holassian, Francis Cournet (saxophone); Unknown (trumpet); Bernard Estardy (piano, organ, percussion); Michel Sardaby (piano); Jeannot Karl (bass guitar); Lucien Dobat (drum); Jean-Louis Proust, Earl Lett (percussion); Jackie Miller, Jane Jarest, Archie Stewart (background vocals). Recorded in Paris during November 1968, Good Feelin' was the album that rekindled public interest in the life and music of Aaron "T-Bone" Walker throughout Europe and even in some portions of the United States of America. The album begins and closes with informal narration spoken by Walker while accompanying himself on the piano. The band behind him on the other ten tracks includes guitarist Slim Pezin, pianist Michel Sardaby and Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango blowing tenor alongside Pierre Holassian on alto, Francis Cournet on baritone, and a trumpeter whose identity remains a mystery. With T-Bone's electric guitar sizzling in its own juice and the horns signifying together over soulful organ grooves and freshly ground basslines, all of this music is rich and powerful. Each track is delicious; a funky instrumental strut entitled "Poontang" is the tastiest of all. ~ arwulf arwulf

Down Beat (p.65) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Walker's conversational vocals and guitar on 'I Wonder Why' capture the interwoven misery and ecstasy that made him such a superior bluesman.' Living Blues (p.65) - "'Woman You Must Be Crazy,' 'I Wonder Why' and 'Reconsider' are all slow blues in the familiar Walker style....A valuable addition to the available Walker catalog." No Depression (p.87) - "His keen tone and easy-rolling dexterity bespoke a hipster's cool even as he summoned deep emotion..." Record Collector (magazine) (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "'Long Lost Lover' benefits from fine saxophone interplay behind Walker's guitar and voice, and once again there seems to be a perfect balance maintained between the various elements."

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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