T-Bone Walker

T-Bone Blues (6785443)

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T-Bone Blues

T-Bone Walker

Vinyl Lovers

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LPS 148584

6785443

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T-Bone Blues

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LP 14,98 €

INCLUDES 2 BONUS TRACKS

This quintessential LP edition includes one of Walker’s finest albums, the sensational T-Bone Blues, which was originally released by Atlantic Records in 1960, and has been long unavailable on vinyl. For these recordings Atlantic took some chances with Walker, dispatching him to Chicago for a 1955 date with Junior Wells and Jimmy Rogers which resulted in the great “Play on Little Girl.” Even better were the 1956-1957 L.A. dates that produced the scalding instrumental “Two Bones and a Pick” (it finds T-Bone dueling it out with nephew R.S. Rankin and jazzman Barney Kessel). But if there’s one T-Bone Walker solo you have to know, it’s his 12-bar chorus from “Stormy Monday Blues” (also know as “Call It Stormy Monday”). The song was a cornerstone for B.B. King, and the great blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon called it “a national treasure.”

In addition to the original album, this Vinyl Lovers collector’s edition also includes 2 bonus tracks from the same period: “Teen Age Baby” and “Bye, Bye Baby.” All of these songs give a solid and revealing portrait of Walker’s versatility as well as his rightful place in the blues pantheon.

PERSONNEL:

T-BONE WALKER vocals and lead guitar, plus:

SIDE 1, track 1 / SIDE 2, tracks 3 & 5:
R.S. Rankin, Barney Kessel (guitar), Joe Comfort (bass), Ray Johnson (piano),
Earl Palmer (drums), and Plas Johnson (tenor saxophone).
Recorded in LosAngeles, December27,1957.

SIDE 1, tracks 2, 4 & 5 / SIDE 2, tracks 1 & 2
Billy Hadnott (bass), Lloyd Glenn (piano), and Oscar Bradley (drums).
Recorded in Los Angeles, December 14, 1956.

SIDE 1, track 3 / SIDE 2, track 6:
Eddie Chamble (tenor saxophone), Mack Easton (baritone saxophone),
Goon Gardner (alto saxophone), Ransom Knowling (bass), John Young (piano),
and LeRoy Jackson (drums).
Recorded in Chicago, April 21, 1955.

SIDE 2, track 4:
Jimmy Rogers (guitar), Junior Wells (harmonica).
Probably Willie Dixon (bass), and Francis Clay (drums).
Recorded in Chicago, April 21, 1955.

SIDE 1, track 6 / SIDE 2, track 7, probable personnel:
Walter Nelson (guitar), Frank Fields (bass), Cornelius Coleman (drums),
Lee Allen (tenor saxophone), Herb Hardesty (baritone saxophone),
Wendell Duconge (alto saxophone), Dave Bartholomew (trumpet), unknown pianist. Recorded in Los Angeles, June 1954.

SIDE 1

01. TWO BONES AND A PICK
02. MEAN OLD WORLD
03. T-BONE SHUFFLE
04. STORMY MONDAY BLUES
05. BLUES FOR MARILI
06. TEEN AGE BABY (*)

SIDE 2

01. T-BONE BLUES
02. SHUFFLIN’ THE BLUES
03. EVENIN’
04. PLAY ON LITTLE GIRL
05. BLUES ROCK
06. PAPA AIN’T SALTY
07. BYE, BYE BABY (*)