T-Bone Walker

2 LPs ON 1 CD

INCLUDES 5 BONUS TRACKS - 4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

The legendary T-Bone Walker is a fundamental source of the modern urban style of playing and singing the blues. His single-string solos influenced giants like B.B. King and such blues-rockers as Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan. This quintessential release includes two of Walker’s finest albums: T-Bone Blues (Atlantic, 1960) and Sings the Blues (Imperial, 1959).

For the former LP Atlantic took some chances with Walker, dispatching him to Chicago for a 1955 date with Junior Wells and Jimmy Rogers that produced 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” (which findsT-Bone dueling it out with nephew R.S. Rankin and jazzman Barney Kessel). The latter record featured Walker’s 1950-1952 sides for the Imperial label. Both albums have been remastered and packaged together in this very special collector’s edition, which alsoincludes 5 bonus tracks from the same period.

PERSONNEL:

T-BONE WALKER, vocals and lead guitar, plus:

Jimmy Rogers, Barney Kessel (guitar), Ransom Knowling, Joe Comfort (bass),
Lloyd Glenn, Ray Johnson (piano), Earl Palmer (drums),
Plas Johnson (tenor saxophone), Dave Bartholomew (trumpet), among others.

Recorded in Chicago and Los Angeles, 1950-1957.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

T-BONE BLUES
01 TWO BONES AND A PICK
02 MEAN OLD WORLD
03 T-BONE SHUFFLE
04 STORMY MONDAY BLUES
05 BLUES FOR MARILI
06 T-BONE BLUES
07 SHUFFLIN’ THE BLUES
08 EVENIN’
09 PLAY ON LITTLE GIRL
10 BLUES ROCK
11 PAPA AIN’T SALTY

SINGS THE BLUES
12 STROLLIN’ WITH BONES
13 YOU DON’T LOVE ME
14 YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND
15 WELCOME BLUES (aka SAY! PRETTY BABY)
16 TELL ME WHAT’S THE REASON
17 BLUE MOOD
18 THE SUN WENT DOWN
19 TRAVELIN’ BLUES
20 EVIL HEARTED WOMAN
21 COLD, COLD FEELING
22 I GOT THE BLUES AGAIN
23 BLUES IS A WOMAN

Bonus tracks
24 TEEN AGE BABY
25 YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING
26 GET THESE BLUES OFF ME
27 HARD WAY
28 BYE, BYE BABY

TOTAL TIME: 79:52