T-Bone Walker

• LIMITED EDITION CLASSIC LPs

• 180 gr. VINYL–AUDIOPHILE PRESSING

• HIGH-DEFINITION PREMIUM VINYL

• PRESSING FOR SUPER FIDELITY

• INCLUDES 2 BONUS TRACKS

Legendary blues guitarist T-Bone Walker was not only one of the most influential musicians to rise up from the fertile Texas blues scene, but his impact on blues guitar worldwide cannot be understated. T-Bone Walker is the source of single-note, horn-type blues soloing. In addition, his phrasing was so expressive of the blues sensibility that it has come to define the style of every electric blues and rock guitarist who has followed in his dancing footsteps.

This edition includes one of Walker’s finest albums, the sensational T-Bone Blues, originally released by Atlantic Records in 1960. For these recordings Atlantic took some chances with Walker, dispatching him to Chicagofor 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” and “Stormy Monday Blues” (also known as “Call It Stormy Monday”), with its superb 12-bar chorus.

PERSONNEL:

• T-BONE WALKER - (vocals and lead guitar), plus:

• ON TRACKS A1 / B3 & B5:
• R.S. Rankin, Barney Kessel (guitar), Joe Comfort (bass), Ray Johnson (piano), Earl Palmer (drums), and Plas Johns on (tenor saxophone).
• Recorded in Los Angeles, December 27, 1957.

• ON TRACKS A2, A4 & A5 / B1 & B2:
• Billy Hadnott (bass), Lloyd Glenn (piano), and Oscar Bradley (drums).
• Recorded in Los Angeles, December 14, 1956.

• ON TRACKS A3 / B6:
• Eddie Chamble (tenor sax), Mack Easton (baritone sax), Goon Gardner (alto sax), Ransom Knowling (bass), John Young (piano), and LeRoy Jackson (drums).
• Recorded in Chicago, April 21, 1955.

• ON TRACKS A6 / B7, probable personnel: Walter Nelson (guitar), Frank Fields (bass), Cornelius Coleman (drums), Lee Allen (tenor sax), Herb Hardesty (baritone sax), Wendell Duconge (alto sax), Dave Bartholomew (trumpet), unknown pianist.
• Recorded in Los Angeles, June 1954.

• ON TRACKS B4: Jimmy Rogers (guitar), Junior Wells (harmonica). Probably Willie Dixon (bass), and Francis Clay (drums).
• Recorded in Chicago, April 21, 1955.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. TWO BONES AND A PICK
• A2. MEAN OLD WORLD
• A3. T-BONE SHUFFLE
• A4. STORMY MONDAY BLUES
• A5. BLUES FOR MARILI
• A6. TEEN AGE BABY (*)

• SIDE B
• B1. T-BONE BLUES
• B2. SHUFFLIN’ THE BLUES
• B3. EVENIN’
• B4. PLAY ON LITTLE GIRL
• B5. BLUES ROCK
• B6. PAPA AIN’T SALTY
• B7. BYE, BYE BABY (*)

• (*) BONUS TRACKS