T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker
Latest Release
- The Best Of The Black & White And Imperial Years
- March 2025
- • 19 Songs
Top Songs
| 1 | T-Bone Shuffle | ||
| 2 | Call It Stormy Monday | ||
| 3 | Papa Ain't Salty | ||
| 4 | I'm Still in Love with You | ||
| 5 | Travelin' Blues |
Albums
Oct 2024 • 23 songs
Mar 2024 • 20 songs
Nov 2022 • 12 songs
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Popular On
- Black Jazz Pioneers, Commercial-Free
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- All Blues Hits, Commercial-Free
About
Biography
Modern electric blues guitar can be traced directly back to this Texas-born pioneer, who began amplifying his sumptuous lead lines for public consumption circa 1940 and thus initiated a revolution so total that its tremors are still being felt today.
Few major postwar blues guitarists come to mind that don't owe T-Bone Walker an unpayable debt of gratitude. B.B. King has long cited him as a primary influence, marveling at Walker's penchant for holding the body of his guitar outward while he played it. Gatemouth Brown, Pee Wee Crayton, Goree Carter, Pete Mayes, and a wealth of...