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T-Bone Walker Dead at 64

Jerry Wexler, Rolling Stone, 24 April 1975

LOS ANGELES — Aaron "T-Bone" Walker died of bronchial pneumonia March 16th at the Vernon Convalescent Hospital. The 64-year-old Texas blues guitarist, famous for standards like 'Stormy Monday', had not performed in public since a date in Pittsburgh last June. Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records writes about his recollections of T-Bone.

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