T-Bone Walker
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Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker and Otis Spann: Super Black Blues
Review by Bob Fisher, Cream, June 1972
IT'S TAKEN Phillips a long time to get around to issuing this superb album, probably the only genuine spontaneous blues jam ever commited to wax. ...
T-Bone Walker: The Complete Imperial Recordings, 1950-1954 (Imperial/EMI)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, 1991
CONTEMPORARY BLUES guitar starts here. True enough, everything has its origins in something else: Aaron Thibaux "T-Bone" Walker (1910 – 1975) had hung out in ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 3 May 1975
If you're a living blues master, are you better off dead? ...
Book Review by Don Snowden, The Boston Phoenix, 24 December 1987
T-BONE WALKER occupies a peculiarly ambiguous place in blues history considering hes the man credited with inventing the single-string style of electric blues-guitar playing. Virtually ...
T-Bone Walker: The Complete Recordings of T-Bone Walker, 1940-1954 (Mosaic)
Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 16 September 1990
The Complete Recordings of T-Bone Walker, 1940-1954 display the bluesman's seminal influence on the genre ...
T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Witherspoon: T-Bone Opens to Capacity Crowd at Last Word
Live Review by J.T. Gipson, The California Eagle, 13 May 1948
Cafe Society Fetes Noted Blues Singer in High Fashion ...
Obituary by 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 ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, June 1966
WHEN AARON T-Bone Walker plays guitar he makes people cry and he gets response from the audience as though the performance was really a church ...
T-Bone Walker: Stormy Monday Blues (Stateside Bluesway SL10223)
Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 17 February 1968
FIVE T-BONE originals, including his new version of the title song, are to be heard on Stormy Monday Blues (Stateside Bluesway SL10223), latest album from guitarist-singer T-Bone ...
T-Bone — Showman and Guitar Pioneer
Obituary by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 5 April 1975
Max Jones pays tribute to T-Bone Walker ...
T-Bone Walker: Thorny Problem Of Mixing The Blues With Modern Jazz
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 17 December 1966
I HAVE always looked on T-Bone Walker as being more of a jazz-blues singer than a folk or country-type artist. In other words, as a ...
Live Review by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 19 April 1970
'Sing Your Own Blues' ...
Payin' Some Dues — Blues at Ann Arbor
Live Review by Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 18 August 1969
"I'd like for them to hear the real things. I don't think yet that most of the white people like my music because it's blues. I ...
Various Artists: Masters Of West Coast Guitar 1946-1956
Sleeve notes by Neil Slaven, JSP Records, 2016
THE ROUTE TO the West Coast guitar skills so influential in the development of blues-and rock-guitar is a well-travelled one that can't avoid its well-spring, ...
T-Bone Walker, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers: Flamingo, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 13 March 1965
THE GREAT T-Bone Walker opened at London's Flamingo on Friday with an hour of beefy blues. ...
T-Bone Walker: Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 12 March 1968
T-BONE WALKER, the Texas bluesman who composed 'Stormy Monday', treated a fair-sized crowd to an extended set of modern and traditional music for the second ...
Various Artists: The Rough Guide To Texas Blues
Review by Tony Burke, Vintage Jazz Mart, Spring 2022
ROUGH GUIDE/WMN have issued some excellent pre-war blues sets recently. This set features 26 sides cut between 1926 and 1937 from the Lone Star State – ...
T-Bone Walker: Rare Blues and a Worldwide Reputation
Retrospective by Tony Russell, The History of Rock, 1983
T-BONE WALKER, had he been that sort of man, might have carried a chip on his shoulder the size of the Chrysler Building. ...
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