Tracks 1-11: T-Bone Blues (1960)
tracks 12-23: Sings The Blues (1959)
tracks 24-28: Bonus Tracks
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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.
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. |
