T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Blues Plus Sings the Blues Plus 5 Bonus Tracks (2021)

Tracklist

01. Two Bones and a Pick
02. Mean Old World
03. T-Bone Shuffle
04. Stormy Monday Blues
05. Blues for Marili
06. T-Bone Blues
07. Shufflin' the Blues
08. Evenin'
09. Play on Little Girl
10. Blues Rock
11. Papa Ain'T Salty
12. Strollin' with Bones
13. You Don'T Love Me
14. You Don'T Understand
15. Welcome Blues (Aka Say! Pretty Baby)
16. Tell Me What'S the Reason
17. Blue Mood
18. The Sun Went Down
19. Travelin' Blues
20. Evil Hearted Woman
21. Cold, Cold Feeling
22. I Got the Blues Again
23. Blues Is a Woman
24. Teen Age Baby
25. You Don'T Know What You'Re Doing
26. Get These Blues Off Me
27. Hard Way
28. Bye, Bye Baby



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.

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