Styles: Electric Texas Blues, West Coast Blues
Recorded: 1955-1957
Released: 1959/1994
Label: Atlantic/Sequel
File: mp3 @ 320kbps
Size: 111.38 MB
Time: 47:57
Art: Full Covers
1. Papa Ain\'t Salty - 2:45
2. Why Not - 2:44
3. T-Bone Shuffle - 2:47
4. Play On Little Girl - 2:29
5. T-Bone Blues Special - 2:28
6. Mean Old World- 4:05
7. T-Bone Blues - 3:45
8. Stormy Monday - 3:03
9. Blues For Marili - 4:18
10. Shufflin\' the Blues - 3:20
11. Evening - 2:37
12. Two Bones And A Pick - 2:47
13. You Don\'t Know What You\'re Doing - 1:43
14. How Long Blues - 5:15
15. Blues Rock - 2:41
Personnel: T-Bone WALKER - Guitar, Vocals
R.S. Rankin, Barney Kessel - Guitar
Ray Johnson, Lloyd Glenn, John Young - Piano
Joe Comfort, Billy Hadnott, Ransom Knowling, - Bass
Earl Palmer, Oscar Bradley, LeRoy Jackson - Drums
Junior Wells - Harmonica tr.4,5
Jimmy Rogers - Guitar tr.4,5
and The Horns Section
The last truly indispensable disc of the great guitar hero\'s career, and perhaps the most innately satisfying of all, these mid-\'50s recordings boast magnificent presence, with T-Bone Walker\'s axe so crisp and clear it seems as though he\'s sitting right next to you as he delivers a luxurious remake of \'Call It Stormy Monday.\' Atlantic took some chances with Walker, dispatching him to Chicago for a 1955 date with Junior Wells and Jimmy Rogers that produced \'Why Not\' and \'Papa Ain\'t Salty.\' Even better were the 1956-1957 L.A. dates that produced the scalding instrumental \'Two Bones and a Pick\' (which finds Walker duelling it out with nephew R.S. Rankin and jazzman Barney Kessel).