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for|the football player|Aaron Walker (American football)Infobox musical artist | name = T-Bone Walker| image = T-Bone Walker, American Folk Blues Festival 1972 (Heinrich Klaffs Collection 46).jpg| caption =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Aaron Thibeaux Walker| alias = OakCliff T-Bone.| birth_date = Birth date|mf=yes|1910|5|28 Linden, Texas ,United States| death_date = Death date and age|mf=yes|1975|3|16|1910|5|28 Los Angeles, California , United States| instrument = Guitar, Vocals, piano, banjo , ukulele , violin , mandolin | genre = Blues , Texas blues , Chicago blues , jump blues , West Coast blues | occupation = Musician, Composer, Bandleader | years_active = 1928–1975| label = Atlantic Records|Atlantic , Black & Blue Records|Black & Blue , Black & White Records|Black & White , Blues Way Records, Brunswick Records|Brunswick , Capitol Records|Capitol , Charly Records|Charly , Columbia Records|Columbia , Duke Records|Duke , Imperial Records|Imperial , Modern Records|Modern , Polydor Records|Polydor , Reprise Records|Reprise | associated_acts =| website =| notable_instruments =Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was a critically acclaimed American Blues guitar playing|blues guitarist , singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist , who was one of the most influential pioneers and innovators of the jump blues and electric blues sound.cite web |first= |last= |url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p27828/biography|pure_url=yes |title=Biography by Bill Dahl |publisher=Allmusic.com |accessdate=June 4, 2009 He is the first musician recorded playing blues with the electric guitar .cite web |url= http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/WW/fwaap.html |title= Walker, Aaron Thibeaux (T-Bone) |first= Helen Oakley |last= Dance |author= |authorlink= Helen Oakley Dance |work= The Handbook of Texas Online |publisher= Texas State Historical Association |location= Denton, TX |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20080127150322/ http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/WW/fwaap.html |archivedate= 2008-01-27 |accessdate= May 14, 2010 In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked him at #47 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".cite web|url= http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/5945/32609/33089|title=47; T-Bone Walker|last=Wenner|first=Jan|year=2010|work=Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time|publisher=Wenner Media Websites: Rolling Stone|accessdate=16 November 2010
Biography
Early years
T-Bone Walker is the stage name for Aaron Thibeaux Walker http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php? id=11136 Allaboutjazz.com - accessed June 2009 was born in Linden, Texas , of African American and Cherokee descent. Walker's parents, Movelia Jimerson and Rance Walker, were both musicians. His stepfather, Marco Washington, taught him to play the guitar, ukulele , banjo , violin , mandolin , and piano.
Early in the 1920s, the teenage Walker learned his craft amongst the street-strolling String band (American music)|string bands of Dallas . His mother and stepfather, (member of the Dallas String Band) were musicians, and family friend BlindLemon Jefferson sometimes joined the family for dinner. Walker left school at age 10, and by 15, he was a professional performer on the blues circuit. Initially, he was Jefferson's protégé and would guide him around town for his Gig (musical performance)|gig s. In 1929, Walker made his recording debut with a single for Columbia Records , "Wichita Falls Blues"/"Trinity River Blues," billed as OakCliff T-Bone .OakCliff was the community he lived in at the time and T-Bone a corruption of his middle name. Pianist Douglas Fernell was his musical partner for the record. Walker married Vida Lee in 1935 and the couple had three children. By the age of 26 he was working the clubs in Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles ' Central Avenue (Los Angeles)|Central Avenue , sometimes as the featured singer and guitarist with Les Hite 's orchestra.
Newfound style
By 1942, with his second album release, Walker's new-found musical maturity and ability had advanced to the point that Rolling Stone claimed that he "shocked everyone" with his newly developed distinctive sound upon the release of his first single "Mean Old World", on the Capitol Records label. Much of his output was recorded from 1946–1948 on Black & White Records , including his most famous song, 1947's " Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad) ". Other notable songs he recorded during this period were "Bobby Sox Blues" (a #3 R& B hit in 1946), and "West Side Baby" (#8 on the R& B singles charts in 1948).Allmusic|class=album|id=r480939|pure_url=yes Blues Masters: The Very Best of T-Bone Walker review by Alex Henderson
Throughout his career Walker worked with top notch musicians, including trumpet er Teddy Buckner , pianist Lloyd Glenn , Billy Hadnott ( double bass|bass ), and tenor saxophone|tenor saxophonist Jack McVea .
Following his work with Black & White, he recorded from 1950-54 for Imperial Records (backed by Dave Bartholomew ). Walker's only record in the next five years was T-Bone Blues , recorded over three widely separated sessions in 1955, 1956 and 1959, and finally released by Atlantic Records in 1960.
By the early 1960s, Walker's career had slowed down, in spite of a hyped appearance at the American Folk Blues Festival in 1962 with Memphis Slim and prolific writer and musician Willie Dixon , among others. However, several critically acclaimed albums followed, such as I Want a Little Girl (recorded for Delmark Records in 1968). Walker recorded in his last years, from 1968–1975, for Robin Hemingway's Jitney Jane Songs Music publisher (popular music)|music publishing company, and he won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording in 1971 for Good Feelin ', while signed by Polydor Records , produced by Hemingway, followed by another album produced by Hemingway; Walker's Fly Walker Airlines which was released in 1973.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p27828/discography|pure_url=yes Allmusic.com discography
Persistent stomach woes and a 1974 stroke slowed Walker's career down to a crawl. He died of Bronchopneumonia|bronchial pneumonia following another stroke in March 1975, at the age of 64. http://blues.about.com/od/artistprofile1/p/T-BoneWalker.htm Blues.about.com - accessed June 2009 Walker was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California .cite web |url= http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi? page=gr& GRid=6037 |title=T-Bone 'Daddy of the Blues' Walker (1910 - 1975) - Find A Grave Memorial |accessdate=18 May 2011
Legacy
Walker was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980,cite web |url= http://www.blues.org/halloffame/inductees.php? YearId=25#ref=halloffame_inductees |title=.:The Blues Foundation :: Past Hall of Fame Inductees |accessdate=18 May 2011 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees|1987 .cite web |url= http://rockhall.com/inductees/t-bone-walker/ |title=T-Bone Walker: inducted in 1987 & #124; The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum |accessdate=18 May 2011
Chuck Berry named Walker and Louis Jordan as his main influences. http://www.there1.com/browse_articles.php? action=view_record& idnum=115 There1.com - accessed June 2009 B.B. King cites hearing Walker's "Stormy Monday" record as his inspiration for getting an electric guitar.cite album-notes |title=The Complete Imperial Recordings, 1950-1954 |artist=T-Bone Walker |year=1991 |first=Pete |last=Welding |authorlink=Pete Welding |pages=9-10 |format=CD booklet |publisher=EMI Records USA |publisherid=CDP-7-96737-2 |location= Hollywood, CA Walker was admired by Jimi Hendrix who imitated Walker's trick of playing the guitar with his teeth.cite book | first= Tony | last= Russell | year= 1997 | title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray | edition= | publisher= Carlton Books Limited | location= Dubai | pages= 58–59 | isbn= 1-85868-255-X "Stormy Monday" was a favorite live number for The Allman Brothers Band .
Discography
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)|Stormy Monday Blues (1947)
http://www.there1.com/browse_articles.php? action=view_record& idnum=115 There article
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