T-Bone Walker

Aaron Thibeaux “T-Bone” Walker was an American blues musician, composer, songwriter, and bandleader who pioneered the jump blues, West Coast blues, and electric blues sounds. Walker was born on May 28, 1910 in Linden, Texas and died on March 16, 1975. He was the first to make a guitar wail, cry out, and buckle under…

T-Bone Walker

Walker was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. In 2018, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 67 on its list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”. 

Here are some of Walker’s songs: “Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad), “Mean Old World, and “T-Bone Shuffle.


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