T-Bone Walker - Beginning 1929-1946

One of the most important and original figures in blues, T-bone Walker not only lit up the blues idiom with his one-of-a-kind guitar work, but he also helped set the stage for rock & roll via jump blues. Ranging from smoky ballads to swinging blues, Walker matched his scintillating picking with some slightly gruff yet smoothly urbane vocals. This fine collection brings together the country blues material he cut in 1929 as Oak Cliff T-bone ("Trinity Rive Blues"), some early-'40s cuts on Capitol ("Mean Old World"), and his initial sides for the L.A. Read More