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T-Bone Walker is today’s featured artist. Aaron Thibeaux Walker was born just
west of the Louisiana state line in Lindon, Texas on May 28, 1910. Walker came
from a musical family and got his start as a professional musician in Dallas where,
as a teenager, he played with Blind Lemon Jefferson. Walker was a pioneer and
innovator of the jump blues, West Coast blues, and electric blues sounds.
In 2018 Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 67 on its list of
“The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”
T-BONE WALKER RESOURCES
Biography @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Blues Foundation
The Story of Stormy Monday @ wikipedia.org
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2024
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Strollin’ With Bone, Pt. 1
Kid Ramos
West Coast House Party 2000
Oop Bop Sh’ Bam Dizzy Gillespie Musicraft Records 1946
Alexander’s Ragtime Band Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book
Straighten up and Fly Right Oscar Brown Jr. Sin & Soul …And Then Some 1961
Fine & Mellow Ruth Brown Fine & Mellow 1991
Don’t Burn The Candle At Both Ends
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Decca Records 1948
Jumpin’ at the Woodside
Johnny Otis & His Orchestra
Spirit of the Black Territory Bands 1992
Confession Blues The Maxin Trio Down Beat Records 1949
Take Our Time Sweetie & The Toothaches Fired Up! 2024
Flo & Joe Nat King Cole Capitol Records 1948
I’m Waiting For Your Call
T-Bone Walker
Black & White Records 1948
West Side Baby
Dinah Washington
Mercury Records 1948
Everything Happens to Me Samara Joy Samara Joy 2021
Everything I Do Is Wrong Roy Milton Specialty Records 1948
Seven Long Days Janiva Magness My Bad Luck Soul 1999
They Raided The Joint Helen Humes Mercury Records 1947
Inspiration Blues
T-Bone Walker
Comet Records 1948
Pony Tail
Duke Robillard
A Tribute To T-Bone Walker 2004
Evening
Johnny Big Stone & the Blues Workers
…Plays T-Bone Walker 2020
Sam’s Blues Sam Taylor Tease! The Beat of Burlesque 1956
Money’s Getting Cheaper
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Charles Brown
Exclusive Records 1948
I Cried for You Billie Holiday Billie Holiday 1954
Lonesome Lover Blues
Count Basie Orchestra & Billy Eckstine
Basie/Eckstine Inc 1959
Bobbie’s Boogie Doug James Blow Mr. Low 2001
Be Careful Buddy Johnson Decca Records 1951
Night Train Rod Stewart Swing Fever 2024
Rock Daniel
Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra w/ Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Decca Records 1941
Going To The River Fats Domino Imperial Records 1952
Riffette
Freddie Slack & His Orchestra w/ T-Bone Walker
Capitol Records 1943
Kansas City
Jimmy Witherspoon w/ T-Bone Walker & Clifford Scott
Evenin’ Blues 1964
T-Bone Shuffle
T-Bone Walker
Capitol Records 1947
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)
T-Bone Walker
Black & White Records 1947
(sign off)
Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005