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The Blues acrobat

T-Bone Walker (1910-1975)

Aaron Thibeaux Walker or T-Bone Walker è nato in Linden, Texas nel 1910 da genitori afroamericani and Native American (Cherokee). If you ask 10
bluesmen who were their main sources of inspiration for sure at least 8 of them will respond by citing the name of this great musician Texas.

T-Bone Walker was the undisputed king of the blues for all the '40s, his records were selling thousands of copies and he also simultaneously accounted for 12 record labels.
was the most popular and influential guitarist of the American music of the time. T-Bone Walker was credited with revolutionizing the world forever by imposing the blues in the mid-30's electric guitar as a crucial tool. He also managed wisely elements enter into the world of jazz and swing blues (even here it is was the first to do so) by making alongside big bands, changing forever the way we think these kinds of music. Until then, in fact, the blues was characterized by the use of acoustic guitar accompanied alternately or simultaneously, the plane and a few primitive tools, such as the "washboard".

If this still is not enough to know that his "Call it Stormy Monday" is one of the most famous blues songs ever, virtually no blues musician who has not played at least once in concert or on disc. This popular song has also brought another great musical innovation: for the first time a song was "open" an introduction to guitar.

Most scholars of music history with their claims that this song opens the era of modern blues. For the revolutionary impact that his music had on the whole environment is comparable only to that which was about 25 years after Jimi Hendrix (who has always said T-Bone as one of his influences). But the wave of novelty T-Bone Walker took the music world does not stop there, for he was a real tightrope in the live shows often playing the guitar behind his back or middle of the legs, then this thing was "copied "from the likes of Buddy Guy, the same Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
T-Bone Walker died in 1975 at the age of 64 years.

(Text taken from freely rocklab.it)