Walker, T-Bone: T-Bone Blues (Vinyl LP)

This quintessential LP edition includes one of Walker’s finest albums, the sensational T-Bone Blues, which was originally released by Atlantic Records in 1960, and has been long unavailable on vinyl. For these recordings Atlantic took some chances with Walker, dispatching him to Chicago for a 1955 date with Junior Wells and Jimmy Rogers which resulted in the great “Play on Little Girl.” Even better were the 1956-1957 L.A. dates that produced the scalding instrumental “Two Bones and a Pick” (it finds T-Bone dueling it out with nephew R.S. Rankin and jazzman Barney Kessel).

But if there’s one T-Bone Walker solo you have to know, it’s his 12-bar chorus from “Stormy Monday Blues” (also know as “Call It Stormy Monday”). The song was a cornerstone for B.B. King, and the great blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon called it “a national treasure".

1. Two Bones And A Pick
2. Mean Old World
3. T-Bone Shuffle
4. Stormy Monday Blues
5. Blues For Marili
6. T-Bone Blues
7. Shufflin' The Blues
8. Evenin'
9. Play On Little Girl
10. Blues Rock
11. Papa Ain't Salty