Blues for Aficionados

T-Bone Walker

THE COMPLETE IMPERIAL RECORDINGS, 1950-1954

Imperial / EMI Blues Series   1950-1954  /  1991
2CD Set

wiki:  Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was an American blues musician, composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues and electric blues sound.
Born  May 28, 1910 Linden, Texas
Died  March 16, 1975 (aged 64) Los Angeles, California

Notes: "The Blues was different before T-Bone came onto the scene and it hasn't been the same since."

Disc One:

Glamour Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbLrRFsfRME

Life Is Too Short
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZDj0ehzKOM

Travelin' Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opG0LrX_CrU

Alimony Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0M4JSgZ04I

and 22 more!

Cheers

T-Bone Walker

THE COMPLETE IMPERIAL RECORDINGS, 1950-1954

Imperial / EMI Blues Series  1950-1954 / 1991
2CD Set

Notes: "While rightly considered the true father of modern blues, Walker's career as a Blues performer was far more broadly comprehensive than just that--as if that alone were not enough--encompassing virtually every major development in black folk-based popular music of the 20th century."

Disc 2:

Blues Is A Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0DYFhbB7f8

I Got The Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xauGfdsVM28

When The Sun Goes Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj2e1p2BY4A

Strugglin' Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeOwFHyyiKY

Here In The Dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S45253xcU_c

Cheers

T-Bone Walker

T-BONE BLUES

Atlantic Jazz     1972 / 1989

Notes: "That the Blues are the wellspring of Jazz has never been better illustrated than in recent years when almost to a man the ranks of Jazz turned again to the Blues for inspiration.  Not today's rock 'n roll, but the deeper Rhythm & Blues and country Blues singing of such men as Champion Jack Dupree, Muddy Waters and Lighting Hopkins, is a direct and living link to the Blues-singing wanderers who first spread this music throughout the South."

T-Bone Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxCzMAFrTJ8

Papa Ain't Salty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QjhOhROP58

Call It Stormy Monday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xifoTGRBhg0

How Long Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqST78K5C8c

Cheers

Little Walter

BLUES WITH A FEELING: CHESS COLLECTIBLES VOL.3

MCA Chess    1995
2CD Set

wiki: Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica had a strong impact on succeeding generations, earning him comparisons to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix.  He was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, the first and, to date, only artist to be inducted specifically as a harmonica player.

Blue Midnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atm8qZIjxRs

Juke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJEKQuuRpss

Fast Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tqI0k1z5DM

Shake Dancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orvv1G4wCC0

Cheers

Little Walter

THE ESSENTIAL LITTLE WALTER

MCA Chess   1993
2CD Set

Notes:  "Little Walter was a singular figure among the Chess artist roster by virtue of the fact that he was the only one whose popular appeal rested principally on his skill as an instrumental virtuoso."

Very true.  His singing is not so such a much.

Quarter To Twelve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KawB0vDHjxc

Walkin' On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE-SV-dp0-Y

Sad Hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgTu_CzBZ3k

Mean Old World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao0pQaQZfpQ

and 42 more!!

Cheers