T Bone Walker Songs Ranked

Aaron Thibeaux “T-Bone” Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues and electric blues sound. In 2018 Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 67 on its list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”. By the early 1960s, Walker’s career had slowed down, in spite of an energetic performance at the American Folk Blues Festival in 1962 with the pianist Memphis Slim and the prolific writer and musician Willie Dixon, among others. However, several critically acclaimed albums followed, such as I Want a Little Girl (recorded for Delmark Records in 1968). Walker recorded in his last years, from 1968 to 1975, for Robin Hemingway’s music publishing company, Jitney Jane Songs. He won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording in 1971 for Good Feelin’, while signed with Polydor Records, produced by Hemingway, followed by another album produced by Hemingway, Fly Walker Airlines, released in 1973 Walker was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Here are all of T Bone Walker songs ranked

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10. The Hustle is On (The Hustle is On, 1950)

“T Bone Walker is a legend & without him blues could well of been a different type of music all together . A must in any collection even if your not a true blues fan.”

9. Please Come Back to Me (Come Back to Me Baby, 1946)

“This is another lovely blues track. He has a very good voice as it booms out and he is blessed with the natural power full voice. Then he is also an excellent guitar player. “

8. Wrong Doing Woman (Wrong Doing Woman, 1950)

“T-Bone Walker was probably the best electric guitarist before Jimi Hendrix and, some decades before Hendrix, he often played guitar behind his back and neck and between his legs on stage.”

7. Wichita Falls Blues (Wichita Falls Blues, 1930)

“This recording is an auspicious start for an immortal. I had the pleasure of seeing T-Bone at the Ash Grove in Hollywood in 1971 at the other end of his playing days.”

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6. Evening (Evening, 1945)

“Evening finds T-Bone Walker working with a jazz band. The trumpet in the background has a 1920s feel to it. Yet the real stars are Walker’s powerful lead vocal and his soulful guitar solo.”

5. Bobby Sox Blues (Bobby Sox Blues, 1946)

“”Bobby Sox Blues” by T-Bone Walker, on which he is accompanied by Jack McVea & All Stars, is dead slow tempo urban blues with Walker’s electric guitar featuring throughout with prominent bass line, soft drumming and sultry tenor saxophone runs, the piano later becoming prominent, as T-Bone dumps his celebrity obsessed girlfriend”

4. Long Skirt Baby Blues (Long Skirt Baby Blues, 1948)

“The excellent record has an up tempo, jazzy rhythm & blues setting with T-Bone’s guitar leading, McDaniels’ insistent piano, gently riffing horns and a strong bass and drums rhythm section, also featuring a tenor saxophone solo by “Bumps” Myers and a squealing trumpet solo by Buckner, as Walker decries his woman’s antiquated, unsexy fashion sense.”

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3. West Side Baby (West Side Baby, 1948)

“West Side Baby” by T-Bone Walker is a dead slow-paced blues featuring Walker’s bluesy guitar runs and very subdued accompaniment by saxophone, piano and drums, but it is just another mediocre blues ballad.”

2. Call It Stormy Monday but Tuesday Is Just as Bad (Call It Stormy Monday, 1947)

” “Call It Stormy Monday” was the classic of all his classic recordings, and he never did it better than here with Lloyd Glenn (piano), Bumps Myers (tenor sax), Teddy Buckner (trumpet), Arthur Edwards (bass) and Oscar Lee Bradley (drums).”

1. Mean Old World (Mean Old World, 1945)

“This was a fantastic, modern blues guitar record when it first came out in late 1945 as part of a Capitol album set – but actually it had been recorded more than three years before, during a session of Freddie Slack’s big band. Aaron Thibeault “T-Bone” Walker, only present as a rhythm guitarist on this date, got a chance to take the spotlight for just two numbers, and even though these recordings were not used at the time, he eventually made blues history with his innovative, jazz-related playing of the electric guitar..”