Wednesday, December 7th
timeless
T-Bone Walker (1910-1975, vocals, guitar) with Memphis Slim (piano), Willie Dixon (bass), Jump Jackson (drums), “Don’t Throw Your Love on Me So Strong,” live (TV), Germany, 1962
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2020
Monday, August 10th
two takes
“Cold, Cold Feeling” (J. M. Robinson)
T-Bone Walker (1910-1975, vocals, guitar), 1952
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Albert Collins (1932-1993, vocals, guitar), 1978
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my back pages
The other day, on Spotify, I saw that this track—something I co-produced in another life—had over 4 million plays. If someone had told me, when we were working on this album, that someday it would “stream” to millions of listeners, I would have wondered: What are you smoking?
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random sights
other day, Chicago
2014
Monday, November 3rd
blues festival (day one)
T-Bone Walker (1910-1975), “Don’t Throw Your Love on Me So Strong,” live (TV show), Germany, 1962*
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art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Claude Monet (1840-1926), The Customs House at Varengeville, 1897
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random thoughts
Every painting was once a blank canvas.
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*With Memphis Slim (piano), Willie Dixon (bass), Jump Jackson (drums).
2011
Wednesday, 11/2/11
This guy sounded so good the other day—let’s hear some more.
B.B. King with T-Bone Walker, “Bad News”/“Sweet Sixteen”
Live, Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey, California), 9/16/1967
2009
Thursday, 9/17/09
Blues Guitar Festival/day 2 of 3
A blues guitarist backed by, let’s see, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, James Moody, and Teddy Wilson? With most blues artists that might seem odd. Not T-Bone Walker.
T-Bone Walker, live, England, 1966
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“When I heard T-Bone Walker play the electric guitar I had to have one. T-Bone Walker has a touch that nobody has been able to duplicate.”—B.B. King
“T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.”—Johnny Winter
“The first thing I can remember was my mother singing the blues as she would sit alone. I used to listen to her singing there at night, and I knew then that the blues was in me too.”—T-Bone Walker
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