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This Is My Fave Guitarist: T-Bone Walker Doing Damage In "You Don't Love Me" Even though he's synonymous with "Stormy Monday", I loved it when he re-recorded this gem. I could listen to this man play away anytime,,,,,
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Part of the magic is seeing him do it because he was also a showman... "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Loving every minute.
Ya know, as much as I love listening to him, I've rarely searched his videos in youtube. Somebody posted this clip in another board which triggered my need to search more for his footages...
Do you see what I see? | |
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I'm sure that was alot to take in for whoever was present 
and on a side note, Miss Helen Humes' versatility doesn't cease to baffle me.You mentioned Charlie Christian, did they record/perform together? | |
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Perform? Yes. Record? Not that i'm aware of.
Fascinatingly, around 1933 he also briefly had a street act in Oklahoma City with Charlie Christian: the founding geniuses of electric jazz guitar and electric blues guitar, trading off on guitar and string bass, playing, dancing, jiving, and hustling together! T-Bone, like Christian, was soon to make a decisive move to the West Coast, and there he eventually joined Les Hite's traveling big band, in which he worked as featured vocalist in 1940, not even playing guitar on stage.
...http://www.there1.com/bro...;idnum=115
Walker had already met a young man who would do for jazz guitar what Walker did for blues — electrify it. Charlie Christian was six years younger than Walker. The two played shows together and Christian influenced Walker's approach to the blues. In the March 1977 issue of Guitar Player Magazine, the late Jimmy Witherspoon compared Walker to another jazz great.
...http://www.npr.org/templa...d=96761445
Soon after dropping out of high school in the late '20s,Walker found a kindred musical spirit early on when he met Charlie Christian in Oklahoma City, and both youngsters later went on to study with the same guitar teacher and perform together.
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It's interesting that T-Bone Walker and Charlie Christian-two of the most influential guitarists of all time-spent considerable time playing together during their formative years, then followed such different stylistic paths. Their singular yet overlapping styles (Walker jazzed-up single-note lines and comped sophisticated chord progressions like Christian; Christian, conversely, occasionally bent blue notes like Walker) make it apparent that some degree of osmosis had transpired between the two future legends, just as it has for the tens of thousands of disciples who later devoured T-Bone's records.
...http://truefire.com/tftv/...nnel=tbone
Music for adventurous listeners
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Even though this is my first time knowing about this, I'm not the least bit surprised. Its only natural that those two masters should cross roads given how much they pioneered the electric guitar instrument. I've always felt that Mr.Walker was the direct disciple of Charlie Christian, which is even more amazing to me, given that the latter is younger than Mr.Walker.
Reading this info about their relationship make so much sense. | |
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Any serious student of the electric guitar has got to pass through these two. "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Well it should be of note that most of the legendary bluesmen only played to deal with the bullshit they were dealt with constantly though if you talked to them they rarely complained and said that they always used music to make them happy even if it was singing about bad times. By the time they began to hit the recording studios, most of them were over 35 or inching at 40, like Howlin' Wolf so it don't surprise me that T-Bone waited until after WWII to record music. Most of them started their professional careers after their time serving the country. | |
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