T-Bone Walker - 1950-1952

By late 1950 T-bone Walker was singing at times more like an R&B crooner in the manner of Bull Moose Jackson. Everything on this volume in the Classics T-bone chronology was originally issued on the Imperial label, and legend has it these stylized performances didn't go over as well with the public as had his Black & White recordings from a few years earlier. Here the arrangements call for a trumpet and sax section behind the vocalist. The material recorded in August 1951 is tougher and more in line with tradition. Read More