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T-Bone Walker

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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. [1]

75 relations: African Americans, All About Jazz, AllMusic, American Folk Blues Festival, Atlantic Records, B.B. King, Bandleader, Banjo, Black & Blue Records, Black & White Records, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blues, Blues Foundation, Blues Hall of Fame, Brunswick Records, Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad), Capitol Records, Central Avenue (Los Angeles), Charly Records, Cherokee, Chicago blues, Chuck Berry, Columbia Records, Dallas, Dave Bartholomew, Delmark Records, Double bass, Duke Records, Eddie Vinson, Electric blues, Evenin' Blues, Every Day I Have the Blues, Gig (music), Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, Imperial Records, Jack McVea, Jethro Tull (band), Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Witherspoon, John Peel, Jump blues, Les Hite, Linden, Texas, List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, Lloyd Glenn, Los Angeles, Louis Jordan, Mandolin, Marl Young, Mean Old World, ..., Memphis Slim, Modern Records, Multi-instrumentalist, Music publisher (popular music), Oak Cliff, Pneumonia, Polydor Records, Reprise Records, Rhumboogie Café, Rhythm and blues, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone, Steve Miller (musician), Stroke, T-Bone Walker, Teddy Buckner, Tenor saxophone, Texas blues, The Allman Brothers Band, Trumpet, Ukulele, Violin, Well Done, West Coast blues, Willie Dixon. Expand index (25 more) »

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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All About Jazz

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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American Folk Blues Festival

The American Folk Blues Festival was a music festival that toured Europe as an annual event for several years beginning in 1962.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a rock or pop group or jazz quartet.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Black & Blue Records

Black & Blue Records was a record company and label founded in France in 1968 that specialized in blues and jazz.

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Black & White Records

Black & White Records was an American record company and label that was founded by Les Schreiber in 1943.

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Blind Lemon Jefferson

Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929) was an American blues and gospel singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Blues Foundation

The Blues Foundation is an American nonprofit corporation, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, that is affiliated with more than 175 blues organizations from various parts of the world.

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Blues Hall of Fame

The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum located in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Brunswick Records

Brunswick Records is an American record label founded in 1916.

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Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)

"Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" (commonly referred to as "Stormy Monday") is a song written and recorded by American blues electric guitar pioneer T-Bone Walker.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Central Avenue (Los Angeles)

Central Avenue is a major north-south thoroughfare in the central portion of the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area.

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Charly Records

Charly Records is a British record label that specialises in reissued material.

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Cherokee

The Cherokee (translit or translit) are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands.

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Chicago blues

The Chicago blues is a form of blues music indigenous to Chicago, Illinois.

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Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Dave Bartholomew

David Louis Bartholomew (born December 24, 1918) is an American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger and record producer, prominent in the music of New Orleans throughout the second half of the 20th century.

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Delmark Records

Delmark Records is the oldest American jazz and blues independent record label.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Duke Records

Duke Records was an American record label, started in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1952 by David James Mattis (WDIA program director and DJ) and Bill Fitzgerald, owners of Tri-State Recording Company.

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Eddie Vinson

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L. Vinson Jr., December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter.

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Electric blues

Electric blues refers to any type of blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments.

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Evenin' Blues

Evenin' Blues is an album by blues vocalist Jimmy Witherspoon, which was recorded in 1963 and released on the Prestige label.

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Every Day I Have the Blues

"Every Day I Have the Blues" is a blues song that has been performed in a variety of styles.

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Gig (music)

Gig is slang for a live musical performance.

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Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording

The Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording was awarded from 1960 to 1986.

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Imperial Records

Imperial Records is an American record company and label started in 1947 by Lew Chudd and reactivated in 2006 by EMI, which owned the label and back catalogue at the time.

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Jack McVea

John Vivian "Jack" McVea (November 5, 1914 – December 27, 2000) was an African American swing, blues, and rhythm and blues woodwind player and bandleader.

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Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Jimmy Witherspoon

James Witherspoon (August 8, 1920 – September 18, 1997) was an American jump blues singer.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

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Jump blues

Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, usually played by small groups and featuring saxophone or brass instruments.

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Les Hite

Les Hite (February 13, 1903 in DuQuoin, Illinois – February 6, 1962 in Santa Monica, California) was an American jazz bandleader.

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Linden, Texas

Linden is a city in Cass County, Texas, United States.

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List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, established in 1983 and located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential musicians, bands, producers, and others that have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in the area of rock and roll.

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Lloyd Glenn

Lloyd Colquitt Glenn (November 21, 1909 — May 23, 1985) was an American R&B pianist, bandleader and arranger, who was a pioneer of the "West Coast" blues style.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Louis Jordan

Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was a pioneering American musician, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Marl Young

Marl Young (29 Jan 1917, Bluefield, Virginia, – 29 April 2009, Los Angeles, California) was an American musician and arranger who helped with the merger of the all-black and all-white musicians unions in Los Angeles in the early 1950s.

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Mean Old World

"Mean Old World" is a blues song recorded by American blues electric guitar musician T-Bone Walker in 1942.

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Memphis Slim

Memphis Slim (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988) was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer.

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Modern Records

Modern Music was an American record company and label formed in 1945 in Los Angeles by the Bihari brothers.

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Multi-instrumentalist

A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays two or more musical instruments at a professional level of proficiency.

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Music publisher (popular music)

In the music industry, a music publisher (or publishing company) is responsible for ensuring the songwriters and composers receive payment when their compositions are used commercially.

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Oak Cliff

Oak Cliff is a neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, United States that was formerly a separate town located in Dallas County; Dallas annexed Oak Cliff in 1903.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Reprise Records

Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra.

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Rhumboogie Café

The Rhumboogie Café, also referred to as the Rhumboogie Club, was an important, but short-lived nightclub at 343 East 55th Street, Chicago.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Steve Miller (musician)

Steven Haworth Miller (born October 5, 1943)Justin Kern.

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Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

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T-Bone Walker

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.

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Teddy Buckner

Teddy Buckner (July 16, 1909 in Sherman, Texas – September 22, 1994 in Los Angeles, California) was a jazz trumpeter associated with Dixieland music.

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Tenor saxophone

The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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Texas blues

Texas blues is a style of blues music.

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The Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals, songwriting), Berry Oakley (bass guitar), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Ukulele

The ukulele (from ukulele (oo-koo-leh-leh); variant: ukelele) is a member of the lute family of instruments.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Well Done

Well Done is a 2003 Tamil romantic drama film directed by Ravi Bhargavan, making his directorial debut.

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West Coast blues

The West Coast blues is a type of blues influenced by jazz and jump blues, with strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos, which originated from Texas blues players who relocated to California in the 1940s.

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Willie Dixon

William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bone_Walker

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