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T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Blues (1957)

Track listing:
  1. Papa Ain't Salty 2:42
  2. Why Not 2:39
  3. T-Bone Shuffle 2:44
  4. Play On Little Girl 2:28
  5. T-Bone Blues Special 2:34
  6. Mean Old World 4:03
  7. T-Bone Blues 3:44
  8. Call It Stormy Monday 2:58
  9. Blues For Marili 4:16
  10. Shufflin' The Blues 3:18
  11. Evenin' 2:35
  12. Two Bones And A Pick 2:48
  13. You Don't Know What You're Doi 1:49
  14. How Long Blues 5:15
  15. Blues Rock 2:46

Notes

The last truly indispensable disc of the great guitar hero's career, and perhaps the most innately satisfying of all — these mid-'50s recordings boast magnificent presence, with Walker's axe so crisp and clear it seems as though he's sitting right next to you as he delivers a luxurious remake of "Call It Stormy Monday." Atlantic took some chances with Bone, dispatching him to Chicago for a 1955 date with Junior Wells and Jimmy Rogers that produced "Why Not" and "Papa Ain't Salty." Even better were the 1956-57 L.A. dates that produced the scalding instrumental "Two Bones and a Pick" (finding Walker duelling it out with nephew R.S. Rankin and jazzman Barney Kessel).