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T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker - biography
King and such rockers as Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan.Walker's sophisticated playing in the 1930s and 1940s bridged the gap between jazz and blues and created a style which has influenced every electric guitarist since."He has a touch that nobody has been able to duplicate," stated B.By the time he was 16, Walker was making enough money on his own in Dallas to become a professional, working various dances and carnivals.Bone (Walker lived in the Dallas suburb of Oak Cliff).Walker turned his job over to another guitarist who went on to become as important and equally influential, Charlie Christian.It's hard to say who was the first electric guitarist at this point, but Walker, Christian, Eddie Durham, and Floyd Smith were all beginning to see the advantages an amplified guitar's volume had in a club setting when competing with the full horn section of a big band.He played a large Gibson hollowbody guitar, held straight out from his chest and parallel to the floor (which contributed in part to his unique tone) but would cut loose and play behind his back, between his legs or do the splits in an effort to get the crowd going.He had, as Dan Forte stated in Guitar Player, "the uncanny ability to burn and stay cool at the same time."Walker may have been the one to elevate the status of the blues, but the lifestyle it demanded certainly took its toll on him.Bone Walker's Career
Worked as a professional musician at dances and carnivals in Dallas with such groups as the Cab Calloway Band, the Coley Jones Dallas String Band, and the Lawson Brooks Band, c.Bone Jumps Again Charly, 1980.The History The Music The Players, Quill, 1984.Guitar World, December 1987.Bone Walker an unpayable debt of gratitude.King has long cited him as a primary influence, marveling at Walker's penchant for holding the body of his guitar outward while he played it.Walker during the late '40s and early '50s.KingCharlie ChristianLowell FulsonErnie AndrewsSee AlsoNick CooperInfluenced ByBlind Lemon JeffersonLonnie JohnsonLeroy CarrFollowersLonnie BrooksHarry "Fats" CraftonPee Wee CraytonRonnie EarlJohnny HeartsmanLonesome SundownThe BlastersGeorge ThorogoodMel BrownBee HoustonGuitar SlimW.This is a celebration of The Blues that will bring music lovers together in this birthplace of musical giants.Proceeds generated by the 2008 festival will be shared with the Fairview Community Center and the Music City Texas Theater.Bone's daughter and members of her family.BONE FESTIVAL PHOTO GALLERY POSTED!Funded in part by a grant from the Texas Department of Agriculture, Texas Yes!
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