T-Bone Walker
Pioneer of "jump blues" and a blues guitar legend.
T-Bone Walker
About The artist
"Modern electric blues guitar can be traced directly back to this Texas-born pioneer, who began amplifying his sumptuous lead lines for public consumption circa 1940 and thus initiated a revolution so total that its tremors are still being felt today.
"Few major postwar blues guitarists come to mind that don't owe T-Bone Walker an unpayable debt of gratitude."
Bill Dahl, Allmusic.com
Did you know...
The Texas bassist Marco Washington was either the stepfather or uncle of T-Bone Walker (accounts vary). He taught T-Bone to play the guitar, ukulele, banjo, violin, mandolin, and piano.
