When it comes to blues guitar legends, few are as groundbreaking as T-Bone Walker. Born Aaron Thibeaux Walker on May 28, 1910 ...

This week’s Classic Americana pick spotlights a massively influential blues guitarist: T-Bone Walker.

Aaron Thibeaux Walker was born in Linden ... around 1935 which is in line with the development of the same. T-Bone developed a unique method of playing, in that he would hold the guitar slanting it ...

T-Bone Walker was one of those whose ears were tuned to future prospects and fame. The lightning flash that the invention of the charged-up guitar brought was perfect timing for him. He was ready ...

T-Bone Walker swung the blues, made his guitar cry like no one else and wrote a classic in "Call It Stormy Monday." The Library of Congress agrees. T-Bone Walker's 'Stormy Monday' T-Bone Walker's ...

As one of the first guitarists to play blues on the electric guitar, the great T-Bone Walker would influence legends such as BB King, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix (who emulated his trick of playing with ...

T-Bone Walker was born in Linden in 1910 ... T-Bone not only played the guitar behind his head and did splits in time with the music, he also composed memorable blues lyrics, one of which is ...

BECAUSE HE HAS collaborated with such blues legends as Willie Dixon, Guitar Slim and T-Bone Walker, Guitar Shorty is often pigeonholed as an old-school bluesman. But he was also Jimi Hendrix's ...

from T-Bone Walker to B.B. King, Freddie King, Buddy Guy and many others. Credit: Future Figure 2 shows the G blues scale in 3rd position. One could stick with this scale through the entirety of ...

He began playing guitar as a young boy, excited by the sounds of B.B. King, Guitar Slim, T-Bone Walker and Earl Hooker. After a move to Tampa when he was 17, Kearney won a slot as a featured guitarist ...

Other famous musicians to use the electric guitar in its early years are jazz artists Eddie Durham and Oscar Moore, country stars Noel Boggs and Merle Travis and blues artists T-Bone Walker and ...