T-Bone Walker

Listal's favourite Guitarist (77 person items)

"5 Points"

Rock N Roll Timeline 1877-1959 (25 person items)

"The saxophone becomes the centerpiece sound of R&B and is used for its suggestiveness and its ability to incite a crowd into a frenzy as evidenced by Big Jay McNeely's smash "The Deacon's Hop" and the slowed down sultriness of Paul Williams "Hucklebuck". The electric guitar takes hold with the blues recordings of T-Bone Walker, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters and will soon become a centerpiece in R&B. Atlantic Records starts its run as R&B's biggest label with Stick McGee's "Drinkin "

My Favorite Guitar Tones (20 person items)

"You don't have to be loud, or full of all that super distortion. That's the thing I love about T-Bone Walker so much. He was the first master of the electric guitar and he wasn't loud and in your face, he simply blew you away by his masterful playing. I spent quite a while playing in a tone very similar to T-Bone's and I find it to be beautiful, but sounds so much better when you have a buddy playing with you on piano or even the saxaphone. This is like a Jazz tone that molds so well with horn i"

Origins of Guitar - The Original Masters (13 person items)

"Someone once asked me a few years ago who I personally thought had the most impact on guitar playing through out the world from the very beginning. I told them T-Bone Walker, and they had no clue who the guy even was. It's hard to believe listening to T-Bone that anyone was even close to this good back in the 1940's-1950's. This man was, far, far ahead of his time, and still listening to him you can see every root of the Allman Brothers to B.B. King, to Albert King, to Chuck Berry, and even Cl"

Ever heard this? REAL Underrated Guitar Players (13 person items)

" The first musician ever to record Blues on the electric guitar. T-Bone is one of the most important guitar players ever, as he also was a multi-instrumentalist, and a great pioneer to the electric guitar and Blues. The one thing that always sticks out to me is his tone and sound, notorious for the clean non-distorted electric, yet not over driven. Comparing other Blues men around his time, his sound was totally different. This legendary man was a huge inspiration to many, many guitar players "