T-Bone Walker ... Aaron Thibeaux 'T-Bone' Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was an American blues musician, composer, songwriter and bandleader, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues, West Coast blues, and electric blues sounds.

You can tell a man who’s raised on blues by the way he plays guitar. T-Bone Walker’s career surely fits this description.  Both his parents were musicians and with family friend Blind Lemon Jefferson often making an appearance at home, T-Bone was saturated with blues since day one. 

He began his professional career in Dallas in the early 1920s. T-Bone was signed to various record labels throughout his life, with Columbia cutting his debut deal under which he released Trinity River Blues and Wichita Falls Blues. Walker was credited as a pioneer of jump blues (a fusion between jazz, blues and boogie woogie). He was the first to make the guitar wail and imitated human emotions with intricate phrasing, staccato and acrobatic string bending techniques. 

T-Bone Walker ruled the West Coast blues scene with many performances taking place in Los Angeles rather than Chicago, where most of his predecessors gained fame.

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