{"id":1892,"date":"2011-09-20T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2012-02-22T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T17:43:20","slug":"t-bone-walker-shes-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"T-Bone Walker – She’s a Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – T-Bone Walker – She’s a Hit <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here we all are, burrowed deep inside the week, so far in fact that we can neither turn around nor be entirely sure we\u2019ll find our way out.<\/p>\n

What better time for some gritty Texas blues with soul?<\/p>\n

The name T-Bone Walker<\/strong> should be a familiar one, by which I am not suggesting that you do know who he is, but rather that you should, on account of he is justly legendary in the lineage of the electric blues.<\/p>\n

Born in 1910 (as Aaron Thibeaux Walker<\/strong> in Linden, TX) he made his first record in 1929 for Columbia, billed as \u2018Oak Cliff T-Bone<\/strong>\u2019.<\/p>\n

It was in the early 1940s, after spending the previous 15 or so years as a working musician (crossing paths with both Blind Lemon Jefferson<\/strong> and Charlie Christian<\/strong>) , and experimenting with electric guitars that T-Bone returned to wax and, in the words of the great philosophers, blew that shit wide open.<\/p>\n

The T-Bone Walker of the 40s and 50s was in many ways the very model of the modern blues guitarist (though his sound was much more sophisticated than that, incorporating R&B and jazz) , that being a singing soloist. Walker wrote and recorded the original of one of the genre\u2019s greatest classics, \u2018Stormy Monday\u2019, as well as groundbreaking instrumentals like \u2018T-Bone Shuffle\u2019. One of the first great lead guitar soloists, Walker was also a showman supreme, introducing sounds and stage moves that would emerge years later in the repertoire of none other than Chuck Berry<\/strong>, and via osmosis, one James Marshall Hendrix<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

That said, by the 1960s, T-Bone was in the very same boat of many of the players of his era that being one full of holes and in immediate danger of sinking into the unforgiving brine of obscurity.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve addressed the issue of blues performers stirring some soul and funk into their cauldrons, and T-Bone Walker was no exception.<\/p>\n

By the mid-60s he had intersected with Huey P Meaux<\/strong>, and recorded at least an album\u2019s worth of material, and two singles for the Crazy Cajun\u2019s Jetstream label.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today, \u2018She\u2019s a Hit\u2019 (written by Meaux) was released in 1966 and sees Walker with his feet still planted firmly in the blues, yet managing to soul things up just enough. The song wouldn\u2019t sound out of place coming out of Doug Sahm\u2019s<\/strong> mouth at around the same time, and it manages to give T-Bone a little of the 1966 appeal without tossing out his past like so much moldy bread.<\/p>\n

The flip, \u2018T-Bone\u2019s Back\u2019 is a much more conventional blues shuffle.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the sounds, and if you have a taste for the blues, and don\u2019t know T-Bone\u2019s classic material, get yourself out and find some, as I can assure you that you will not regret it.<\/p>\n

See you on Friday.<\/p>\n

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