The great guitarist and Roy Plumb student, Lance Olson, passed on the video (above) and note (below) from the National Guitar Museum on T-Bone Walker (1910-1975), probably one of the last great blues guitar players to use a hollow-body, arch-top jazz guitar. T-bone, we miss you, RIP (I'm not sure why he got the name "T-bone" but his split below kind of looks like one)!
Aaron Thibeaux Walker was born on May 28, 1910 . . . 103 years ago. Nicknamed T-Bone, Walker learned the guitar at age 13, and recorded as early as 19. He was among the first blues players—if not the very first—to use the electric guitar as his instrument of choice. He claimed to have picked up an “electrified” guitar as early as 1935, making him one of the first electric guitarists in any genre. T-Bone put on a sensational live show, picking with this teeth and playing behind his head (something Jimi Hendrix would later do), doing splits and strutting (later done by Chuck Berry), and wrote one of the blues’ most enduring songs, “Stormy Monday” (or, as he called it "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday's Just As Bad).” Here’s an incredible live version of “Don’t Put Your Love On Me So Strong.” Enjoy.
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