Pianos were naturally loud if you beat on it hard enough. But guitars had a limit to their natural loudness and it was hard to get heard above most other instruments. So, the next thing about Rock N Roll was being able to crank up the volume on the guitar. Before Amps were widely and (relatively) cheaply available, aside from a few exceptions (such as Eddie Lang or Lonnie Johnson notably), the guitar was relegated to forming part of the rhythm section. Two guys that were in on the whole amping up of your guitar sound early on were T. Bone Walker and Charlie Christian. Today we will get a healthy anti-oxidizing dose of T-Bone Walker. T-Bone was the first to record electric blues. He got into amplification because of Charlie Christian. He was the original link between rural blues and contemporary blues. He was a nasty guitarist who was smooth as a babies bottom but still had some dirty to 'em, some grit. He came out of the Dallas blues scene that was such a fountain of inspiration for blues music. Enjoy!
T-Bone Walker - "The Hustle Is On"
He was mostly known for slow, burnin' blues numbers. Take a look and a listen.
Peace
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so smooth...just the kind of sounds to get you through the day
T Bone is solid. I love them licks. I am wondering if you would do anything on artists that influenced the into alternative and punk blues movement...izzle like John Spencer or The Black Keys.
PS The Celts play Dirk and the MAvs tonight. I will miss most of it as I am headed to see Sam James...but it should be good.
The Black Keys are great. Those guys are directly influenced by classic rock like The Stones and Jimi Hendrix in my opinion, which makes them indirectly related to folks like T-Bone Walker. I know the Black Keys are blues aficionados who have done pilgrimages to all the meccas like Memphis along the highway down to New
Orleans. My series now is intended to be stuff that pioneered what began to be referred to as rock n roll. I have only posted a few examples of the blues because they played such a big part in the development of rock music. I will check out the game, should be a good one.
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