T-Bone Walker - Every Day I Have the Blues - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Big Joe Turner, the legendary InchBoss of the Blues,Inch broke boundaries across jazz, blues, and early rock 'n' roll with his powerful, booming voice and unmatched charisma. From his early days with Pete Johnson in Kansas City to rocketing the charts with Atlantic Records, Turner's music fueled the rise of rock with tracks like InchShake Rattle and RollInch and InchHoney Hush.Inch This rare collection captures him at the peak of his powers in the late '60s and early '70s, delivering raw, extended renditions of classics that plunge you straight into the electrifying spirit of his live shows-pure blues magic that echoes through generations.

This double disc set is well titled, as it contains most of T-Bone's greatest recordings from his glory years. Disc One comes from his Capitol and Black & White period, and includes his best-known song, InchCall It Stormy Monday,Inch along with his other classics, backed by the cream of the Los Angeles players. Disc Two is the best of his Imperial sides, the sides that B. B. King has said were the recordings that were his greatest inspiration, mostly backed by the warm horn charts of Maxwell Davis, who later performed the same function for B. B. The remastering is awesome; this stuff has never sounded cleaner. You can hear every instrument, not easy on recordings from the late 40s-early 50s. The liner notes are literate and informative, and of generous length. Great photos inside too!

Spanning over twenty years from his post-war entrance as a singer with Les Hite's popular West Coast orchestra and his guitar-for-hire stint with Freddie Slack's swing band, through his early 1950s indie tag session work backing California bluesmen Mercy Dee Walton and Roy Hawkins to his European rediscovery in the early 1960s, using his guitar and seldom-heard piano skills to back his fellow headliners Memphis Slim, Sonny & Brownie, Shakey Jake and John Lee Hooker, as well as performing in his own right at the American Folk Blues Festival in 1962. As adjectives, influential and peerless do not even come close to describing Aaron Thibeaux Walker. This compilation of his rare work as a session musician, peppered with eponymous songs and instrumentals from his own oeuvre readily demonstrates why he was held in such high regard... and continues to be so.