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Genre: Blues Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-OCT-1998

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Glamour Girl
2. Strollin' with Bones
3. Sun Went Down
4. You Don't Love Me
5. Travelin' Blues
6. Hustle Is On [78 RPM Version]
7. Baby Broke My Heart [78 RPM Version]
8. Evil Hearted Woman [Alternate Take]
9. I Walked Away
10. No Reason
11. Look Me in the Eye [78 RPM Version]
12. Too Lazy [Alternate Take]
13. Alimony Blues
14. Life Is Too Short
15. You Don't Understand (Alibi)
16. Welcome Blues (Say Pretty Baby)
17. I Get So Weary
18. You Just Wanted to Use Me
19. Tell Me What's the Reason
20. I'm About to Lose My Mind
21. Cold, Cold Feeling
22. News for You Baby
23. Get These Blues Off Me
24. I Got the Blues Again
25. Through with Women
26. Street Walking Woman

Disc 2:

1. Blues Is a Woman
2. I Got the Blues
3. Here in the Dark
4. Blue Mood
5. Every Time
6. I Miss You Baby
7. Lollie Lou
8. Party Girl
9. Love Is Just a Gamble
10. High Society
11. Long Distance Blues
12. Got No Use for You
13. I'm Still in Love with You
14. Railroad Station Blues
15. Vida Lee
16. My Baby Is Now on My Mind
17. Doin' Time
18. Bye Bye Baby
19. When the Sun Goes Down
20. Pony Tail
21. Wanderin' Heart
22. I'll Always Be in Love with You
23. I'll Understand
24. Hard Way
25. Teen Age Baby
26. Struggling Blues

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30537 in Music
• Brand: WALKER,T-BONE
• Released on: 1991-09-04
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .39 pounds

Amazon.com
A founding father of electric blues in general and Texas blues in particular, guitarist T-Bone Walker influenced countless blues players and, by extension, countless rock & rollers as well. The Complete Imperial Recordings date from the early to mid-1950s, when the idea of electric blues was really taking hold, and the two-disc set is a wealth of classic songs exquisitely performed. While definitely blues, there's more difference between this and the acoustic blues that predated Walker than amplification can account for; there's jazz and swing mixed in as well, as on tracks like "I Walked Away" and "Strollin' with Bone," and something of that feel has remained in electric blues ever since. From B.B. King to Buddy Guy to Stevie Ray Vaughan and beyond, Walker's influence is felt in the blues up through the present day. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews

Fine collection of Walker's Imperial sides
Not quite as seminal as "The Complete Capitol/Black & White Recordings", this is nervetheless an excellent collection of T-Bone Walker's 52 sides recorded for Lew Chudd's Imperial Records.

Unlike the Capitol and Black & White-waxings, this double-disc set features almost no alternate takes, just the masters and a couple of 78 versions (the only exceptions being a few alternates that have been chosen over the original masters).
And there is plenty of great stuff here...no "Mean Old World" or "Stormy Monday", sure, but a lot of excellent songs like "Glamour Girl", "The Hustle Is On", "Tell Me What's The Reason", "I'm About To Lose My Mind", "Cold, Cold Feeling," and the classic instrumental "Strollin' With Bones".

This music is not meant to be listened to in one long sitting, obviously...even lead guitar innovator Walker's smoky, jazz-flavoured blues isn't quite varied enough for that, and if you're just looking for a place to start, you should go for Rhino's "Blues Masters: The Very Best Of T-Bone Walker", or the excellent "T-Bone Blues" album from Atlantic.
But these 136 minutes of music is a very fine collection for the fan who wants more, and a great tribute to the most influential electric guitar player of all time, the idiom's first true lead guitarist, and still one of its best.

I have nothing but pure admiration for "Bone..."
The late "T-Bone" Walker, a pioneering mastre of the electric blues guitar and a close friend/ certainly unremitting influence on my Uncle "Pee Wee" Crayton another "axe-handler" during the immediate postwar era. However, avoiding comparisons, Uncle "Pee Wee" Crayton brought enough "heat" and daring innovation to his playing to avoid being labeled as a mere "T-Bone" copy-"kat."

As a young teen in the early 70's, I was extremely fortunate to experience the greatness of his "vibes" up close and personal...on many occasions, I would soak-up like a sponge and weld to memory those rare meetings when the "Texas 3" (1) Uncle "Pee Wee" (2) "T-Bone" Walker and (3) "Big Joe" Turner (another pioneering mastre blues singer, even though he was born in Kansas City, MO., he sang like he was from the state of Texas...) would get together at "Pee Wee's" house in West Los Angeles, California, and rehearse all day on Saturdays or Sunday afternoons up until the late evenings, just before going to there "gig" at the Perisan Room (a defunct legendary popular "night-spot" during the 1960's - late '80's located on the southwest corner of La Brea Avenue & Washington Blvd., of which now sits a U.S. Postal Station). These Complete Imperial Recordings: 1950-1954 are nothing but short from shear enjoyment fo' da soul...buy the CD you won't be disappointed!

Those were exhilarating times to say the least!

--"Big Dave" Burleigh, 'AmeriCanadian' Record Producre.

you will be jumpin' and swinging in no time
T-Bone sweet T-Bone - he is the founder of modern blues - and I think he does not get enough credit for his influence on jazz guitar. Kenny Burrell, in fact, has mentioned that T-Bone was one of his early influences. He certainly has a sweet tone, and he has a nice voice too. Pair this with a hot horn section, and this cd is a steal at 10 bucks. T-Bone is a classic.