Various Artists – T-Bone Walker In Session, 1940-1962

• Having already sampled the best of T-Bone Walker’s late 1940s recordings (T-Bone Jumps Again - JASMCD3149) and 1950s recordings (Get These Blues Off Me - JASMCD3051), Jasmine now turns the spotlight on the more obscure session work undertaken by the great guitarist when his career allowed.
• 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 label 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.

Track Listing

1. Les Hite & His Orchestra (Vocal By T-Bone Walker) - T-BONE BLUES
2. Freddie Slack & His Orchestra Featuring T-Bone Walker - RIFFETTE
3. T-Bone Walker With Marl Young’s Orchestra - T-BONE BOOGIE
4. T-Bone Walker - T-BONE JUMPS AGAIN
5. T-Bone Walker - T-BONE SHUFFLE
6. Mercy Dee - HOMELY BABY
7. Mercy Dee - EMPTY LIFE
8. Mercy Dee - PLEASE UNDERSTAND
9. Mercy Dee - BIRD BRAIN BABY
10. T-Bone Walker - STROLLIN’ WITH BONES
11. Roy Hawkins & His Orchestra - HIGHWAY 59
12. Roy Hawkins & His Orchestra - WOULD YOU
13. Roy Hawkins & His Orchestra - DOIN’ ALL RIGHT
14. Roy Hawkins & His Orchestra - THE THRILL HUNT
15. T-Bone Walker - T-BONE BLUES SPECIAL
16. T-Bone Walker - TWO BONES AND A PICK
17. Memphis Slim - WE’RE GONNA ROCK
18. T-Bone Walker - I WANNA SEE MY BABY
19. T-Bone Walker - I’M IN LOVE
20. Sonny Terry - I’M CRAZY ‘BOUT YOU BABY
21. John Lee Hooker - LET’S MAKE IT BABY
22. John Lee Hooker - SHAKE IT BABY
23. Shakey Jake - HEY BABY
24. Shakey Jake - LOVE MY BABY
25. Memphis Slim - BYE BYE BABY