T-Bone Walker Stormy Monday in Boston 1971

[@MH-fb5kr]

My favorite blues artist… so damn good!

[@rooseveltdavis9559]

The T-Man himself. Mr. T-Bone Walker. RIP brother T, you're were and still is the greatest of time.

[@BLacKCatB0ne]

The greatest. The father of electric blues guitar.

[@countryboy6767]

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[@dakarikaysen1898]

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[@williamgreeson8387]

T Bones frustration with these guys, is palpable.

[@race5219]

WOW after listing to the real Stormy Monday any by els would be very hard very hard I mean very hard this sound and his voice on this song it really and truely hit the SOUL

[@catdaddy3302]

This is the year I saw him in Boulder, Colorado. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@jonnehayesjr.9299]

Awesome 😎

[@riffdigger2133]

By the early 1960s, Walker's career had slowed down, in spite of an energetic performance at the American Folk Blues Festival in 1962 with the pianist Memphis Slim and the prolific writer and musician Willie Dixon, among others.[1] However, several critically acclaimed albums followed, such as I Want a Little Girl (recorded for Delmark Records in 1968). Walker recorded in his last years, from 1968 to 1975, for Robin Hemingway's music publishing company, Jitney Jane Songs. He won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording in 1970 for Good Feelin', while signed with Polydor Records, produced by Hemingway,[4] followed by another album produced by Hemingway, Fly Walker Airlines, released in 1972.[21] Walker's career began to wind down after he suffered a stroke in 1974.[1] He died at his home in Los Angeles of bronchial pneumonia following another stroke in March 1975, at the age of 64.[1][22] He influenced generations of musicians.[23][24]

[@jaybeerod]

Qué lástima que nadie grabara/filmara un show completo de este maestro y pionero, esencial para entender la guitarra eléctrica. Es un indicio más del desprecio del establishment musical y los medios norteamericanos por lo mejor de su herencia cultural, por desgracia.

[@yuromacviva3695]

ive got a pee wee crayton album of early 50s stuff and in the liner notes there is a photo of t bone, pee and rs rankin playing in front of 20000 people, they did the stadium thing in the early 50s sort of a fake guitar battle thing .would have loved to of seen a show, had a big swing band too.liked the piano at the end.

[@pixielf]

Priceless video! Thanks, Bob!

[@halbertking2683]

My heros heros hero.

[@Maxum97SeaDoo91]

Like this video ... Thanks for posting!

[@riffdigger2133]

Just wow. The real deal.

[@konstantan2008]

awesome

[@thomasrsunday8945]

This is fu-ing dope

[@robertoaraujo9834]

Paz y descanso al gran T Bone.....

[@moviemagg]

T-Bone Walker should have played at Woodstock. Now that would have really been something.

[@JazzCompAlliance]

Summer of Woodstock, a week or two before, T-Bone DID play at the Ann ARbor blues festival (I was there, it was awesome....a festival of all blues, B.B. King, Freddie King, Son House, Muddy Waters, Fred McDowell and many more.

[@jimtakahashi4638]

Nah, Woodstock was fundamentally for white rock musicians and fans. The real deal blues musicians like T-bone would definitely have been out of place.

[@moviemagg]

So then Richie Havens was really a white man......Wow, that just blows my mind....

[@jimtakahashi4638]

@@moviemagg : Was Richie Havens a real deal blues musician, huh? Did you know Hendrix was also a black man, huh? You also stupidly missed the word "fundamentally", or do you even know what it means, huh?

[@moviemagg]

@@jimtakahashi4638 You said that Woodstock was fundamentally for white rock musicians and fans. So in essence you're saying that black people could not have appreciated any of the music from that event. That sounds rather antagonistic toward any people of color. Any and all genres of music are and can be appreciated by people of any race or creed and has been so since the start of civilization. If you knew anything about Richie Havens you'd know that he played R&B, Soul and Folk. And of course I know all about Hendrix. In a lot of ways T-Bone Walker was more Rock and Roll then he was Blues. So he would have done just fine at Woodstock. I've got everything he ever recorded and a lot of his songs would have just blown everybody away. The guy could really rock. Incredible guitarist! He influenced Chuck Berry and BB King more then any other artist. As a matter of fact, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins and BB King should have played at Woodstock aswell just to name a few. And again, Yea, Richie Havens was a real deal blues musician if he was in the mood. I saw him in concert back in the mid. 80s and he was awesome. So maybe you should rephrase you're original comment because it sounds kind of cruel in reference to color.

[@東京キッド-k9v]

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[@Bluesrainbluesrainbow]

super!

[@aaronbrown0417]

Everybody is playing too loud over him he's having to project more than he wants

[@deanshot7701]

YES! Thank you for posting this!

[@bennettbernerproject3289]

Was this whole show filmed? I believe I was at that show. Did not remember it being filmed but a sax player I went with got up and jammed with him that night.

[@antoniosantorini9355]

Can't hear guitar ...did he play or mime ?

[@lilaclancer]

Thanks Bob! Did he play piano?

[@bobvidpix]

yes - and at the end of this tune

[@ivanlipton8564]

Bob do you know where this show was?

[@bobvidpix]

listed on the video

[@RustedTelevisione]

The video says “Boston 1971”. Anyone know the actual venue this gig took place. Thanks for sharing. This is great blues history.

[@robinsandow9875]

One of the true greats. Too bad the bassist and drummer seem to think they're just warming up for their solos or sumpin'. And the other guitarist doesn't have enough sense to just "lay out" -- although he probably thought that's what he was doing.

[@BluzIsaFeelin]

I agree about the bass and drums, but I think it’s clear Walker appreciated “the guitarist”, Paul Pena. A name you’ll be richer for knowing :-) “ My search also yielded this rare, wobbly footage of T-Bone in 1971 at the outset of a period in which he worked with a backup group led by the guitarist and singer Paul Pena. Then a local legend, Pena was a Cape Verdean who grew up in Hyannis and lived in Worcester for several years in the '60s and early '70s. I wrote about him a few years ago in this blog about Bonnie Raitt; Pena appeared on her first album, recorded a classic of his own in 1972, and composed the Steve Miller mega-hit, "Jet Airliner." One wonders if Miller met Pena through T-Bone? Miller's father was a doctor who treated Walker, and beginning at age 11, young Steve became the beneficiary of guitar lessons, and a career path, from T-Bone. Forty years after this performance of Walker's classic "(Call It) Stormy Monday" was filmed at the Jazz Workshop in Boston, Pena was the subject of the documentary Genghis Blues, about his odyssey into the culture of Tuvan throat singing. Here he's seated behind T-Bone playing tasty fills and sporting a billowy Afro. Mid-way through the performance, Pena assumes the lead while T-Bone goes to the piano. "Pena was that good," says a friend of T-Bone's in Stormy Monday, where Dance writes, "The only member of the group who struck T-Bone as outstanding was the blind guitarist, Paul Pena...[who] was the kind of challenge needed to inspire T-Bone." Walker himself said, "If I don't have a guy like that alongside, I might as well give up. When Pena [moved] to the West Coast [to pursue his own solo career], I was lost." - Tom Reney New England Public Media

[@robertspencer8931]

I love T-Bone , but he looks tired or pissed off in this video.

[@alternativeliving4211]

Is that hendrix in the back lol jk