T-Bone Walker - The Essential T-Bone Walker Collection (CD)

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, "Call It Stormy Monday," 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!

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Mean Old World
2. I Got a Break Baby
3. Bobby Sox Baby
4. I'm Gonna Find My Baby
5. It's a Low Down Dirty Deal
6. T-Bone Jumps Again
7. Call It Stormy Monday
8. She's My Old Time Used to Be
9. Midnight Blues
10. Long Skirt Baby Blues
11. I'm Waiting for You Call
12. Hypin' Woman Blues
13. Description Blues
14. T-Bone Shuffle
15. Prison Blues
16. I Want a Little Girl
17. I'm Still in Love with You
18. West Side Baby

Disc: 2

1. Strollin' with Bone
2. Glamour Girl
3. You Don't Love Me
4. The Hustle Is on
5. Life Is Too Short
6. Alimony Blues
7. You Don't Understand
8. I Get So Weary
9. Tell Me What's the Reason
10. Cold Cold Feeling
11. News for My Baby
12. Street Walking Woman
13. Here in the Dark
14. Blue Mood
15. Party Girl
16. Love Is Just a Gamble
17. High Society
18. In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)