T-Bone Walker
BluesJazz BluesElectric Blues1940s

T-Bone Walker

Gibson ES-5 through a clean amplifier — Walker invented the modern electric blues guitar vocabulary in the 1940s. His smooth single-note runs and jazz-inflected phrasing influenced BB King directly.

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Gibson ES-5 through a clean amplifier — Walker invented the modern electric blues guitar vocabulary in the 1940s. His smooth single-note runs and jazz-inflected phrasing influenced BB King directly.

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