T-Bone Walker News

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris in Washington. And back when Los Angeles was a hub for the blues, Central Avenue was the place to go.

Attempts to pin a single label on guitarist and singer Robert Cray are pointless.

Riley 'B.B.' King just celebrated his 74th birthday, but he's enjoying nearly as much exposure and acclaim now as at any time since he rocketed out of the blues underground and into the pop/rock mainstream with his late '60s signature tune 'The Thrill Is Gone.' King's slashing, shimmering guitar style, which integrates elements borrowed from Django ...

Inspired by blues legends like T-Bone Walker, Charlie Patton and Big Joe Turner, Duke's guitar work has seamlessly spanned the worlds of jazz, blues and swing since he founded the renowned big band, Roomful of Blues, in 1967.

B.B. King is 84 today. Many more B.B. Many more. King doesn't play chords or slide; instead, he bends individual strings till the notes seem to cry.

September 4, 2009 from KPLU - Americans have been observing Labor Day since 1894, through cycles of economic good times and bad times.

A t about the same that Mamie Smith was experiencing the stunning success she had with record sales of Crazy Blues , and Eck Robertson and Fiddlin' John Carson were being recognized for the first recordings of country music, Blind Lemon Jefferson was stirring up a blues storm down in Texas.

Blues fans can catch a rare opportunity to hear national acts and legendary blues and R&B musicians when Guitar Shorty, Blues Mafia and Blues Specialists take the stage for the next Roots Music concert Saturday, at Pioneer Museum in Fredericksburg.

Looking for a little alfresco entertainment? Tonight, from 7-8:30 p.m., The FrostKings, a 4-piece R&B, swing & blues band, will perform at Memorial Park in Little Falls.

Midnight Flyer is a weekly, two hour program featuring a wide variety of blues, interviews, biographies and stories about the blues.

Organizers of the fourth annual T-Bone Walker Blues Festival think the best way to honor the Linden-area native is to introduce new generations to the sounds he loved.

Music City Texas Theater in Linden is hosting the Fourth Annual T-Bone Walker Blues Fest - June 19-20. The festival is being presented by Don Henley and other key sponsors: Linden Economic Development Corporation, Sta-Dry Roofing, and the Cass County Performing Arts Council.

No one can dispute that there are those who paved the way for those here today. Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker and many other greats.

Bone Walker was born on May 28, 1910 and he passed away due to a stroke on March 15, 1975.

Blues guitar legend Aaron "T-Bone" Walker was born this day in 1910 in Linden, Texas.

REVIEW: GrA inne Duffy and her band with support from Walter Ego VENUE: Peel Centenary Centre, Saturday, April 11 REVIEW AND PICTURES: John Gregory SATURDAY'S launch for the Big Wheel Blues Festival was an exceptional treat indeed and was yet another example of what a talent the blues festival committee have for booking and bringing great artists ...