LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Originally released on the Blue Note label in 1975, this is a collection of T-Bone Walker’s finest recordings for the Imperial record label• First released as a double album, this collection is now available for the first time on a single CD• The recordings contained here show Walker in his prime and heyday; a Colossus bestriding the West Coast Blues world, sharp as a tack, all lean, fast fingers and hidalgo moustache• Guys, T-Bone is down. He tells it like it is, about romance with no finance, about working men and cheating women. Ladies, T-Bone is a mover. Watch what he can do with a guitar, playing it between his legs or behind his head. No need to draw you pictures. This is a man with imagination as well as muscles, not to mention a voice like a 10-year-old scotch. A smoochie-coochie man• Sleevenote by acclaimed blues scholar Pete Welding track listing: 1. I Got The Blues 2. Love Is Just A Gamble 3. Strollin’ With Bones 4. Life Is Too Short 5. Street Walking Woman 6. Railroad Station Blues 7. Cold Cold Feeling 8. Everytime 9. Get These Blues Off Me 10. The Hustle Is On 11. I Get So Weary 12. News For You Baby 13. The Sun Went Down 14. High Society 15. You Don’t Love Me 16. Party Girl 17. I Got The Blues Again 18. Tell Me What’s The Reason 19. Blues Is A Woman 20. You Don’t Understand 21. Through With Women 22. Evil Hearted Woman 23. Alimony Blues 24. I’m About To Lose My Mind 25. Baby You Broke My Heart 26. Got No Use For You 27. Bye Bye Baby 28. Blue Mood