CULTURETECHLENST-Bone Walker
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Combined Graph record U-07247 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6018.
Aaron Thibeaux 'T-Bone' Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was the first important electric-guitar soloist in the blues and one of the most influential guitarists in the idiom's history. Born in Linden, Texas, and raised in Dallas by musical parents, he guided the blind singer Blind Lemon Jefferson around the city as a boy, first recorded as Oak Cliff T-Bone in 1929, and befriended the young Charlie Christian. Settling in California in 1934, he developed a fluent single-note electric style, phrasing horn-like lines with swinging ease behind his own smooth singing. His 1947 recording 'Call It Stormy Monday' became an enduring blues standard, followed by records such as 'T-Bone Shuffle' and 'Bobby Sox Blues.' Singers and guitarists from B.B. King to Chuck Berry studied him, and his stagecraft — playing behind his back and with his teeth — entered the rock vocabulary. His album Good Feelin' won a Grammy Award, and he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
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Aaron Thibeaux 'T-Bone' Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was the first important electric-guitar soloist in the blues and one of the most influential guitarists in the idiom's history. Born in Linden, Texas, and raised in Dallas by musical parents, he guided the blind singer Blind Lemon Jefferson around the city as a boy, first recorded as Oak Cliff T-Bone in 1929, and befriended the young Charlie Christian.
The record
- Also known as: Aaron Thibeaux Walker, Oak Cliff T-Bone
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 10; third Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no T-Bone Walker entity in the live graph at 3,683 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-6018 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 2 packet ordered reserve, position 13 of 25 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #1119). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — National blues record; Texas origin and California career, with a documented 1942–45 Chicago chapter (Rhumboogie club recordings) noted in secondary sources but not relied on for the description. Vital status: DECEASED — verified: Britannica gives death March 16, 1975, in Los Angeles; Wikipedia corroborates death at home in Los Angeles in March 1975. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): CONFLICT SHOWN on the Grammy date: Britannica dates the album Good Feelin' to 1969 and credits it with the Grammy for best ethnic or traditional recording, while Wikipedia's account gives the award year as 1970 for the same album — the album and award are agreed; only the year attribution differs between the two sources, and both are shown. MEDIA: photo HELD (Named candidate: Britannica / press photograph of T-Bone Walker performing with his Gibson archtop (rights unverified — PHOTO-001 record required, HELD). named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6018-t-bone-walker.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No Short in the Shorts Link Map has T-Bone Walker as its subject. No video attached.) | audio = HELD (No audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)
Sources
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, T-Bone Walker biography — born May 28, 1910, Linden, Texas; died March 16, 1975, Los Angeles; first important electric guitar soloist in blues; 1947 'Call It Stormy Monday'; Blues Hall of Fame 1980 and Rock Hall 1987 — https://www.britannica.com/biography/T-Bone-Walker (primary source · build store)
- Wikipedia, T-Bone Walker — Dallas upbringing, 1929 Columbia debut as Oak Cliff T-Bone, influence on B.B. King and Chuck Berry, death following a stroke in March 1975 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bone_Walker (build store)
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