Take 5 With T-Bone Walker

Aaron 'T-Bone' Walker is sometimes referred to as the Father of Modern Blues Guitar. His distinctive style influenced practically electric blues guitarists from B.B. King to Fenton Robinson and Otis Rush. He was also an urbane singer in the vein of Leroy Carr, Nat King Cole, and Billy Eckstine.

For this week's Take 5, we start off with perhaps his most famous recording, "Call It Stormy Monday." This is the original recording and should not be confused with the Earl Hines Big Band recording "Stormy Monday Blues" that Billy Eckstine sang. That is a totally different song.

Next up is "T-Bone Shuffle," which has been covered and/or adapted by a number of blues artists.

One of my favorite T-Bone Walker performances is his rendition of "Evenin'.''

Next up is a jump blues, "The Hustle Is On."

Finally, we have a video of T-Bone performing with B.B. King.