T-Bone Walker, Very Rare (1973)



T-Bone Walker, Very Rare (1973)

Friday's lunch record is by the great bluesman T-Bone Walker. This is a double album and todays listen is sides one & four. This album on Reprise Records produced by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller. It is treated to a myriad of guest performers.  Some of the musicians are : Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), David 'Fathead' Newman (tenor sax), Larry Carlton (guitar), Wilton Felder (bass), Gerry Mulligan (baritone sax), Zoot Sims (tenor sax), James Booker (keyboards), Paul Humphrey (drums), Charles Brown (piano), Sweet Inspirations (back-up vocals), Herbie Mann (flute), and many more. They cover many of his classic blues songs he's written. The YouTube sample song is " Every Day I Have The Blues" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kysbe4_7uPA&list=PLQ4zwFxCQxeXIodBQyPCK6yoBZTJxns7k&index=9 . . . bucko