All Night Long
Joe Williams / Muddy Waters / T-Bone Walker Lyrics

@SDPickups

Charlie Christian was one of TBone's friends and also invented licks and ways of playing against chords that everyone plays in our times as well.@@stevenkimsey7039

@TheDavidfallon

He certainly didn't invent them, but he definitely made many of Lonnie Johnson's riffs his own.

@DJrockinXXL

"When I heard T-Bone Walker play the electric guitar I had to have one" -by B.B. King "All the things people see me do on stage I got from T-Bone Walker". - Chuck Berry "When T-Bone Walker came, I was into that. That was the sound I was looking for" - Albert King nothing more to say

@courylanders5154

Chuck Berry said Walker was huge influence.I'm sure Bo Diddly, Elvis, and Buddy Holly would second the notion that Walker was their dude.Again,we need show respect to the master's.Give it up to T-Bone Walker.

@javiceres

Hard to believe that Chuck B. would be so generous praying and giving credit to someone else.

@courylanders5154

@@javiceres Nah, I heard Chuck Berry,say T- Bone Walker, Charlie Christian and Ray Charles as his Heroes.

@javiceres

Coury Landers That’s great to know

@TheHeater90

Chuck very often talked about his influences when interviewed. Aside from T-Bone Walker, Carl Hogan and Charlie Christian being his main guitar influences, he also often mentions Louis Jordan for his lyrics, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra for the feeling in their vocals and their diction, and Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and all those big band guys for what he called their "tremendous beats". He also said Muddy Waters and Elmore James were some of his favorites as well. Direct quote: "That was the basis of my music, if you can call it my music, but there's nothing new under the sun." - Chuck Berry

@laylahofficial

Man T-Bone was way ahead of his time! That jazz-blues sound is delicious and sounds so damn good!

@wilmer89

T-bone, t-crazy

@redrock1963

I don't know what I want to comment on most -
T-Bones truly great playing
That mind blowing ES-5
The great back up band
The really impressive camera work
The beautiful lush black and white footage
The sea of "whites only" faces in the audience
or possibly the "sit on the couch and noodle" angle of guitar that T-Bone has perfected here.
I love the whole thing.

@mackattack8627

I Sat And Finally Listen To These Songs And Thought My Dad Use To Sing These To Me Then I Found Out My Dad Composed A Few Of His Songs Like Hey Pretty Lady Now At 54 I,m Blessed To Have A Daddy Who Had Me At Age 60 My Mom Was 30 Years Younger Than He Nevertheless My Father Died In 2006 At Age 98 Born In Texas Died In Los Angeles Thanks Dear Father For Composing Classic Blue's Music For T-Bone Walker- (Rip) Argusties Mcglothin 💪✊✌️

@JulesBadMF

Goodness. His timing is utter perfection. The back phrasing, voicing and his raw soul vocal is MASTERFUL!

@altdelet3778

The most important guitarist of the 20th Century, the creator of the modern guitar solo

@loukasiordanis1582

along with Lonnie Johnson(b. 1899)

@harriairaksinen5694

How about Charlie Christian?

@mrstanbmw

Facts

@woodystemms3799

Most of all ... he was the primary guitar influence for Chuck Berry ... and we all know where that went!

@newnoggin2

Hyperbol. Great, but the most important???

@GordiansKnotHere

That Gibson ES-5N and T-Bone's playing is absolutely amazing!
EDIT: This whole performance is just beautiful.

@JoseyWales93

I'm 30 and i like it too. T-Bone is the baddest dude that ever lived, playing such a big guitar in such a strange position with Dizzy Gillespie behind proves it. The guy was an influence on Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix and BB King.

@brandongay1315

The charisma and soul in this performance brings me back time and time again

@1mespud

The father of electric blues. Clean, honest, and no distortion. I have been to the mountain top...

@Tethysmeer

Of all the influences in my blues guitar "career" over the past 30 years, tbone is always the reference point.

@mechcavandy986

One of the most influential guitarists ever! I’m fortunate to have seen him in Boulder, Colorado in 1972. 💙🎸

@monsahani

Listening him play the guitar and sing the blues is a priviledge but being able to watch him is pure bliss....

@Sordok

"Woman, You Must Be Crazy" explains exactly my situation right now. I feel like it's the best blues song ever!

@timjackson5680

I just love T Bones playing, and singing. He truly was a unique performer. His influence is still heard today.

@End-Result

He is without doubt one of the most underrated, unknown, and most important musicians of the modern world *

@brushcountry6361

Unknown?

@generaljj577

Hes been called one of the most important musicians of the 20th century

@Harpdrive

yes

@miguelhernandezherrera6792

Yes, t bone Walker si unknown and is the father of the electric blues

@kimhunter7763

Super talented and very influential. If you play blues guitar, you play T-Bone Walker.

@Streetezz

I thought Jimi Hendrix was the most original guitarist of all time until I heard T-Bone Walker and Elmore James.

@nikith69

Robert Johnson

@randallmiller8238

Hendrix is eh' T bone and Elmore had it!

@brushcountry6361

Lightning Hopkins as well...

@etclay00

T-Bone was the first great showman. Gave the blues a whole new dimension....

@DiamondDavev2

Plant and Page in one man.

@moviemagg

Truly one of the greatest guitar players in all of music history.

@xolanin.6257

Imagine. When I woke up today, this is the 1st thing I listened to. What a great combo indeed. The Greatest.

@prettycolors2

Man he's just looks like he's having so much fun with his guitar... I guess that's how you make great music...

@markjohnson9485

There is no one like T-Bone Walker. No one...

@alanfranzen1029

This is a great jazz master's line up, Teddy Wilson played with Basie and Billie Holiday. Louie Bellson is a great drummer, notice the double bass drum that Ginger Baker and Keith Moon brought into rock. T-Bone Walker has some great albums, check out T-Bone blues with Barney Kessel on guitar with him, esp 2 Bones and a pick. This is jump blues at its best with a horn section to die for... it just doesn't get any better unless we go back to Goodman and Charlie Christian with those Basie alumni on the horns with Teddy on piano and Gene Krupa on the drum kit...

@leightons5738

Thank you for sharing some history. Three Cheers for you, sir!

@mwiluokolo260

And Dizzy on trumpet

@dantimber

Agree. 'Modern' blues with all the shredding completely misses the point. It's like playing scales fast with no rhyme or reason. I love jazz and blues with soul but would sooner listen to Eddie Van Halen than Joe Bonamassa.

@alanfranzen1029

@@dantimber Bonamassa plays loud, and thats about it.. Robert Cray is the opposite, what touch... We need a new T-Bone ripping off those killer single note lines...

@dantimber

@@alanfranzen1029 I agree. There’s something missing with this crew. They lack authenticity, emotion. Nothing connects for me. Speed and volume are mistaken for talent.

I’d suggest jazz/pop crossovers Gary Clark Jr and John Mayer are vastly more talented when playing blues. I’m not familiar with him but guitarist Chris Buck recently blew me away on YouTube with ‘Dreams to Remember’. Every member of Spyra Gyra is in another class. There are others.

@michaelmazurek7445

"here he is, one of the great blues singers . . . " Oh, and he also plays the guitar.

@Mr22thou

I thot that was funny too.

@marcot117

Well, he is a better singer

@TheHeater90

Debatable. But there was a period between 1947 to 1955 or so, where practically every Blues guitarist who played in standard tuning wanted to sound like T-Bone on guitar... Lowell Fulson, Pee Wee Crayton, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, B.B. King, Clarence Garlow, Pete "Guitar" Lewis, Stick McGee, Goree Carter, Guitar Slim, were all T-Bone guitar-slingers in those days. T-Bone's licks even found their way onto the solos of the likes of Les Paul, Chet Atkins and others of that ilk. The mere fact that he is thee main influence on both Chuck Berry and B.B. King means he may be the most influential electric guitarist in history. If he's not, he's certainly WAY up there, matched or beaten only by people like Chuck, B.B., Charlie Christian, Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Wes Montgomery, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, and that might be about it. Remember I'm talking about sheer influentiality, not just technical skill.

@gitfiddlejimagain

@@TheHeater90 Lets add Goree Carter, magic decipl of Mr T

@haloskater24

gitfiddlejimagain jimmy Nolen too

@gearoiddom

Very distinctive style. Been admiring it for decades. What a pioneer! How come there isn't more talk about him?

@davedoris5883

He's in the rock and roll hall of fame.

@dontgoout1434

Black is why

@trxncxt1281

t bone walker plays my fav guitar solos in this whole wide world

@indigenoid5383

This man was a Master who became One with his guitar.

@marvindonaldson4339

the best in blues to ever done it hands down bo

@prathameshbhambure

I'd heard about T-Bone Walker some years ago but never tried looking into his music. A couple of days ago I felt the urge to give Classics In Jazz 1954 (his famous record) a shot. I instantly fell in love with him. I don't think I've ever heard anybody play like this apart from the guys who are inspired by T-Bone himself.
This is the first time I've seen his performance. Let me tell you that holding a guitar the way T-Bone does is so uncomfortable but he'd obviously mastered it. Then he plays in a unique fashion, too. He's definitely one of the biggest revelations to me if not the biggest.
25th Aug '23

@latouselatrec

What a national treasure.

@ambmainman

He's one of the best blues men of all time!

@peterboffey1

What artistry and showmanship! Half-a-century and LIVELY!

@scottingham65

T BONE is an ultimate in the study of all styles of music...U name it ...He got it!

@jonnehayesjr.9299

I noticed that as well.

@kathehun6034

Just cant stop smileing wow no wonder Tbone was BB favorit !!!

@GDTRFBBB

One of the greats! Certainly a top 10 of all time

@gfblack5307

+GDTRFBBB And yet you can look at list after list of the "greatest guitarists" and T Bone isn't there!  I just saw one that had David effin Bowie  but not T Bone. What an overlooked talent.

@Johnsmith-uh9gl

+Gf Black What list would that be not maybe Rolling Stone surely not Guitar Player

@richluft194

I found out about T Bone from an article in Guitar Player magazine back in the 70s. Those top 10 lists can't be taken too seriously. But thanks to that article I found some really good music by T Bone.

@naweedproductions5729

this is what a real authentic world class musician sounds like, music that heals the soul fam 💯🙏🏼

@mantas68

I once saw a Stevie Ray Vaughn interview where he literally confessed his love for T-Bone's playing. He had his guitar plugged & he played some of the sweetest T-Bone licks I ever heard. He said that he can't play T-Bones licks unless he sets guitar out flat like T-Bone. The position of the guitar seems essential here. I thank Stevie Ray for introducing me to T-Bone's music. It's a more sophisticated form of the blues. Like having a side dish of caviar with a slab of BBQ ribs - LOL!

@EastmanD

if he indeed said it then there's no reason to use the term "literally"...seems to be a word that people very often use inappropriately these days...not sure how that got started...

@vincentmadden6112

@@EastmanD okay grandma

@EastmanD

@@vincentmadden6112 you're welcome grandson

@freakbennett2263

Æll Yã cãts, Hê is The best, nex tô Robert Johnson, love watch Him play, jùs såyîn !😎🥚😎!

@walterredaelli7507

I totally agree with you.

@robertcel

T-Bone, Master of the Electric Blues. He wrote the book on modern electric blues guitar. Great vocalist and showman as well.

@transtremm

Clark Terry with just a mouthpiece??? Now that's musical genius.

@djtdub1

+transtremm No it is not genius. I don't know what prompted Clark Terry to play only his mouthpiece but comes across as patronizing and condescending.(imho). Maybe he was trying to imitate a harmonica. His horn would've sounded so much better.

@vaibanez17

+transtremm I agree that it is pretty sweet. It is apparent he's trying to do a harmonica thing, I think it was pretty inventive, at least out of context.

@berkeleyfleming8516

Playing his mouthpiece was something Clark Terry did on occasion, and always to good effect. He was not the type of person to be patronizing and condescending in intention.

@mqblues

I remember actor Montgomery Clift in movie scene from "From Here to Eternity" playing mouthpiece in barracks beer bar. Probably done in the day more often than people realize.

@robertmarks2805

That's Dizzy, not Clark Terry. Dizzy loved to clown!

@fordsrestorations970

God Alnighty !, I did not know these Blues programs existed I am so very thankful somebody had the brains to record these Master artist of Blues and rhythm and blues jazz

@user-kv7qr1hq3f

Where I'm from Calgary. This man is known and played every weekend. My radio station CKUA Play him all the time.

@HaroldBrownUncleHB

I remember Checking Him Out At Jeffty's Cocktail Lounge on Avalon and El Segundo Back in the Early 1960's. This is where I learned How To Do the Double Shuffle On Drums ... Brings Chills to Me "Harold Ray Brown

@judithmcdonald2838

Really

@wridley110

T-Bone showed me had to play the drums when I was a boy.. RIP T-Bone!!!!

@brianhackert8513

details please

@altonwilliams7117

From right down the road from me in Linden Texas. Most people don’t know what an originator and influence he was on all who came along after him. 🎶

@JW-xn3gk

Me too Alton.... not too far anyway....

@KasAngel

I'm 17 just enjoying the blues.

@1mespud

Clean, honest. no distortion. I have been to the mountain top...

@lbowsk

YouTube might just be the best thing about the interwebz.

@bobareeniobobareenio2935

AND: what a great sound he’s getting out of that guitar . Beautiful tone . .

@andrewnicholls1171

This is such a wonderful clip of the mighty T Bone in action! Thank you so much for posting it!

@eddiemachetti6862

This is not just fine music at work here. It’s a spiritual magic that is dancing through the cables and making its way through those amplifiers. 🔥

@heinoverbeek

I saw them in 1966 in Scheveningen, Kurhaus, Holland.

@Jacobus.J

legendarisch

@jabjones2165

Hein Overbeek: Had to be a beautiful time.

@capjoartist1200

YES,THAT's the music ,the music of the heart

@brahmburgers

very cool. I've been gigging in blues bands for decades. T-Bone has got what it takes!

@kdfan

Clark Terry plays with such a feeling of joy on everything! Killing!

@briandan1184

T-Bone had an amazing mastery of his craft. That guitar truly is just an extension of his soul. So smooth...cuts so deep...the sound both attacks and hugs you at the same time. Just....amazing. Thank you Mr. Walker. 👍

@larryesser9024

The more I hear T-Bone Walker, the more I like him. Solid and beautiful music.

@ericnewman3352

All these modern jazz musicians, mixed with T-Bone's earthy blues playing. Yet, it works because there is so much talent present ! The Blues and Jazz are brothers.

@jimit6398

This video is an absolute treasure! Those reserved Brits just got hit between eyes with raw American Blues by the master T-Bone Walker.

@1950jimbei

Virtuosity (incl. improvisation), songwriting and voice; on each of these essential criteria for musicality T-Bone scores just about highest.

@sunsparkle8443

A lot of people don't know just how brilliant he was. He was so in the pocket, it's nuts.

@trevorohara4070

What a fantastic talent a banger of a tune. I can feel that blues sweet sounds.

@jonasnilsson1559

I was borned this year, so at least for that I should have a thumb up. Thank you people, thank you.

@muratunal494

Thanks Reacher for me explore Blues music again

@boerborn

T bone Walker is simply the best! a wonderful preformance. thanks for posting this film clip.

@swavekbu4959

Now I see why B.B. spoke so highly of T-bone. Amazing.

@IamP3ngu1n

1966....Both T Bone and Hendrix were on the planet Earth.

@jessiebeaugard6174

This is talent and technology will never replace it

@ryanreeves8931

This video makes me love T-bone even more. The sparkle in his eyes when he is playing projects the joy in his heart and the love of his craft!!!! Top 10 guitarists of all time!!!

@charpentierniko4613

Thanks for sharing this iiiriedible live of one originator! Big upppp !!! and blessing

@1mespud

Mr. T Bone Walker. Good, original, clean, non distorted, no gimmicks blues guitar only as it was meant to be. Note his guitar of choice: A Gibson ES 5 with three single coiled dog ear pickups. He's was before B.B. King and a major influence. He did more than his part to help tame mankind with is gift and talent and may GOD bless his legacy...

@craigcaver4051

1mespud T-bone was actually very jazzy at times for a bluesman. He had a good since of complex harmony again for a mainly blues oriented style.

@jeffyoung6257

What a lovely statement..... I agree!

@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out

you're both exactly right. original clean blues/jazz guitar in an era when many RnB musicians crossed the imaginary lines between jazz and blues.
T bone straddled that line perfectly with taste, those (for me) essential 7 9 chord extensions and enough straight forward down home blues feeling to not alienate less sophisticated audiences.

@ethan1456

marktarmannpiano exactly.. those 7/9 chord extensions, on top of using diminished chords and other harmonies for 12 bar blues... for me that little bit of melodic complexity makes him my favorite, over the other guys.

@7884golfguru

I’m a bit late but absolutely correct

@RICHIEBSQUI

One of the great blues singers with Dizzy Gillespie and JATP can only mean one thing - MUSICAL EXCELLENCE.

@gerrymackayjazzguitarist3261

Great music. Exciting music. Gerry. Mackay

@jgthom

T bone walker playing blues with Diz, Clark Terry and Teddy Wilson....this is pretty much as good as it gets musically

@MoaSize

NOBODY gets it across like T-Bone. Thanks for making it available.

@axehound3718

Accidentally invented popular rock and roll vis a vis Chuck!
Never got the damn credit!
The real king 👑

@ElectricFreakyBlues

Man, that's how the blues is done. Those little "T-Bone" bends are the shit!

@jaeztheone

..tears in my eyes....saw him Newcastle City Hall '67/68 ? He MC'd the show Jimmy Reed, Sonny n Brownie, Joe Williams etc. usual suspects...maybe Eddie Taylor with Jimmy....maybe Hooker, Curtis Jones etc......TB was immaculate in Tux......played some lovely piano .........never played guitar all night....This video shows me what I missed...but at least I saw him.....King of the 9th ! ....thanks..

@CharlesDavidPollock

T-Bone is the man!

@hugostahlbaum8714

Mr.T.Bone Walker, Godfather of the Blues, unforgotten, RIP, Sir..

@franktaconelli9095

What a great video of an incredible performance

@altonwilliams7117

They have a T- Bone Walker Festival here every year in East Texas.

@bigeman25

T-Bone, brilliant guitar player and blues singer extraordinary. Ain't too much more you can say.

@ianlewis9973

One of the single greatest blues feels ever

@Mayflower357

WOW, WHAT AN INCREDIBLE LINE-UP!!! Oh my goodness, I nearly died and went to jazzy blues heaven when I saw the faces of the musicians on the stage, WHOA!!! This performance was so ridiculously good I believe I may unwillingly dream about it for weeks on end (I have already viewed it four times and counting!).  Thank you *so much* xraymusic for this *golden* upload that I am sure many people (including myself) will forever cherish seeing! XX 

@ACOUSTIC_4LOVE

T Bone. Said to be likely one of the first if not the 1st to use an Electric Guitar. I believe on His earliest recordings he went by name ‘ Oak Cliff T-Bone’ from Texas I believe. Truly one of the most influential early Electric Bluesman.

@VisionaryofMirage

What a fabulous guy!

This is how hot T-Bone Walker was back in the day. Image having these great jazz artists backing you up.  Damn Clark Terry playing just his mouth piece. The best of Blues meets the best of Jazz.

@billvill61

Insane! A trumpet player, playing a mouthpiece. Now I've seen it all.

@tejastiger61

A million thank yous  X-RAY...  WoW ..!  The man himself.....

Check the flame in the maple of the ax T-Bone is chopping with.. incredible ..WoW.!

@scentlessapprentice88

This legend and Charlie Christian are the originals. The og's of rockabilly, rock and roll, blues rock fusion, and alternative. In some capacity or fashion, each and every player you enjoy listening to after these two legends, were influenced and you can hear it in the music.

@markkennard861

Wow... 66 was my first year of school. Why am i only finding these musicians now.

@mrmiles725

"I'm in Love with a woman, but she's not in Love with me"... Mannnnnnn, look here...

@nickb3250

mrmiles725 Nothing more true in this world than the blues

@VirtualWoodshed

mrmiles725 preach!!!

@735vinnie

@mmiles725.... "I'm in Love with a woman, but she's not in Love with me" - If that ain't the blues.... I cannot think what else there is. :-)

@TheGrouchDnD

Ain't that some shit

@stephensmith799

Worst of feelings...

@VomitPinata

Holy smokes! That was hot! That band is REDICULOUS! And T-bone looks like he's having a blast. Awesome post. Thank you!

@jalapablocrypto

T-Bone was a genius. Just listen to that sound. Perfection.

@eriksg7

The Father of Electric Blues

@mississippibluestravellers5440

T-Bone walker was one of the greats. Thanks for posting this. That's an all star line up behind him; some of the greatest names in jazz at that time and all time.

@crimson1d

this probably is my favourite video in the whole youtube collection.

@theherbpuffer

Proud Texas here; We have some of the best musicians ever!

@jonnehayesjr.9299

True

@riobabic8960

What a superb band.

@philipsarkol9572

From the first note he sang and played on his guitar ..I immediately jumped up...this is IT...how it should sound like...T-Bone sure was and Is one original...
Thx...