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T-Bone Walker
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American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
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- Play Like T-Bone Walker
- T-Bone Walker
- T-Bone Walker Guitar Play-Along
- The T-Bone Walker Collection
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- 339,254
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- 2,575,068
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T-Bone Walker (Aaron Thibeaux Walker, May 28, 1910, Linden, Texas — March 16, 1975, Los Angeles, California) was an American blues guitarist, singer, pianist and songwriter who was one of the most important pioneers of the electric guitar. His electric guitar solos were among the first heard on modern blues recordings and helped set a standard that is still followed. Walker was born in Linden, Texas of African and Cherokee descent. Walker's parents, Movelia Jimerson and Rance Walker, were both
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Walker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Linden
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- drum kit
- Record label
- Duke Records
- Image
- T-Bone Walker 1972.jpg
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- place of burial
- Inglewood Park Cemetery
- start of work period
- 1928-00-00
- date of birth
- 1910-05-28
- date of death
- 1975-03-16
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- Commons category
- T-Bone Walker
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- T-Bone Walker
- birth name
- Aaron Thibeaux Walker
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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