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Full name, Aaron Thibeaux Walker; born May 28, 1910, in Linden, Tex.; son of Rance Walker (a musician) and Movelia Jimerson (a musician); married Vida Lee in 1935; children: three; died of pneumonia March 16, 1975.

Addresses: Record company-- Fantasy/Prestige/Milestone, 10th and Parker, Berkeley, CA 94710.

Arguably the first musician to employ an electric guitar, T-Bone Walker is without doubt the one who laid the foundation for what is known as modern urban blues.

Walker's sophisticated playing in the 1930s and 1940s bridged the gap between jazz and blues and created a style which has influenced every electric guitarist since. "He has a touch that nobody has been able to duplicate," stated B.B.

King in Guitar Player. "I knew I just had to go out and get an electric guitar." In Sheldon Harris's Blues Who's Who a list of artists Walker has influenced contains nearly every major blues (and quite a few rock) guitarists in the last four decades.

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