Category: T-Bone Walker

T-Bone Walker, the Texas-born electric blues pioneer, is buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California, at Capistrano Court.

T-Bone Walker won an amateur contest and earned a solo spot with Cab Calloway's band in Houston, launching his professional music career.

In 1929, T-Bone Walker made his recording debut in Dallas as Oak Cliff T-Bone, cutting Wichita Falls Blues for Columbia Records.

T-Bone Walker guided Blind Lemon Jefferson through Deep Ellum, Dallas, absorbing blues traditions that shaped his pioneering guitar style.

T-Bone Walker grew up in Oak Cliff, Dallas, earning his famous Oak Cliff T-Bone stage name in this historic neighborhood.

T-Bone Walker was born in Linden, Texas in 1910. Discover the Cass County birthplace of the pioneering electric blues guitarist in East Texas.