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          Walker was born in in Texas.!

          Born Aaron Thibeaux Walker, he was not just a musician; he was a songwriter and a bandleader, whose innovative style helped to birth the jump blues and West.

        1. T-Bone Walker, born in in Linden, Texas, beat him to it by more than a few years.
        2. Walker was born in in Texas.
        3. The first full and authoritative biography of an American—indeed a world-wide—musical and cultural legend.
        4. Born in , six years before the other great pioneer of the electric guitar, Charlie Christian, Walker shared with Christian the rich.

          5. Full name, Aaron Thibeaux Walker; born May 28, , in Linden, Tex.; son of Rance Walker (a musician) and Movelia Jimerson (a musician); married Vida Lee in ; children: three; died of pneumonia March 16, Addresses: Record company-- Fantasy/Prestige/Milestone, 10th and Parker, Berkeley, CA

          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 s and s 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.

          Walker's meal ticket was his ability to play single string, h