WRFG’s Route 66 celebrates a time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended together, often
in the same song. Our primary focus is on the music of the Jump Blues Era of the 1940s which blended into the early part of the Rock & Roll & R&B Era of the 1950s
and on how those styles and artists have evolved over the years. We also bring you
jazz from the era along with the occasional page from the Great American Songbook.
Listen to Route 66 Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 A.M. Eastern (U.S.) on
Atlanta’s WRFG 89.3FM. Your independent community radio station is
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Today, we celebrate the 115th anniversary of T-Bone Walker’s birth.
Aaron Thibeaux Walker was born just west of the Louisiana state line
in Lindon, Texas on May 28, 1910. Walker came from a musical family
and got his start as a professional musician in Dallas where,
as a teenager, he played with Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Walker was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues,
West Coast blues, and electric blues sounds.
In 2018 Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 67 on its list of
“The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”
T-BONE WALKER RESOURCES
Biography @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Blues Foundation
The Story of Stormy Monday @ wikipedia.org
We also tip our hat to Atlanta blues legend “Weepin”” Tommy Brown.
Born Thomas A. Brown in Lumkin, Georgia, on May 27, 1931,
Brown scores hits in the early 1950s with the Griffin Brothers.
Brown later became a fixture on the Atlanta blues scene until
shortly before his death in 2016.
TOMMY BROWN RESOURCES
Biography @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
Biography @ The Blues Foundation
Obituary @ American Blues Scene
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2025
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Bongo Blues The Dee Williams Sextet Savoy Records 1949
Hoppin’
Tommy Brown w/ the Griffin Brothers
Dot Records 1951
I Know Ruth Brown Atlantic Records 1951
I’ll Be Gone Fats Domino Imperial Records 1951
T-Bone Jumps Again
Johnny Big Stone & the Blues Workers
DOWNBEAT RECORDS PRESENTS… Plays T-Bone Walker 2020
Rock Me To Sleep Helen Humes Capitol Records 1950
Don’t Push, Don’t Pull
Planet D Nonet w/ Dr. Professor Leonard King
Tribute to Joe Williams 2025
Every Day I Have the Blues
Count Basie & Joe Williams
Count Basie Swings & Joe Williams Sings 1956
Rubber Bounce Sonny Boy Williamson I Decca Records 1943
Evenin’
Los Angeles Side Hustle
Los Angeles Side Hustle 2025
Bobby Sox Blues
T‐Bone Walker
Black & White Records 1947
T-Bone Boogie
Adrianna Marie & her Roomful Of All-Stars
Kingdom Of Swing 2017
Old Kidney Stew Is Fine
Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson w/ T-Bone Walker & Jay McShann
Kidney Stew Is Fine 1969
Insect Ball Big Jay McNeely Imperial Recods 1951
Got My Mo-Jo Working Ann Cole Baton Records 1956
I Just Want To Make Love To You
Lou Rawls & Junior Wells
Portrait Of The Blues 1993
Hey Ba Ba Re Bop Lionel Hampton Decca Records 1945
Gospel Train Marie Knight Decca Records 1949
Riffette
Freddie Slack & His Orchestra w/ T-Bone Walker
Capitol Records 1943
West Side Baby
Dinah Washington
Mercury Records 1948
T-Bone Shuffle
T-Bone Walker
Capitol Records 1947
Moon Dog Boogie Freddie Mitchell Derby Records 1952
By The Light Of The Silvery Moon Little Richard Little Richard 1958
Street Lights Little Esther Federal Records 1953
Black Night Charles Brown Aladdin Records 1951
Reet, Petite & Gone Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1947
Hot House Dizzy Gillespie w/Charlie Parker Guild Records 1945
Let Me Go Home Whiskey Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1952
Bloodshot Eyes Wynonie Harris King Records 1951
Tell Me What’s the Reason
Duke Robillard
A Tribute To T-Bone Walker 2004
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)
T-Bone Walker
Black & White Records 1947
Weepin’ & Cryin’
Tommy Brown & The Griffin Brothers
Regent Records 1951
(sign off)
Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
PODCAST PLAYLIST
Bongo Blues – The Dee Williams Sextet
Hoppin’ – Tommy Brown w/ the Griffin Brothers
I Know – Ruth Brown
I’ll Be Gone – Fats Domino
T-Bone Jumps Again – Johnny Big Stone & the Blues Workers
Evenin’ – Los Angeles Side Hustle
Bobby Sox Blues – T‐Bone Walker
T-Bone Boogie – Adrianna Marie & her Roomful Of All-Stars
Old Kidney Stew Is Fine – Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson w/ T-Bone Walker
Wichita Falls Blues – Oak Cliff T-Bone
Riffette – Freddie Slack & His Orchestra w/ T-Bone Walker
West Side Baby – Dinah Washington
T-Bone Shuffle – T-Bone Walker
Tell Me What’s the Reason – Duke Robillard
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad) – T-Bone Walker
Weepin’ & Cryin’ – Tommy Brown & The Griffin Brothers
Tag (You’re It) – Little Charlie & The Nightcats
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