Sold Date: June 25, 2015
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Used 1969 Flying Dutchman BluesTime White Label Promo Stereo Release of Bandleader/Composer/Guitar Master/Pioneering Blues Vocalist Aaron "T-Bone" Walker Entitled Everyday I Have the Blues, Produced by Bob Thiele, Engineered by Jack Hunt, Remix Engineer Is Gene Thompson, Original Recording Session on August 18 in 1969 - Two songs into ,  starts singing a slow-crawling 12-bar blues about "Vietnam," a pretty good indication that this 1969 LP belongs to its era. That's not the only way this record evokes its time. Released on 's newly launched Bluestime imprint, this is redolent of every production trend of the late '60s: topical songs compete for space with fuzz guitar, tracks that stretch out, way out, as both  and his supporting band get a lot of space to solo. Compared to other LPs from Bluestime -- including  by  and 's , both reissued in 2014 simultaneously with this  record --  is more about the sounds and feel of 1969, which makes sense.  belonged to the '50s and  was an amiable session man but  was a frontman ready to ride the wave of fashion, hopefully getting toward the charts but, more realistically, garnering just enough attention to get back into the studio one more time.  is filled with his signature single-note runs -- he was never less than a consummate guitarist -- and he amiably plays with the burbling organ, slightly too bawdy horns, and too loose rhythms. What's fun here is that very distant disconnect, how  doesn't fully embrace his new surroundings but is game anyway, playing up a storm on otherwise undistinguished instrumentals like "T-Bone Blues Special" and launching a cut called "For B.B. King" that is inexplicably based on ' "Lonely Avenue" and finds  playing in his own style, never once attempting 's runs. Then again, much of the pleasure of this record is hearing  stay true to himself, no matter what his band does. He's happy to groove, he'll weather the fashions but he won't change his style, and that makes for an enjoyable listen." - Spectacular Personnel for the Sextet Features Legendary Composer T-Bone Walker on Guitar and Vocals, the Talented Tom Scott on Tenor Sax, Louie Shelton on Additional Guitar, the Brilliant Artie Butler on Piano & Organ, Max Bennett on Bass and Paul Humphrey on Drums! - Selections on Side One Are the Memphis Slim Title Track, the Bob Thiele Penned Vietnam, John Lee Hooker's Shake It Baby & the Jesse Mae Robinson Classic Cold Cold Feeling - Songs for Side Two Are Original T-Bone Walker Composition T-Bone Blues Special, Louie Shelton's for B.B. King and the T-Bone Walker Penned Sail on - Used Copy, Cover Very Good++ with Seam very Slightly Split at Bottom, Side One Has some Light Surface Wear & One very Light Mark, Side Two Has some Light Surface Wear and a Scuff on "Sail on" - Stereo Recording, Flying Dutchman White Label Promotional Album with Stamp in Middle, Product Code BTS-9004 - California Residents Add 9.75% Sales Tax - International S & H Extra -