T-Bone Walker- Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong

Almost half a century ago, a stroke sent our Aaron Thibeaux Walker, also known as Oak Cliff T-Bone, to the Creator. He was one of the early pioneers of the electric guitar with a style that was more than unique, whether he played the guitar flat, behind his neck, or with his teeth—something that Jimi Hendrix knew all too well, as he would forever owe him.

He had Afro-Cherokee roots and in Oak Cliff County, south of Dallas in Texas, where his family moved, he had the opportunity to meet "Blind" Willie Johnson, from whom he learned the basics that he applied to his own way of playing the Blues.

At nineteen, he recorded his first 78 RPM, but it would be a dozen years before he broke through with the famous piece "Stormy Monday," of which there are several versions, not least that of the Allman Brothers Band—a piece that led Riley B. King (yes, that B.B.) to learn how to play the guitar, and nothing...