088 - T-Bone Walker: How an Oak Cliff Kid Changed the Blues
Before B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, there was T-Bone Walker. Born Aaron Thibeaux Walker, he grew up in Oak Cliff’s Tenth Street neighborhood, where he was surrounded by music and crossed paths with some of the blues’ earliest legends, including Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lead Belly.
We trace T-Bone’s journey from Tenth Street and the Bottoms to the stages of Los Angeles and around the world and come back home to explore what remains of the Oak Cliff that helped create him.
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