Stormy Monday Blues (album)

Stormy Monday Blues is an album by blues guitarist/vocalist T-Bone Walker released by the BluesWay label in 1968.

Stormy Monday Blues
Studio album by
Released1968 (1968)
RecordedMay 24 & 25, 1967
StudioLos Angeles
GenreBlues
Length29:45
LabelBluesWay
ProducerBob Thiele
T-Bone Walker chronology
The Truth
(1967)
Stormy Monday Blues
(1968)
Funky Town
(1968)

Reception

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Professional ratings
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AllMusic     [1]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings    [2]

AllMusic reviewer Steve Leggett stated: "The high level of creativity in play here isn't obvious on a cursory listen, since a lot of the tracks favor the same sort of midtempo blues shuffle, but a closer listen reveals a stunning guitarist who plays the blues with a jazzman's soul, and while Walker isn't a flashy singer, he gets the job done with enough conviction that you can feel the country dust settling in behind his urbane delivery, and when he cuts loose a little on guitar, the sparks fly with elegant tension. The highlight here, of course, is Walker's umpteenth version of "Stormy Monday Blues," a track he originally recorded way back in 1947, giving the world a bona fide blues classic, and if he revisits it again here, that's fine".[1]

Track listing

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All compositions by T-Bone Walker except where noted

  1. "I'm Gonna Stop This Nite Life" (Grover McDaniel) – 3:25
  2. "Little Girl, Don't You Know" (McDaniel) – 4:45
  3. "Every Night I Have to Cry" (McDaniel) – 2:45
  4. "I'm Still in Love with You" – 3:29
  5. "Cold Hearted Woman" (McDaniel) – 2:30
  6. "Treat Me So Down Low" – 2:35
  7. "Stormy Monday" – 2:20
  8. "Confusion Blues" (McDaniel) – 2:50
  9. "I Gotta Break Baby" – 2:25
  10. "Flower Blues" – 2:41

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ a b Leggett, Steve. T-Bone Walker: Stormy Monday Blues: The Essential Collection – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  2. ^ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 679. ISBN 978-0-140-51384-4.