Not well known but ought to be - check out Rock Awhile with that happening distorted guitar tone, and it was like 1948! Falling somewhere between Louis Jordan/T-Bone and Chuck Berry on the expressway to rock'n'roll, Goree Carter was a pioneer.
Postwar, electric blues guitar in Texas all derives from T-Bone Walker, says conventional wisdom, and when you hear a great stylist like Pee Wee Crayton soloing in that jazzy, single-string tradition, it seems like an immutable law. But there were Texas guitarists who weren't influenced by Walker, and most who were brought enough of their own thing to T-Bone's to keep it interesting. Even today, the tradition not only lives on, but continues to evolve.… more »
