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"Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" (commonly referred to as "Stormy Monday") is a song written and recorded by American blues electric guitar pioneer T-Bone Walker. It is a slow twelve-bar blues performed in the West Coast blues-style that features Walker's smooth, plaintive vocal and distinctive guitar work.
"Stormy Monday Blues" is a jazz song first recorded in 1942 by Earl Hines and His Orchestra with Billy Eckstine on vocals. The song was a hit, reaching number one in Billboard magazine's " Harlem Hit Parade ", [ 1 ] and was Hines' only appearance in the charts.
Stormy Monday is an album by guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded in 1974 and released on the Fantasy Records label in 1978. [3] The album was released on CD combined with Sky Street (Fantasy, 1975) as Stormy Monday Blues in 2001.
[30] [31] "Stormy Monday" was a favorite live number of the Allman Brothers Band. The British rock band Jethro Tull covered Walker's "Stormy Monday" in 1968 for John Peel's "Top Gear". Eva Cassidy performed "Stormy Monday" on her 1996 Live at Blues Alley recording. According to Cleveland.com, Walker may have been the best R&B guitarist. He ...
[26] Thom Doucette takes a solo on blues harp, and by the end of the song, the band breaks out of the shuffle and "builds up to a dual-lead guitar, triplet-based crescendo." [26] "Stormy Monday" echoes the band's blues roots, and many guitar parts come from the version cut by Bobby "Blue" Bland in the early 1960s. [28]
Bland also recorded a hit version of T-Bone Walker's "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)", which was erroneously given the title of a different song, "Stormy Monday Blues". [ 3 ] His last record to reach number 1 on the R&B chart was " That's the Way Love Is ", in 1963, [ 21 ] but he continued to produce a consistent run of R&B ...
Stormy Monday Blues (1968) Funky Town (1968) Stormy Monday Blues is an album by blues guitarist/vocalist T-Bone Walker released by the BluesWay label in 1968. Reception
Stormy Monday" is the common shortened form of "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)", a blues standard by T-Bone Walker. Stormy Monday may also refer to: "Stormy Monday Blues", a 1942 jazz song by Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine; Stormy Monday (Lou Rawls album), 1962; Stormy Monday Blues, T-Bone Walker, 1968