cover image Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story

Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story

Helen Oakley Dance. Da Capo Press, $13.95 (285pp) ISBN 978-0-306-80413-7

Aaron ``T-Bone'' Walker, who died in 1975, was widely regarded as the father of modern guitar blues, whose sound influenced much of today's popular music. ``In a book that well may become a basic cultural document, Dance has organized interviews with Walker, his family, friends and associates into a smooth-flowing narrative account of this important musical innovator, '' praised PW. Photos. (Sept.)