Everyday I Have the Blues (T-Bone Walker album)

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Everyday I Have the Blues
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Studio album by
Released1969 (1969)
Genre Blues
Length31:39
Label BluesTime
Producer Bob Thiele
T-Bone Walker chronology
Good Feelin'
(1969)
Everyday I Have the Blues
(1969)
Super Black Blues
(1969)

Everyday I Have the Blues is a studio album by American electric blues guitar pioneer T-Bone Walker. Originally released in 1969, it was his second solo album of the year and sandwiched between appearances on two blues compilation albums. [1] [ unreliable source? ]

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Critical reception

Professional ratings
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine, in a review for AllMusic, gave the album three out of five stars. [2] He writes:

Every Day I Have the Blues is more about the sounds and feel of 1969 [as Walker] amiably plays with the burbling organ, slightly too bawdy horns, and too loose rhythms. What's fun here is that very distant disconnect, how Walker doesn't fully embrace his new surroundings but is game anyway, playing up a storm on otherwise undistinguished instrumentals. [2]

Track listing

Taken from album liner notes. [3]

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Everyday I Have the Blues"Peter Chapman a.k.a. Memphis Slim 4:21
2."Vietnam" Bob Thiele 5:03
3."Shake it Baby" John Lee Hooker 3:05
4."Cold, Cold Feeling" Jessie Mae Robinson 3:14
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."T-Bone Blues Special" T-Bone Walker 8:49
2."For B.B. King" Louis Shelton 3:47
3."Sail On"Walker3:21

Personnel

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "T-Bone Walker: Every Day I Have the Blues – Review". AllMusic . Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  3. "T-Bone Walker: Every Day I Have The Blues". Discogs. Retrieved May 1, 2019.