T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Blues · 1959
Amp settings (as recorded)
The recording
The original recording of 'Call It Stormy Monday' was captured in 1947 by T-Bone Walker. The sessions are for defining the electrified West Coast blues sound. The recording utilized a live-to-tape process, capturing the immediate, clean, and percussive interaction between his Gibson ES-250 and the EH-150 vacuum tube amplifier, with minimal studio processing typical of the late 1940s analog era.
Tuning
StandardRecording Signal Chain · 2 items
ES-250
Gibson
Primary instrument
Hollow-body electric archtop with a signature Charlie Christian-style single-coil pickup.
EH-150
Gibson
Primary amplification
Classic tube amplifier known for clean, warm, and articulate jazz-blues tones.
Tone Characteristics
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