CALL IT STORMY MONDAY (BUT TUESDAY IS JUST AS BAD)

Created on 20/04/2009
Latest update on 15/03/2024

Artist: T-Bone Walker
Author: T-Bone Walker
Label: Black & White
Year: 1947

Top 5 R&B, hallmark for electric blues guitar playing; produced by Ralph Bass. Re-recorded for Atlantic in '59.

Covers:

1958:

Pat Boone ['Drinking Coca Cola' instead of 'drinking wine']

1960:

Nancy Wilson

1960:

Jimmy Witherspoon

1962:

Bobby Bland [top 5 R&B as Stormy Monday Blues for Duke and crediting Hines/Crowder/Eckstine, the authors of Stormy Monday Blues (see there)]

1962:

Lou Rawls [title track lp]

1963:

Jack McDuff

1964:

John Hammond Jr.

1964:

Graham Bond Organisation

1964:

Alexis Korner Blues Incorporated

1965:

Little Joe Cook [alias Chris Farlowe on Sue; also crediting the wrong persons]

1965:

Them [as Stormy Monday, crediting T-Bone all right]

1965:

Nightshift [with Jeff Beck, pre Yardbirds]

1966:

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton [outtake first lp]

1966:

Junior Wells

1966:

Lou Rawls

1968:

Jethro Tull

1969:

Beefeaters

1969:

Marlena Shaw

1970:

Frigid Pink

1970:

Mountain [on Atlanta International Pop Festival; 20 minute version]

1970:

Freddie King

1971:

Allman Brothers Band [at first introduced as "an old Bobby Bland song", later crediting T-Bone Walker]

1974:

Big Bill [as Stoose Blues]

1977:

Roomful Of Blues

1978:

Albert King

1981:

Maggie Bell

1983:

Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan

1986:

Boogie Boy

1993:

B.B. King [with Albert Collins and the Memphis Horns]

1996:

Rita Coolidge

1997:

Van Broussard [wrong credits]

2008:

Mick Hucknall [as Stormy Monday Blues and just like Bobby Bland with wrong credits]

2011:

Blodwyn Pig

2024:

Slash [with Beth Hart]

Not to be confused (like Bobby Bland's version was and countless versions with him) with Stormy Monday Blues (see there).

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
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