# Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad) guitar solo

> The guitar solo on Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad) by T-Bone Walker (1947) starts at about 1:18. From the album Non-album single.

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T-Bone Walker, 1947, from *Non-album single*. Solo by *T-Bone Walker*.

Walker's jazzy chord-based fills and single-note answers laid down the vocabulary nearly every electric blues player after him borrowed.

Call It Stormy Monday shows T-Bone Walker laying down the vocabulary nearly every electric blues guitarist after him would borrow. His playing combines jazzy chord-based fills with sharp single-note answers to his vocal lines. The tone is clean and warm, with a smooth, rounded attack. Walker's sophisticated harmony, drawn from jazz, gives the song a relaxed, urbane feel. Players from B.B. King onward have credited him as a foundational influence. Listen for the jazzy chords he uses in the fills, which give the song its distinctive harmonic color, and for the single-note phrases that answer his voice like a second singer.

Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad) by T-Bone Walker is featured in our Blues (#3) list. The solo is played by T-Bone Walker and the song was released in 1947.

## In our lists

- [The Greatest Solo of Every Year](https://greatestsolos.com/list/solo-of-every-year/) — #7
- [Beyond the Canon](https://greatestsolos.com/list/beyond-the-canon/) — #13
- [The 25 Greatest Blues Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/blues/) — #3
- [The Best T-Bone Walker Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/t-bone-walker-guitar-solos/) — #1
- [The Best Guitar Solos of 1947](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1947/) — #1
- [The Best Slow Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-slow-guitar-solos/) — #9

## Sources

- [Guitar Player: 50 Badass Blues Guitar Solos You Must Hear](https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/50-badass-blues-solos-you-must-hear)

### Who played the guitar solo on Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)?

T-Bone Walker played the solo on T-Bone Walker's Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad) (1947).

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