''Good Feelin (stylised as ''...good feelin'...'') is an album by blues guitarist/vocalist

T-Bone Walker Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was an American blues musician, composer, songwriter and bandleader, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues, West Coast blues, and electric blues sounds. In 2018 ''R ...

recorded in Paris in 1968 and released by the

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label in 1969. The album received a Grammy for “Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording” in 1970, and it was reissued on CD by

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in 2007.Sunnyside Records: album details
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Reception

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reviewer arwulf arwulf stated: "Recorded in Paris during November 1968, ''Good Feelin was the album that rekindled public interest in the life and music of Aaron "T-Bone" Walker throughout Europe and even in some portions of the United States of America. ... With T-Bone's electric guitar sizzling in its own juice and the horns signifying together over soulful organ grooves and freshly ground basslines, all of this music is rich and powerful".

Track listing

All compositions by Aaron Walker except where noted # "Good Feelin (Walker, Robin Hemingway) – 1:31 # "

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) – 2:48 # "Woman You Must Be Crazy" – 6:17 # "Long Lost Lover" – 2:56 # "I Wonder Why" – 4:15 # "Vacation" – 3:05 # "Shake It Baby" – 3:37 # "Poontang" (Walker, Hemingway) –2:49 # "Reconsider" – 4:44 # "Sail On Little Girl" – 2:46 # "When I Grow Up" – 3:15 # "See You Next Time" (Walker, Hemingway) – 1:01

Personnel

– guitar, piano, vocals *unidentified musician – trumpet *Francis Cournet, Pierre Holassian – saxophone *

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– saxophone, piano, organ * Michel Sardaby – piano *Bernard Estardy – piano, organ, percussion *Slim Pezin – guitar *Jeannot Karl – bass *Lucien Dobat – drums *Earl Lett, Jean-Louis Proust – percussion

References

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