Well yes, this front porch scene is all very contrived – why is that woman so intent on her knitting that she never looks at the musicians? – but still, this is a fine acoustic blues from T-Bone Walker, with Shakey Jake Harris on vocal:
Aimed, presumably, at a white coffee-house and folk-club crowd brought up on Pete Seeger, with a calming vision of nice black folks getting together for some polite domestic entertainment. T-Bone was better known of course for his pioneering work on the more urban, threatening electric guitar – previously, live from Poplar Town Hall, 1966, and Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong. Stormy Monday, from 1947, was perhaps his best-known track.
Chuck Berry named Walker and Louis Jordan as his main influences. B.B. King cited hearing Walker's recording of "Stormy Monday" as his inspiration for getting an electric guitar. Walker was admired by Jimi Hendrix, who imitated Walker's trick of playing the guitar with his teeth.
I like the way T-Bone here looks with a paternal eye on the young vocalist.
If you're wondering what comes next, from the state of Louisiana…"what we call a Saturday night get-together"…it's Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. The woman in the polka-dot dress even puts down her knitting to get up and dance.
Mick Hartley 
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