Editing T-Bone Walker (section)

===1910–1941: early years===
Aaron Thibeaux Walker was born in Linden, Texas. His parents, Movelia Jimerson and Rance Walker, were both musicians. His stepfather, Marco Washington (a member of the Dallas String Band), taught him to play the guitar, [[ukulele]], [[banjo]], [[violin]], [[mandolin]], and piano.<ref name="allaboutjazz">{{cite web |url=http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/tbonewalker |title=Profile of T-Bone Walker |first=James |last=Nadal |work=[[All About Jazz]] |access-date=17 February 2015}}</ref>

Walker began his career as a teenager in [[Dallas]] in the 1920s. His mother and stepfather were musicians, and [[Blind Lemon Jefferson]], a family friend, sometimes came over for dinner.<ref name="russell"/> Walker left school at the age of 10, and by 15,<ref name="RS greatest guitarists"/> he was a professional performer on the blues circuit. Initially, he was Jefferson's protégé and would guide him around [[Deep Ellum, Dallas]] for his gigs.<ref name="allaboutjazz"/> In 1929, Walker made his recording debut with [[Columbia Records]], billed as Oak Cliff T-Bone, releasing the single "Wichita Falls Blues" backed with "Trinity River Blues". [[Oak Cliff]] is the community in which he lived at the time, and T-Bone is a corruption of his middle name. The pianist Douglas Fernell played accompaniment on the record.<ref name="AMG"/>

Walker married Vida Lee in 1935; the couple had three children.

By the age of 25, Walker was working in clubs on [[Central Avenue (Los Angeles)|Central Avenue]], in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], sometimes as the featured singer and as guitarist with [[Les Hite]]'s orchestra.<ref name="russell"/> In 1940 he recorded with Hite for the Varsity label, but he was featured only as a singer.<ref name="redsaun">{{cite web|author=Pruter, Robert; Campbell, Robert L. |url=http://campber.people.clemson.edu/rhumboogie.html |title=The Rhumboogie Label |access-date=2017-02-15}}</ref> He started playing electric guitar in about 1940.<ref name="AMG"/>