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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, B.B. King made a series of albums in Los Angeles using rock-world ringers and session players as ABC sought to replicate the chart success of "The Thrill Is Gone". For the most part, these recordings are just dispassionate filler, but this album is an exception. Produced by Bill Szymczyk and featuring guitarist Joe Walsh, pianists Carole King and Leon Russell, and drummer Russ Kunkel among its players, B.B. delivers minor classics in the stirring "King's Special" and the hard blues "Until I'm Dead and Cold". He also takes his only recorded turn at piano, vamping briefly through a flippant croon he calls "Nobody Loves Me But My Mother (And She Could Be Jiving Too)". --Ted Drozdowski
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By "barnabyjb"
Format:Audio CD
I've been led to understand that this album was recorded as part of a plan to 'cash in' on the chart success if 'The Thrill is Gone', but it is one of those wonders of popular music that manages to transcend any genre or classification.
From the tongue in cheek introductiion to the hairs-on-back-of-neck-raising finale, the flawless production somehow allows the soul/jazz backing to showcase King's guitar playing better than any of the more traditional recordings. The guitar playng on 'King's Special' is, I would argue, some of the greatest 'feel' playing ever committed to record. If you like what Peter Green did in his Fleetwood Mac days, you will absolutely love this album.
There is also a faintly surreal quality to the album: You know it's B B king, because it says so on the cover; it sounds like him playing and singing... but somehow, for anyone who has seen him live or is a fan of his other albums, you really feel as if you are hearing what he might have been if things had turned out differently.
If you are a fan of B B king but have not heard this album, I promise that you will not regret buying it.
{And great cover art to boot...}
From the tongue in cheek introductiion to the hairs-on-back-of-neck-raising finale, the flawless production somehow allows the soul/jazz backing to showcase King's guitar playing better than any of the more traditional recordings. The guitar playng on 'King's Special' is, I would argue, some of the greatest 'feel' playing ever committed to record. If you like what Peter Green did in his Fleetwood Mac days, you will absolutely love this album.
There is also a faintly surreal quality to the album: You know it's B B king, because it says so on the cover; it sounds like him playing and singing... but somehow, for anyone who has seen him live or is a fan of his other albums, you really feel as if you are hearing what he might have been if things had turned out differently.
If you are a fan of B B king but have not heard this album, I promise that you will not regret buying it.
{And great cover art to boot...}
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The first reason why I bought this album (on Vinyl) was the album cover. It's superb. The second reason, after owning Live at the Regal, was the desire to have more BB King. The music on this album starts off with a wonderful, if not jokey rendition of a standard blues song, with Blues Boy playing some nice tasteful piano. It goes on to some pop/blues songs that have a sublime feeling. I love this album!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Alister King
Format:Audio CD
Ive never been a blue purist. I find one man banging on about the delta with an acoustic a bit bland to be honest. I like my blues sonically and rhythmically interesting. This nails it. It starts very trad and then just drops in on the one for track 2 and maintains its relaxed funky jammy brilliance throughtout.
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Nobody loves me but my mother...
After years without having the LP I eventually got round to picking up a CD copy of what is, without doubt, the one B. B. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Jackie P
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Wonderful!
Had this on vinyl years ago and was very pleased to get the cd - it sounded just as good as I remembered it. Read more
Published on 24 April 2011 by undine
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Not everyone will like this album, not even every blues fan. But it does show the breadth of his skills- this man really can play (and sing) anything. Read more
Published on 15 April 2011 by tamandua
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