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This collection spans two decades of the Mississippi blues master's BBC output, from 1978 to 1998. The material is mostly recorded at gigs in London, Glasgow and Croydon, but a pair of live-in-the-studio session tracks are tagged on at the end, numbers which were originally laid down for Andy Kershaw's Radio 1 show. The King sound is eternal, and it's remarkable how little his formula has changed over this time span (and indeed before and after the selected years). The one development is that as age advances, B.B. has decelerated the set's pace, including longer onstage patter between numbers, and even over each song's vamping musical introduction.
The first five tracks are from a 1978 Hammersmith Odeon concert, in London. The slick revue style is already in place, but King's delivery remains gritty, its rawness intact. There's a roughness to his smoothness. It's a winning combination of rugged vocals and guitar meeting tight horn arrangements, and slick organ swirls. The pace on Caldonia is sprightly, punching with saxophone and trumpet solos. Then, King cuts to the exposed soulfulness of I Love To Live The Life, followed by a sudden descent into the coasting ballad softness of Night Life. Often, it's these slower tunes that carry greater weight, and the pace is kept down-and-spacious for The Thrill Is Gone.
Fourteen years on, and the band sound remains much the same, with a lengthy guitar introduction setting the scene for I Gotta Move Out Of This Neighbourhood, quieting down for an exposed B.B. vocal. Many of his songs tend to deal with woes brought on by womankind, even if peppered with some sly self-lacerating humour. The best of these is How Blue Can You Get?. The five tracks from Croydon's Fairfield Hall, in 1998, show how King had increased the verbals by this stage, but the disc closes out with its two concise Kershaw cuts, the band just playing it straight in the BBC's Maida Vale studio. Neither ropey nor exceptional, this collection inhabits the sturdy middle ground between these extremes. --Martin Longley
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1-Caldonia 2-I Love To Live The Life 3-Night Life 4-When It All Comes Down (I'll Still Be Around) 5-The Thrill Goes On 6-I Gotta Move Out Of This Neighbourhood 7-When Love Comes To Town 8-Let The Good Times Roll 9-Stormy Monday Blues 10-Ain't Nobody Home 11-Five Long Years 12-How Blue Can You Get? 13-Paying The Cost To Be The Boss 14-The Thrill Is Gone (1978-98 'Universal')(76:34/14) Aufnahmen, die bei verschiedenen britischen Konzerten für die BBC mitgeschnitten wurden
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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These recordings for the BBC are well worth investing in.From three seperate gigs with the most recent being 1998,plus a couple of studio recordings done at Maida Vale for Andy Kershaw's radio programme. A selection of BB classics live and with BBC recording quality has got to be a must.If your a fan of the bluesmaster you will already have these songs but its still worth getting because in concert the band are just so good and really tight BB in top form throughout and obviously enjoying every second and his credits and comments all add to the experience.His live version of U2's When Love Comes To Town is a highlight as is one of my personal favourites of his When It All Comes Down.Every song is a blues classic and when you think he was already in his seventies when the 1998 set was recorded he was and is still full of hard hitting rhythms and he speaks and plays a song he'd recorded with a very well known rap artist.BB has always kept in touch with what is happening in modern music and this CD prooves it.If you've never had a BB record then this is a fabulous place to begin and at such a great price.I saw BB on his final British tour two years back and he was awesome and still so full of life and energy where his music is concerned.Even today now in his 80's he's still keeping up a solid touring schedule in the USA.So get this,enjoy it treasure the music of the greatest bluesman alive and without doubt one of the greatest artistes of all time,at such a great value release you can't lose but you'll gain so much listening to this wonderful man doing what he does best playing his blues in concert.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this along with B.B. King & Friends - 80 after seeing him live at Birmingham recently. Although Friends 80 is good, this is definitely the better of the two - I was listening to it while driving to Nottingham yesterday and my heart was singing. It includes some of his chat and it's a wonderful souvenir of a live concert wherever that may have been.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This CD is almost like a BB King documentary in the way it spans 20 or 30 years of his career amd each moment is perfection. He plays Lucille like nobody else possibly could and is on top form for all tracks. BUY IT.
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Would loved to have been there.
I recently reviewed Eric Clapton's "just one night" live recording, and BB's "Live at the BBC" is on a par hence the 5 star rating. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. K. P. Skinner
Top notch blues from the best
BB King at his best. What more can I say? This is excellent music and a great purchase. The tracks are chosen from three decades' of performances, and this is a fine set of a blues... Read more
Published 7 months ago by CJ
BB GUN
This mans voice will shoot you down, then theres the guitar tone!
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Quality assured!!!!!!!
Published on 18 Nov 2009 by Mr. R. Peel
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