B.B. King - His Best: The Electric B.B. King (1968) [24-192]

 His Best — The Electric B.B. King is a 1968 album by B.B. King. Two songs from the album, "The B.B. Jones" and "You Put It on Me", are from the motion picture soundtrack for the film For Love of Ivy.

Recorded March 3, 1965 - August 5, 1968

• B.B. King, vocals, guitar
• Maya Angelou, vocals
• Billy Butler, guitar
• Lawrence Burdine, alto saxophone
• Vernon Slater, tenor saxophone
• Johnny Board, tenor saxophone
• Bobby Forte, tenor saxophone
• Barney Hubert, baritone saxophone
• McKinley Johnson, trumpet
• Carl Adams, trumpet
• Henry Boozier, trumpet
• Hobart Dotson, trumpet
• John Browning, trumpet
• Pluma Davis, trombone
• Duke Jethro, organ, keyboards
• Sonny Freeman, drums

 

B.B. King, Freddy King, Albert King - Kings Of The Blues Guitar (3 CD, 2014/FLAC)

 

Three disc set - 20 tracks each from three Kings of Blues guitar -

 B.B. King, Freddy King and Albert King.

Classic original recordings from three truly legendary artists.

 

 

B.B. King - Ladies and Gentleman... Mr. B.B. King [10 CD, 2012]

 

B.B. King is one of America's few, long-standing musical treasures whose stature has grown to an unassailable, international level.  His warm, down-home vocal style, his distinctive, talking blues guitar playing, and his songs that sing of love's joys and hardships Sweet Sixteen, How Blue Can You Get?, Help The Poor, The Thrill Is Gone and countless others are all indelibly imprinted elements in the modern musical heritage. Celebrating his 50th Anniversary signing to ABC-Paramount Records in 1962 we bring you this multi-format career retrospective. Leading the way with a slick 10 CD, 194 track collection chronicling his entire career from his first recordings in 1949 through to his most recent studio album.

B.B. King Orchestra - Live At Midem 1983 (2020/FLAC)

 B.B. King is hailed as the reigning king of the blues. The Mississippi-born King notched an incredible 74 entries on Billboard's R&B charts between 1951 and 1985, and he was one of the few full-fledged blues artists to score a major pop hit when his 1970 record The Thrill Is Gone crossed over to mainstream success.

Starting out with a radio appearance on Sonny Boy Williamson's King Biscuit Time, it is now more than 45 years since Bill Graham introduced him on the stage of the Fillmore West in San Francisco

where he got a standing ovation before he'd played a single note. It has been said B.B.'s penetration of blues into the musical mainstream can be compared to the contributions of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong in their spheres.

B.B. King - Milestones Of A Blues Legend (1957-1962) [10 CD, 2015/FLAC]

 10 original albums with bonus tracks

CD1 : "Singin' The Blues" (1957):

CD2: "The Blues" (1957)

CD3: "B.B. King Wails" (1958)

CD4: "B.B. King Sings Spirituals" (1959)

CD5: "Compositions Of Duke Ellington And Others" (1960)

CD6: "King Of The Blues" (1960)

CD7: "My Kind Of Blues" (1960)

CD8: "More B.B. King" (1961)

CD9: "Easy Listening Blues" (1962)

CD10: "Twist With B.B. King" (1962)

B.B. King & Eric Clapton - Riding with the King (Deluxe Edition) (2020.FLAC)

  

Riding with the King is a blues album by Eric Clapton and B.B. King that was released in 2000. It was their first collaborative album and won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.

The potential for a collaboration between B.B. King and Eric Clapton is enormous, of course, and the real questions concern how it is organized and executed. This first recorded pairing between the 74-year-old King and the 55-year-old Clapton was put together in the most obvious way: Clapton arranged the session using many of his regular musicians, picked the songs, and co-produced with his partner Simon Climie. That ought to mean that King would be a virtual guest star rather than earning a co-billing, but because of Clapton's respect for his elder, it nearly works the other way around. The set list includes lots of King specialties -- "Ten Long Years," "Three O'Clock Blues," "Days of Old," "When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer" -- as well as standards like "Hold on I'm Coming" and "Come Rain or Come Shine," with some specially written and appropriate recent material thrown in, so King has reason to be comfortable without being complacent. The real danger is that Clapton will defer too much; though he can be inspired by a competing guitarist such as Duane Allman, he has sometimes tended to lean too heavily on accompanists such as Albert Lee and Mark Knopfler when working with them in concert. That danger is partially realized; as its title indicates, Riding With the King is more about King than it is about Clapton. But the two players turn out to have sufficiently complementary, if distinct, styles so that Clapton's supportive role fills out and surrounds King's stinging single-string playing. (It's also worth noting that there are usually another two or three guitarists on each track.) The result is an effective, if never really stunning, work. 

•     B.B. King – guitar, co-lead vocals
•     Eric Clapton – guitar, co-lead vocals (tracks 1, 3–9, 11, 12)
•     Doyle Bramhall II – guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9–12), background vocals (tracks 4, 7)
•     Andy Fairweather Low – guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9–12)
•     Jimmie Vaughan – guitar (track 6)
•     Joe Sample – acoustic piano (1, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11), Wurlitzer piano (tracks 1, 2, 11)
•     Tim Carmon – organ (tracks 1–7, 9–12)
•     Paul Waller – programming
•     Nathan East – bass
•     Steve Gadd – drums
•     Arif Mardin – string arrangements
•     Susannah Melvoin – background vocals (tracks 1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12)
•     Wendy Melvoin – background vocals (tracks 1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12)

01. Riding with the King (04:23)

02. Ten Long Years (04:41)

03. Key to the Highway (03:40)

04. Marry You (04:59)

05. Three O'Clock Blues (08:37)

06. Help the Poor (05:06)

07. I Wanna Be (04:46)

08. Worried Life Blues (04:26)

09. Days of Old (03:00)

10. When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer (07:10)

11. Hold on I'm Coming (06:20)

12. Come Rain or Come Shine (04:12)

13. Rollin' and Tumblin' (04:32)

14. Let Me Love You (05:07)

B.B. King - Complete Recordings 1949-1962 [6 CD, 2015]

 

B.B. King, known as The King of the Blues, and indeed one of the Three Kings of Blues Guitar (along with namesakes Albert and Freddie) was amongst the finest guitarists and vocalists to ever grace the genre. He has featured in Rolling Stone's 100 and Gibson's 50 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, reaching 6 and 17 respectively. Following his first Billboard Rhythm and Blues chart number one 'Three O'Clock Blues' in February 1952, King's career went from strength to strength, helped in no small part by the impressive number of hits he released during the rest of the decade and his extensive touring, which in 1956 reached a record-breaking 342 shows in a single year. In 1962 he recorded Live at the Regal, which is widely considered one of history's greatest blues albums, and one selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. He received exposure to a rock audience after touring with the Rolling Stones in 1969, and was awarded a Grammy for his 1970 recording of 'The Thrill Is Gone'. King was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Official Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame in 2014. B.B. King remained active throughout the rest of his life, recording regularly and often still playing in excess of 300 gigs a year. In 1997 he performed at the Vatican's fifth annual Christmas concert, presenting Lucille to Pope John Paul II. In 2000, he recorded Riding with the King with Eric Clapton, which would go on to receive the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. King embarked on a farewell tour with Gary Moore in 2006, only to continue working for another decade, famously performing a duet with President Obama at the White House in 2012. Although B.B. had suffered from diabetes for over 20 years, it was only recently that his health began to fail, which forced him to cancel a number of shows in 2014. On 14th May 2015, he sadly passed away at the age of 89.


Disc 1:

1. Got The Blues
2. Take A Swing With Me
3. Miss Martha King
4. When Your Baby Packs Up And Goes
5. My Baby's Gone
6. Walkin' And Cryin'
7. The Other Night Blues
8. B.B.Boogie
9. Mistreated Woman
10. I Am
11. B.B.Blues
12. Shake It Up And Go
13. Hard Working Woman
14. She Don't Move Me No More
15. She's Dynamite
16. Fine Looking Woman
17. Pray For You
18. She Is A Mean Woman
19. Someday Somewhere
20. It's My Own Fault
21. Story From My Heart And Soul
22. Neighbourhood Affair
23. Highway Bound
24. Can't We Talk It Over
25. Worry Worry Worry
26. Don't Have To Cry
27. You Didn't Want Me
28. Gotta Find My Baby
29. Bye Bye Baby
30. Please Hurry Home

Disc 2:

1. Please Help Me
2. Why Did You Leave Me
3. Praying To The Lord
4. Boogie Rock
5. Everything I Do Is Wrong
6. Sixteen Sons
7. Jump With You Baby
8. Lonely And Blue
9. Talking The Blues
10. You Know I Love You
11. Please Love Me
12. You Upset Me Baby
13. Bad Luck
14. Ten Long Years
15. Sweet Little Angel
16. Three O'Cock Blues
17. Blind Love
18. Crying Won't Help You
19. Woke Up This Morning
20. Everyday I Have The Blues
21. On My Word Of Honour
22. I'm Cracking Up Over You
23. Dark Is The Night (Part 1)
24. Let's Do The Boogie
25. Did You Ever Love A Woman
26. How Do I Love You
27. You Can't Fool My Heart
28. My Heart Belongs To You
29. I Wonder

Disc 3:

1. The Key To My Kingdon
2. You Don't Know
3. Early In The Morning
4. The Ain't The Way To Do It
5. I Want To Get Married
6. When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer
7. Troubles, Troubles, Troubles
8. Don't You Want A Man Like Me
9. I Need You So Bad
10. Why Does Everything Happen To Me'
11. Boogie Woogie Woman
12. Ruby Lee
13. You Know I Go For You
14. What Can I Do'
15. You've Been An Angel
16. Please Accept My Love
17. Mean Old Frisco
18. Don't Look Now, But I've Got The Blues
19. Past Day
20. Tomorrow Is Another Day
21. Fool
22. I Love You So
23. We Can't Make It
24. Treat Me Right
25. The Woman I Love
26. Time To Say Goodbye
27. Sweet Thing
28. I've Got Papers On You Baby
29. Sugar Mama
30. A Lonely Lover's Plea

Disc 4:

1. Come By Here
2. Just Sing The Blues
3. Someday Baby
4. Whole Lotta' Love
5. Be Careful With A Fool
6. (I'm Gonna) Quit My Baby
7. Days Of Old
8. Sweet Sixteen
9. Sneaking Around
10. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
11. Things Are Not The Same
12. Fishin' After Men
13. Servant's Prayer
14. Precious Lord
15. Old Time Religion
16. Sweet Chariot
17. Army Of The Lord
18. Save A Seat For Me
19. Jesus Gave Me Water
20. I Never Heard A Man
21. I'm Willing To Run All The Way
22. I'm Working On The Building
23. I Was Blind
24. I Had A Woman
25. I've Got Right To Love My Baby
26. What Way To Go
27. Long Nights (The Feeling They Call The Blues)

Disc 5:

1. Feel Like A Million
2. I'll Survive
3. Good Man Gone Bad
4. You're On The Top
5. If I Lost You
6. Partin' Time
7. I'm King
8. Mr Pawn Broker
9. Cat Fish Blues (Fishin' After Me)
10. Please Set The Date
11. Walking Dr Bill (O D)
12. Hold That Train
13. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
14. My Own Fault, Darling
15. Understand
16. Bad Case Of Love
17. Get Out Of Here
18. Baby, Look At You
19. You're Breaking My Heart
20. My Reward
21. Don't Cry Anymore
22. Blues For Me (1961)
23. Just Like A Woman
24. Shut Your Mouth
25. Bad Luck Soul
26. Peace Of Mind

Disc 6:

1. Someday
2. I'm Gonna Sit Till You Give In
3. Tomorrow Night
4. You're Gonna Miss Me
5. Got 'em Bad
6. Troubles Don't Last
7. Your Letter
8. I Can't Explain
9. I Can't Explain
10. The Wrong Road
11. I Need You Baby
12. So Many Days
13. Down Hearted
14. Strange Things
15. Easy Listening Blues
16. Blues For Me (1962)
17. Night Long
18. Confessin'
19. Don't Touch
20. Slow Walk aka Slow Burn
21. Walking'
22. Hully Gully Twist
23. Shoutin' The Blues
24. Rambler
25. My Sometime Baby
26. Down Now

The Texas International Pop Festival 1969 [13 CD]

 

The Texas International Pop Festival was a music festival held at Lewisville, Texas, on Labor Day weekend, August 30-September 1, 1969. It occurred two weeks after Woodstock. The site for the event was the newly-opened Dallas International Motor Speedway, located on the east side of Interstate Highway 35E, across from the Round Grove Road intersection.

The festival was the brainchild of Angus G. Wynne III, son of Angus G. Wynne, the founder of the Six Flags Over Texas Amusement Park. Wynne was a concert promoter who had attended the Atlanta International Pop Festival on the July Fourth weekend. He decided to put a festival on near Dallas, and joined with the Atlanta festival's main organizer, Alex Cooley, forming the company Interpop Superfest.

Artists performing at the festival were: Led Zeppelin, B.B. King, Canned Heat, Chicago (then called Chicago Transit Authority), Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Freddie King, Grand Funk Railroad, Herbie Mann, Incredible String Band, James Cotton, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Nazz, Rotary Connection, Sam and Dave, Santana, Shiva's Headband, Sly and the Family Stone, Space Opera, Spirit, Sweetwater, Ten Years After and Tony Joe White.

B.B. King - Complete Recordings 1949-1962 [6 CD, 2015]

 

B.B. King, known as The King of the Blues, and indeed one of the Three Kings of Blues Guitar (along with namesakes Albert and Freddie) was amongst the finest guitarists and vocalists to ever grace the genre. He has featured in Rolling Stone's 100 and Gibson's 50 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, reaching 6 and 17 respectively. Following his first Billboard Rhythm and Blues chart number one 'Three O'Clock Blues' in February 1952, King's career went from strength to strength, helped in no small part by the impressive number of hits he released during the rest of the decade and his extensive touring, which in 1956 reached a record-breaking 342 shows in a single year. In 1962 he recorded Live at the Regal, which is widely considered one of history's greatest blues albums, and one selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. He received exposure to a rock audience after touring with the Rolling Stones in 1969, and was awarded a Grammy for his 1970 recording of 'The Thrill Is Gone'. King was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Official Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame in 2014. B.B. King remained active throughout the rest of his life, recording regularly and often still playing in excess of 300 gigs a year. In 1997 he performed at the Vatican's fifth annual Christmas concert, presenting Lucille to Pope John Paul II. In 2000, he recorded Riding with the King with Eric Clapton, which would go on to receive the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. King embarked on a farewell tour with Gary Moore in 2006, only to continue working for another decade, famously performing a duet with President Obama at the White House in 2012. Although B.B. had suffered from diabetes for over 20 years, it was only recently that his health began to fail, which forced him to cancel a number of shows in 2014. On 14th May 2015, he sadly passed away at the age of 89.


Disc 1:

1. Got The Blues
2. Take A Swing With Me
3. Miss Martha King
4. When Your Baby Packs Up And Goes
5. My Baby's Gone
6. Walkin' And Cryin'
7. The Other Night Blues
8. B.B.Boogie
9. Mistreated Woman
10. I Am
11. B.B.Blues
12. Shake It Up And Go
13. Hard Working Woman
14. She Don't Move Me No More
15. She's Dynamite
16. Fine Looking Woman
17. Pray For You
18. She Is A Mean Woman
19. Someday Somewhere
20. It's My Own Fault
21. Story From My Heart And Soul
22. Neighbourhood Affair
23. Highway Bound
24. Can't We Talk It Over
25. Worry Worry Worry
26. Don't Have To Cry
27. You Didn't Want Me
28. Gotta Find My Baby
29. Bye Bye Baby
30. Please Hurry Home

Disc 2:

1. Please Help Me
2. Why Did You Leave Me
3. Praying To The Lord
4. Boogie Rock
5. Everything I Do Is Wrong
6. Sixteen Sons
7. Jump With You Baby
8. Lonely And Blue
9. Talking The Blues
10. You Know I Love You
11. Please Love Me
12. You Upset Me Baby
13. Bad Luck
14. Ten Long Years
15. Sweet Little Angel
16. Three O'Cock Blues
17. Blind Love
18. Crying Won't Help You
19. Woke Up This Morning
20. Everyday I Have The Blues
21. On My Word Of Honour
22. I'm Cracking Up Over You
23. Dark Is The Night (Part 1)
24. Let's Do The Boogie
25. Did You Ever Love A Woman
26. How Do I Love You
27. You Can't Fool My Heart
28. My Heart Belongs To You
29. I Wonder

Disc 3:

1. The Key To My Kingdon
2. You Don't Know
3. Early In The Morning
4. The Ain't The Way To Do It
5. I Want To Get Married
6. When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer
7. Troubles, Troubles, Troubles
8. Don't You Want A Man Like Me
9. I Need You So Bad
10. Why Does Everything Happen To Me'
11. Boogie Woogie Woman
12. Ruby Lee
13. You Know I Go For You
14. What Can I Do'
15. You've Been An Angel
16. Please Accept My Love
17. Mean Old Frisco
18. Don't Look Now, But I've Got The Blues
19. Past Day
20. Tomorrow Is Another Day
21. Fool
22. I Love You So
23. We Can't Make It
24. Treat Me Right
25. The Woman I Love
26. Time To Say Goodbye
27. Sweet Thing
28. I've Got Papers On You Baby
29. Sugar Mama
30. A Lonely Lover's Plea

Disc 4:

1. Come By Here
2. Just Sing The Blues
3. Someday Baby
4. Whole Lotta' Love
5. Be Careful With A Fool
6. (I'm Gonna) Quit My Baby
7. Days Of Old
8. Sweet Sixteen
9. Sneaking Around
10. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
11. Things Are Not The Same
12. Fishin' After Men
13. Servant's Prayer
14. Precious Lord
15. Old Time Religion
16. Sweet Chariot
17. Army Of The Lord
18. Save A Seat For Me
19. Jesus Gave Me Water
20. I Never Heard A Man
21. I'm Willing To Run All The Way
22. I'm Working On The Building
23. I Was Blind
24. I Had A Woman
25. I've Got Right To Love My Baby
26. What Way To Go
27. Long Nights (The Feeling They Call The Blues)

Disc 5:

1. Feel Like A Million
2. I'll Survive
3. Good Man Gone Bad
4. You're On The Top
5. If I Lost You
6. Partin' Time
7. I'm King
8. Mr Pawn Broker
9. Cat Fish Blues (Fishin' After Me)
10. Please Set The Date
11. Walking Dr Bill (O D)
12. Hold That Train
13. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
14. My Own Fault, Darling
15. Understand
16. Bad Case Of Love
17. Get Out Of Here
18. Baby, Look At You
19. You're Breaking My Heart
20. My Reward
21. Don't Cry Anymore
22. Blues For Me (1961)
23. Just Like A Woman
24. Shut Your Mouth
25. Bad Luck Soul
26. Peace Of Mind

Disc 6:

1. Someday
2. I'm Gonna Sit Till You Give In
3. Tomorrow Night
4. You're Gonna Miss Me
5. Got 'em Bad
6. Troubles Don't Last
7. Your Letter
8. I Can't Explain
9. I Can't Explain
10. The Wrong Road
11. I Need You Baby
12. So Many Days
13. Down Hearted
14. Strange Things
15. Easy Listening Blues
16. Blues For Me (1962)
17. Night Long
18. Confessin'
19. Don't Touch
20. Slow Walk aka Slow Burn
21. Walking'
22. Hully Gully Twist
23. Shoutin' The Blues
24. Rambler
25. My Sometime Baby
26. Down Now

B.B. King- The Complete 1958-1962 Kent Singles [2 CD, 2017]

 

Universally hailed as the King of the Blues, the legendary B.B. King's nearly seven-decade career came to a close when he passed away in Las Vegas, on May 14, 2015. One of the most imitated of all the blues giants, King projected tremendous presence on stage, both singing and playing guitar. His musical influence around the world remains incalculable.

King recorded most of his best work between the mid ‘50s and the early ‘60s, including signature tunes and blues staples like “Sweet Sixteen,” “Treat Me Right,” “Peace of Mind,” “Come By Here,” “3 O'clock Blues,” and “Everyday I Have the Blues,” to name just a few. The aforementioned songs, and many others, have been included on this remastered 2-CD set, which compiles all of B.B. King's outstanding songs released on 7” singles (A & B sides) by the Kent label between 1958 and 1962. Contained here is the cream of the crop from B.B. King's hit-making stretch for Kent Records during his most inspired years. Without a doubt, this is the material upon which B.B.'s kingdom was built.



CD 1:

01. Why Do Everything Happen To Me
02. You Know I Go For You
03. Don't Look Now, But I'Ve Got The Blues
04. Days Of Old
05. Please Accept My Love
06. You've Been An Angel
07. Mean Ole Frisco
08. Sugar Mama
09. I Am
10. Worry Worry
11. Come By Here
12. The Fool
13. Every Day I Have The Blues
14. Time To Say Goodbye
15. Sweet Sixteen
16. Got A Right To Love My Baby
17. My Own Fault
18. Please Love Me
19. Cryin' Won't Help You
20. 3 O'clock Blues
21. Did You Eve Love A Woman?
22. I Love You So
23. Treat Me Right
24. Long Nights
25. I'll Survive
26. Good Man Gone Bad
27. Partin' Time

CD 2:

01. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Know
02. Walking Dr.Bill
03. Things Are Not The Same
04. Fishin' After Me (Aka Catfish Blues)
05. Get Out Of Here
06. Bad Luck Soul
07. Peace Of Mind
08. Someday
09. Bad Case Of Love
10. You're Breaking My Heart
11. Hold That Train
12. Understand
13. Lonely
14. My Sometimes Baby
15. Hully Gully Twist
16. Gonna Miss You Around Here
17. Mashed Potato Twist
18. 3 O'clock Stomp
19. When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer
20. Going Down Slow
21. Mashing The Popeye
22. Tell Me Baby
23. Blues At Midnight
24. My Baby's Comin' Home
25. I'm Gonna Sit In Till You Give In