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- From: oien@teledec6.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Geir Oien-dr.ing student)
- Subject: Re:Albert King (RIP)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.094927.24408@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: oien@teledec6 (Geir Oien-dr.ing student)
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 09:49:27 GMT
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- Here is my personal list of essential Albert King recordings....
-
- Studio recordings:
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- King of the blues guitar (Atlantic CD). The cream of his late 60s Stax sessions.
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- I'll play the blues for you -- The best of (Stax (UK) CD). Stax 1968-1975.
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- The lost session (Fantasy/Carrere/Stax LP (also CD?)). Jazzy 1971 session,
- produced by John Mayall.
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- Let's have a natural ball (Modern Blues Recordings CD). Great King/Bobbin sides
- from the late 50s. (Also
- mostly available on King
- CD "The Big Blues")
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- Live recordings:
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- Live wire/Blues power (Stax CD). 1969, Live at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
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- Blues at Sunrise - Live at Montreux (Stax CD). Extremely powerful 1973 recordings.
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- For anyone who don't know, Albert was one of the great masters,
- innovators and trendsetters of postwar blues guitar. Blending pure downhome
- electric blues with deep soul he created some of the most exciting and enduring
- blues ever. Echoes of his playing (sometimes much more than echoes) can be heard
- in recordings by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Cray, Anson Funderburgh,
- Son Seals, Eric Clapton, and many many more. But no one will ever get quite that
- whining, insistent, biting tone Albert squeezed out of his Flying V, "Lucy",
- nor will anyone play with such overwhelming power.
-
- Geir Egil "Blues Boy" Oien
- oien@tele.unit.no
-
- "'Cause I love her -- I love Lucy yes I do" (A. King)
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