By 1967, King had refined his singing and guitar style (which were always intertwined) to a fine point. What was just beginning to emerge during this period was King the showman, the singer with a story to tell his audience; sometimes a sad story, sometimes an angry one, occasionally even a downright mean one. Nowhere was this more apparent than in live performance. Here he's captured in concert in Chicago, home of the blues and the ideal place to testify to the congregation. From "Tired of Your Jive" to "I Know What You're Puttin' Down" to the unequivocal "Baby Get Lost," B.B. lets his audience in on the ups and downs of romance in no uncertain terms, both through his impassioned vocals and characteristically stinging guitar. The effect is both cathartic and awe-inspiring. (Allmusic)
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01 Introduction 02 Waitin' On You 03 Introduction 04 Gambler's Blues 05 Tired Of Your Jive 06 Night Life 07 Buzz Me 08 Don't Answer The Door 09 Blind Love 10 I Know What You're Puttin' Down 11 Baby, Get Lost 12 Gonna Keep On Loving You
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B.B. KING "Blues Is King"
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Goodbye, Babylon Box set (2004)
By any standard, this six-CD box set of old-time gospel music is a stupendous release, both in terms of musical significance, and elaborate packaging. The discs include no less than 135 songs, virtually all of them from the mid-1920s to the mid-1950s, save a couple that fall outside of that time frame in either direction. That's not even counting the bonus disc of 25 sermons, taken from actual African-American sermons released on record between 1926 and 1941, mostly from the earlier years of that stretch. It amounts to the largest, and certainly the most diverse, compilation of American gospel music from the early days of the phonograph record, encompassing both the White and African-American strands of the form. And it's not exclusively of interest to gospel specialists, as much of the music is squarely in the early American country, blues, and/or folk tradition, and heavily impacted the growth of those forms. -Allmusic
Info
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FLAC incl. 200-page book scans
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Expiry date 3 february 2015
Thanks Gyro. In 1967 I was a 20 year old freshly arrived in San Francisco. Sometime late that year I attended my first concert at the Winterland Ballroom. I went to see the Byrds but also on the bill was The Electric Flag and I was excited about hearing them. However, leading off the show was a blues guy that I'm not sure I had ever heard of; B.B. King and his band. I was transfixed. I don't think that I had ever heard the real Blues before that performance, how B.B. sang with his guitar. I don't mean he sang while he played guitar, I mean he and his guitar were one instrument.
I cannot remember anything about the Byrds that night. I remember the light show that accompanied Electric Flag. But I've never forgotten how B.B. King captured me that night and never let me go.
Probably this record was recorded before that show because I believe I first saw him in November or December. But I've never forgotten it.
Thank you.
Thanks for posting this - my absolute favorite B.B. live album. Saw him about this time and it was life changing. Here are two extra tracks that were recorded at the same concert - Going Down Slow and Sweet Sixteen (which is fantastic). They are numbered tracks 13 & 14, so they'll fit right in.
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LOUIS JORDAN & HIS TYMPANY FIVE 1938-1950 (JSP 5 CD Box Set) @320
This magnificent five-CD set from the British label JSP has all of Louis Jordan's studio recordings (not counting radio transcriptions, V-Discs, and rarities unearthed by the Bear Family label) from his first date as a leader in 1938 through the end of 1950. Jordan would continue recording regularly for the Decca label into 1953, but all of his hits are on this set plus a variety of lesser-known but superior material. In other words, get this set and one really has the very best of Jordan. A fine altoist who was a personable singer, a subtle comedian, and a winning personality, Jordan pioneered the move of jazz from big-band swing to small-group jump music and early R&B. Once he caught on with the 40th song on this set ("Knock Me a Kiss"), Jordan had hit after hit including many songs that are still greatly beloved such as "Five Guys Named Moe," "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie," and "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens." There are many fine solos throughout this set (particularly from Jordan and his trumpeters) and nearly every selection is memorable. While Jordan's recordings have been repackaged and reissued in many ways through the years, this is the most logical way to acquire this timeless and joyful music. (Scott Yanow, Allmusic)
Over six hours of jivin' and hoodooin'! Remastered by renowned engineer John R.T. Davies, these 131 sides take us from 1938, when Louis was just formulating his act, all the way up to 1950, when he was the biggest star on the "race records" circuit. Along the way lie such all-time great tunes as Ration Blues; G. I. Jive; Caldonia Boogie; Buzz Me; Is You Is or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby); My Baby Said Yes; Stone Cold Dead in the Market; Choo Choo Ch'Boogie; Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens; Open the Door, Richard; Baby, It's Cold Outside -in short, every hit Louis had, all dished up hot and chronological-like!
Think five discs and 131 songs is too much Louis Jordan? Not a chance. Not for a man who so consistently and so definitively achieved the elusive and delicate combination of musicianship and accessibility. Not for a man who paved new and vital musical roads without ever losing his sense of style or his appetite for fun. Covering Jordan's historic (not to mention commercially successful) Decca tenure (1938 to 1950), this amazing collection finds the alto sax player, songwriter, and singer building blues and swing into a hot mix that came to be known as R&B, producing hit after hit with topnotch bands behind him, streamlining the big-band concept without diminishing the music's force. Much has been made of his role in the development of R&B--and as a result, rock & roll--and his importance as a musical pioneer can't be underestimated. But all ideas about "historical importance" fade away as these vibrant, insistent, irresistible tracks roll by. --Marc Greilsamer
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The BB King performance on that recording took play 5 November 1966.
Thanks to Gyro and Steve 626.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the Louis Jordan box. I can not wait to treat my ears to this!
Thanks so much to G for the BB and the Louis Jordan, including the later Louis offered earlier. If you're looking for the "missing link" that runs from swing to rock, it's Louis Jordan, not Louis Armstrong. Amazingly, the last two collections, ostensibly a nod to rock'n'roll, swing just as hard as the first two. What a cool guy he was. I have a photo (from the cover of an import Jordan collection) in which he's actually endorsing the then-new Wurlitzer 1015 jukebox, the most iconic box of them all. What a cool guy.
Iggy
Fantastic Louis Jordan, Gyro. I thought I had just about everything he recorded but now I have most of it remastered and it is just fabulous.
My Uncle Deane probably wouldn't have liked it too much, however. His Louis Jordan were all on 78s, lo-fi, and scratchy. Just the way he liked it.
Thank You!
Here's a B.B. King bonus for you
B.B. King - 1967-12-08 Winterland @ 320
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Just like the review says, The Regal is good, but this one is the one. Thanks for everything.
Thank you, Steve626. Could that be the concert that I spoke of? Wow!
JohnnyDiego
It could be - I've got a tape of The Electric Flag from the Winterland on 12-8-67!
Thanks for everything, and especially today for the Louis Jordan box set !
That Louis Jordan set is massive! Looking forward to digging in. Many Thanks Gyro
-peacenik
Agree completely that Blues Is King is better than Live At The Regal. Wonderful post. Thanks for putting it up and thanks to Steve626 for the extras.
Thanks Gyro for BB King, thats really great. Thanks also for Louis Jordan, I think that if it had not been on this blog I should never had heard it : thanks for this very beautiful gift.
Thanks JD for your comments, very often I feel the same thing that when I'm reading a rock magazine.
Thanks Steve 626 for your bonus.
LittleJack
This is very nice, thank you. I don't know if I'd place it above Live at the Regal, but its a great record and great to have it to listen to.
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