His Best: The Electric B.B. King (2015 Remaster) B.B. King

• 1 Tired Of Your Jive 02:13
• 2 Don't Answer The Door 05:13
• 3 The B.B. Jones 02:44
• 4 All Over Again 02:39
• 5 Paying The Cost To Be The Boss 02:37
• 6 Think It Over 02:51
• 7 I Done Got Wise 02:22
• 8 Meet My Happiness 02:22
• 9 Sweet Sixteen 04:19
• 10 You Put It On Me 02:51
• 11 I Don't Want You Cuttin' Off Your Hair 02:38
• Total Runtime 32:49

Info zu His Best: The Electric B.B. King (2015 Remaster)

Mississippi born Riley B. King began playing music on the streets of his native Indianola in the '40s, eventually moving to Memphis to pursue a career as a bluesman. He found a home as a DJ on legendary Memphis radio Station WDIA in the early '50s, a position he used to further his budding reputation as a guitarist/singer to be reckoned with. His on-air moniker, 'the Beale Street Blues Boy' ultimately metamorphosed into his stage name. He spent the '50s cementing his legend as an energetic performer, playing with Johnny Ace and Bobby 'Blue' Bland and on his own. His very modern, urban style was influenced not only by T-Bone Walker, but by jazz guitarist Charlie Christian. King's gestalt was miles away from the blues' rural beginnings, relying on witty, sophisticated lyrics and almost jazzy rhythms. His signature guitar style, as played on his trademark Gibson hollow-body 'Lucille,' combined quick vibrato with cutting, single-note lines and aggressively bent notes. His boisterous vocals, entertainment-value showmanship and gregarious personality made him beloved not just to blues aficionados, but to the larger pop audience.

„Although this collection has 'Don't Answer the Door,' 'Paying the Cost to Be the Boss' and a nice live re-cut of 'Sweet Sixteen' to highly recommend it, this 1968 issue is hardly King's best, and the 'electric' part of the title makes it sound like there's an acoustic B.B. King album lurking around somewhere that you and I somehow missed in the last 40 years. To be sure, these are rock solid performances all recorded between 1965 to 1968, just as King's music was getting slicker and more urban. But this was one of the albums that helped introduce B.B. to a more modern audience (it's gone on to sell over a million copies in 30 years' time), heading straight to the timeline of 'The Thrill Is Gone' putting him on the map worldwide. This 1998 CD reissue also includes three bonus tracks, studio versions of 'Waitin' On You' and 'Night Life,' plus 'Messy But Good' from the motion picture soundtrack For the Love of Ivy. Not his best, certainly electric, and ultimately, a good one to add to the collection after you've gotten about five or six others first.“ (Cub Koda, AMG)

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

Recorded March 3, 1965 - August 5, 1968
Produced by Johnny Pate

Digitally remastered

Please Note: We offer this album in its native sampling rate of 48 kHz, 24-bit. The provided 192 kHz version was up-sampled and offers no audible value!

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