|
King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents B. B. King Live! | 
 enlarge
| Artist: B.b. King
Label: King Biscuit Flower
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
Buy New: $2.13
You Save: $13.85 (87%)
New (20) Used (11) from $1.20
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 128930
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 707108803822
EAN: 0707108803822
ASIN: B000006CSA
Release Date: October 20, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: New; New CD in factory-shrinkwrap! Will be shipped promptly.
| |
| Tracks:
| • | Caldonia - B.B. King, Moore, Fleecie | | • | How Blue Can You Get? - B.B. King, Feather, Leonard | | • | Goin' Down Slow - B.B. King, Oden, James Burke | | • | I Got Some Help I Don't Need - B.B. King, Clark, Dave [Songwr | | • | Just a Little Love - B.B. King, King, Riley | | • | The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King, Darnell, Rick |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
All-star jams with Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter & George Bens on. Includes a dazzling version of 'The Thrill Is Gone'. A King Biscuit Flower Hour Records release.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 King Biscuit Time and King Biscuit Flower Hour September 14, 2008
William E. Donoghue (Seattle WA 98107)
The irony of this record is that B. B. King working in Indianola in the Mid-Mississippi delta did not hear King Biscuit Time which Sonny Boy Williamson II started on KFFA radio in Helena Arkansas in 1941 by Sonny Boy and Robert Lockwood Jr., Robert Johnson's stepson is still running at 12:15 PM every weekday on KFFA since 1941. Sonny Boy left in 1944, Robert Jr. left to do another KFFA show in 1942 (for which he was paid). B. B. King did not hear the show until 1948 when KFFA formed the Delta Broadcasting Network with WROX in Clarksdale MS. Both had 70-mile radius broadcasting coverage and it toowk WROX, 70 miles closer to reach Indianola and Itta Bena where B. B. King was living. B. B. might have heard the King Biscuit Boys in Itta Bena in the interim.
The Sonny Boy and Robert Jr. connection was in 1949 when Sonny Boy was hostinn a show on KWEM, a radio station in West Memphis Arkansa, auditioned for him and played on the show -- his first radio exposure -- and got recommended for a West Memphis gig by Sonny Boy who had two scheduled -- B. B.'s first paid gig. This may have only been the only time he met Sonny Boy face-t-face. He soon had a new bandleader: Robert Jr. When B. B. decided to go on his own as a trio, Robert Jr., a strong rhythm guitaris disagreed, "You can't play and sing, you have bad timing and you'll starve."
Then Robert Jr. pulled over B. B.'s manager and band leader. "Get him a strong bass, a strong rhythm guitarist and drummer and let him sing in his gospel voice (B B. is not a blues singer but a gospel singer) have conversations with his guitar and he might make it." Twenty years later B. B. found out about Robert Jr.'s award-winning advice.
Sonny Boy Williamson II died in 1965 at the age of 53 (not the 70ish image he had), Robert Jr. died a couple of years ago at 92 after touring the world and keeping a downtown Cleveland weekly gig and recording several Grammy-nominated albums in recent years (I was at the funeral and wake), B. B. is still trucking on... God Bless Him (King Biscuit Flower Hour has nothing to do with King Biscuit Time except they sued to stop the King Biscuit Blues Festival from using the name.)
 b.b. king, you dog May 12, 2006
mojostrapper (arizona)
for anyone who has watched an older and more tired b.b. king perform the last couple years the younger generation might wonder what all the fuss was about. well this album from 1978 will give anyone a textbook lesson on b.b. king. his guitar tone is biting and nasty and this is a time when he really cared about playing the guitar. he makes his guitar sing, his makes multiple bends on one note and even shows some fast licks which is not normally a b.b. trademark.also on the album is johnny winter who does a marvelously restrained lead on the song going down slow. if you only own one b.b. king album this should be the one.
TALK ABOUT TALENTED-WOW June 22, 2004
ann mesa (CALIFORNIA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
THE TALENT AND THE JUICE THAT COMES OUT ON EVERY TRACK IS BY FAR TRUE BLUES. GEORGE BENSON -EDGAR & JOHN WINTERS. MY BODY & SOUL FELT THE POWER OF THESE MASTERS AT PLAY.SO MUCH THAT I THINK I GROOVED AS DEEP AS THEY DUG TO REALLY PULL THE JUICE OUT OF IT. IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD THIS CD THAN YOU ARE- DEFINATELY MISSING OUT ON A BLUES JOURNEY WORTH TAKING!!!!!
my favorite B.B. February 5, 2003
Craig Kirkendall (Toledo, OH)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
just pulled this one off my shelf after a long time having not listened to it. remembered just how priceless this recording is. anybody that looks at the track listing and thinks "oh dear poo, another B.B. CD with 'thrill is gone', 'how blue can you get', and 'caledonia'", subsequently passing on this one is making a huge mistake. that's what those skip buttons are for (unless, of course, these haven't been played out for you). the tracks with the Winters and the 25 minutes of George Benson in the middle of these are indeed the meat and potatoes. I didn't expect much from Benson, but he is fantastic and brings out the best in Mr. King. their extended jams in "Just A Little Love" are worth the price of this CD alone. fans of B.B.'s guitar-playing will dig this a lot more than those just into his vocals.
B.B. meets Benson & the Winters July 2, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a release of a show recorded in 1978 in New York; a bit of magic captured when George Benson and Johnny & Edgar Winter join B.B. for a blues clinic.A couple of killer extended blues jams with George & B.B. trading licks straight from blues heaven. Definitely a keeper.
|
|
|
Used CDs | |
