Blues for Aficionados

Keb' Mo'

KEB' MO' LIVE:  THAT HOT PINK BLUES ALBUM

Kind of Blue Music    2016   2CD Set

Notes: "This album was captured on my 2015 tour.  It is a mix of my song catalog from the past 21 years recorded in big venues, small venues, lively clubs, symphony halls and outdoor festivals.  People often ask me what my favorite venue is and o that I say, "The one I'm playing in"."

He makes a point of listing the location of each performance.

Government Cheese      Wheeling, WV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTw00qZTYYk

Rita                                 Charleston, SC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sELZGGHYTro

Dangerous Mood             Sturgis, SD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9kIZ0D5yFE

The old me better            Saratoga, CA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAPgCAz586A

City Boy                             Saratoga, CA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf39yrIGL0k

Cheers

B.B. King

COMPLETELY WELL

MCA Records 1969

Minimum packaging. Just track listing. Not even date of CD.

Wiki:
Riley B. King, known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. Wikipedia
Born: September 16, 1925, Berclair, MS
Died: May 14, 2015, Las Vegas, NV

You’re Losin’ Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svvrGnlyjEg

No Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEJsSejWeLo

The Thrill is Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpC69qIe02E

Confessin’ the Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YjObWNpocE

Cheers

B.B. King

DO THE BOOGIE: EARLY 50s CLASSICS

Flair / Virgin America Compilation  1988

Notes: "This compact disc derives from the two volumes of B.B. King's rare recordings featured on the Ace albums CHD 201 "One Nighter Blues" and CHD 230 "Across the Tracks".  The recordings stem from B.B.'s most productive years during the 50s and are of exceptional sound quality for recordings from that period."

Why I sing the blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJKLA9N8aHM

Let's do the boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHwjrl-D0pQ

I gotta find my baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e81G6sD-4-g

Troubles, Troubles, Troubles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU4UDyPENdo

Jump with you baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxZTdjh0qdI

Cheers

B.B. King

BLUES SUMMIT

B.B. King et al. doing duets
B.B. King and his Orchestra
MCA  1993

Call It Stormy Monday  -  with Albert Collins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv0J-H7VoGo

Since I Met You Baby  -  with Katie Webster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvfw7me8ugM

I Pity the Fool  -  with Buddy Guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5MAZZ4HnVo

There's Something on Your Mind  -  with Etta James
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLXjh6S9AAo

I Gotta Move Out Of This Neighborhood / Nobody Loves Me But My Mother
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4DSX-6uBuc

Cheers 

B.B. King

HOW BLUE CAN YOU GET: CLASSIC LIVE PERFORMANCES 1964-94

MCA  1996    2CD set

Notes:"I grew up singing gospel songs and church was really my thing," King once told Robert Gordon.  He gleaned his first professional experience in the St. John Gospel Singers, a quartet based in King's hometown of Indianola, Mississippi.  Comprised of plantation field hands, the ventured as far  away as Greenwood and Greenville, where they performed on radio stations WGRM and WJPJ in 1945-46."  After a couple years of this, Riley reckoned the St. John Gospel Singers were ready for the metropolis of Memphis.  The other members of the group, who would all one day become preachers, lacked his conviction.  When he set out hitchhiking towards the river city, Riley was alone."

Sweet Little Angel (Live At The Regal Theatre, Chicago, 1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9XavgLF_oo

You Upset Me Baby (Live At The Regal Theater, Chicago, 1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsBWUaKvkYI

Sweet Sixteen (Live At Sankei Hall, Tokyo/1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIbRWk9TksY

Ain't Nobody's Business (Live At B.B. King's Blues Club, Memphis/1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjDsaMUEhGA

T Bone Shuffle - BB King with Joe louis Walker - 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iPck1yj8NU

Cheers