Blues for Aficionados

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

BB King

SPOTLIGHT ON LUCILLE

Flair 1992

If you've ever wanted to hear BB stretch out on Lucille a little bit, here’s your chance. An album of instrumentals that puts Lucille out front for extended solos.

B.B. King

LIVE AT THE APOLLO

Gene Harris(piano, conductor), Kenny Burrell(guitar), Ray brown(bass), Harry "Sweets" Edison(trumpet), Urbie Green(trombone), and the Philip Morris Super Band
GRP Records    1991

Jazz greats backing B.B.King.  The verdict?

Sweet Sixteen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJgkmn6K8Vo

Paying The Cost To Be The Boss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Y4f7O0mIU

Since I Met You Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9akM2tuzYd0

Ain't Nobody's Bizness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e3CbSJg5Ek

Cheers

B.B.'s wife:

Blasphemy, I cry!!!!


She was a classmate of my brother in high school.  Very nice.  I last saw her in 2007 at a reunion in Mississippi.

Cheers