JANICE'S BLUES ALLEY PRESENTS
B. B. KING
b. Riley B. King, 16 September 1925, Indianola, Mississippi, USA. The son of a
sharecropper, King went to work on the plantation like any other young black in
Mississippi, but he had sung in amateur gospel groups from childhood. By the age of 16,
he was also playing blues guitar and singing on street corners. When he was 20 years
old, he temporarily quit sharecropping and went to Memphis, where he busked, and
shared a room for almost a year with his second cousin, Bukka White. However, it
was not until 1948 that he managed to pay off his debts to his former plantation boss.
After leaving farming, he returned to Memphis, determined to become a star. He
secured work with radio station KWEM, and then with WDIA, fronting a show
sponsored by the health-tonic Pepticon, which led to disc jockeying on the Sepia Swing
Show.Here he was billed as 'The Beale Street Blues Boy', later amended to 'Blues Boy
King', and then to 'B.B. King'. Radio exposure promoted King's live career, and he
performed with a band whose personnel varied according to availability. At this stage,
he was still musically untutored, and liable to play against his backing musicians, but it
was evident from his first recordings made for Bullet Records in 1949, that his talent
was striking.
The Bullet recordings brought King to the attention of Modern Records, with whom he recorded for the next 10 years. As he began to tour beyond the area around Memphis, his first marriage, already under strain, ended in divorce in 1952. By that time, he was a national figure, having held the number 1 spot in the Billboard R&B chart for 15 weeks with 'Three O'Clock Blues'. He had embarked on the gruelling trail of one-nighters that has continued ever since. Through the 50s, King toured with a 13-piece band, adopting a patriarchal attitude to his musicians that has been compared to that of a kindly plantation boss. Briefly, he operated his own Blues Boy's Kingdom label, but had no success. Modern, however, were steadily producing hits for him, although their approach to copyright-standard practice in its day was less ethical, with the label owners taking fictitious credit on many titles. B.B. King's blues singing was heavily mellifluent, influenced by Peter J. 'Doctor' Clayton and gospel singer Sam McCrary of the Fairfield Four. However, his true revolutionary importance was as an electric guitarist. He admired Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt as well as Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and also saxophonist Lester Young. He derived ideas about phrasing and harmony from all these musicians. His extensive use of sixths clearly derived from jazz. His sound, however, consisted chiefly of a synthesis of the bottleneck styles of the delta blues (including that of Bukka White) with the jazzy electric guitar of'T-Bone' Walker. To Walker's flowing, crackling music, King added finger vibrato, his own substitute for the slide, which he had never managed to master. The result was a fluid guitar sound, in which almost every note was bent and/or sustained. This, together with King's penchant for playing off the beat, gave his solos the pattern of speech, and the personification of his beautiful black, gold plated, pearl inlaid Gibson 335 (or 355) guitar as 'Lucille' seemed highly appropriate.
In 1960, King switched labels, moving to ABC in the hope of emulating Ray Charles 's success. The times were against him, however, for black tastes were moving towards soul music and spectacular stage presentation. King had always felt a need to make the blues respectable, removing sexual boasting and references to violence and drugs. As a result of these endeavours his lyrics were, ironically, closer to those of soul, with their emphasis on love, respect and security in relationships. He remained popular, as his interplay with the audience on a live album recorded in Chicago in 1964 illustrates, but by the mid-60s, his career seemed in decline, with the hits coming from Modern's back catalogue rather than his new company. Revitalization came with the discovery of the blues by young whites - initially musicians, and then the wider audience. In 1968, King played the Fillmore West with Johnny Winter and Mike Bloomfield, who introduced him as 'the greatest living blues guitarist', provoking a standing ovation before he had even played a note. His revival of Roy Hawkins''The Thrill Is Gone', which made innovatory use of strings, provided the crucial pop crossover. Consequently, in 1969, King paid his first visit to Europe, where the way had been prepared by Eric Clapton (and where an ignorant reviewer called him an 'up-and-coming guitarist of the Clapton- Peter Green school'). In 1970, he recorded his first collaboration with rock musicians, produced by Leon Russell, who played on and composed some numbers, as did Carole King. King's career has been smooth sailing ever since, and he has been in demand for commercials, movie soundtracks, television show theme tunes, and guest appearances (e.g., with U2 on 1989's 'When Love Comes To Town'). His workaholic schedule probably results, in part, from a need to finance his compulsive gambling, but he has also worked unobtrusively to provide entertainment for prisoners (co-founding the Foundation for the Advancement of Inmate Rehabilitation and Recreation in 1972).
His professional life is marked by a sense of mission, coupled with a desire to give the blues status and acceptability. This he has achieved, bringing the blues into the mainstream of entertainment, although he has done so by removing much of the sense of otherness that first brought many whites to it. Sometimes his live performances can be disappointingly bland, with singalong segments and misplaced attempts to ingratiate, as when he proudly told a Scottish audience of his meeting with Sheena Easton. His recordings since the 70s have been of inconsistent quality. King has deliberately kept in touch with his roots, returning to Mississippi each year to play, but the adulation of rock musicians has been a mixed blessing. Recordings made in London with, among others, Alexis Korner, Steve Winwood and Ringo Starr proved particularly disappointing. Equally, his collaboration with jazz-funk band the Crusaders, who produced and played on two albums, stifled his invention, and it has often seemed that King's creativity has run into the sands of MOR pop in a 12-bar format. These are the times when he is most likely to return with a brilliant, vital album that goes back to his roots in jazz, jump and the Delta. At the end of 1995 King announced that, as he had turned 70 years of age, he would be drastically reducing his performing schedule which he had maintained for many decades. Instead of a regular 300 or more gigs a year, he would be winding down in his old age, to a modest 200!
B.B. King has achieved the blues singer's dream - to live in Las Vegas and to have full access to the material benefits that the American way of life still withholds from so many black Americans. Without a doubt, though, things have changed for him; the teenager playing in the 40s streets became a man with whom the chairman of the Republican Party in the 80s considered it an honour to play guitar. B.B. King was a great influence on the sound of the blues, the sincerity of his singing and the fluency of his guitar spawning a flock of imitators as well as having a more general effect on the music's development, as reflected in the playing of Buddy Guy, his namesakes Freddie and Albert King, 'Little' Joe Blue and innumerable others. Arguably, his most far-reaching effect has been on rock music. King's limitations include an inability to play guitar behind his own singing. This has led him to make a strict demarcation between the two, and has encouraged rock guitarists to regard extended solos as the mark of authentic blues playing. In lesser hands, this has all too easily become bloated excess or meaningless note-spinning. B.B. King has always aspired to elegance, logic and purpose in his guitar playing; it is ironic that his success has spawned so many imitators possessing so little of those very qualities. B.B. King's career, like that of other black musicians in America, has been circumscribed by the dictates of the industry. Like Louis Armstrong, he has nevertheless achieved great art through a combination of prodigious technical gifts and the placing of his instinctive improvisatory skills at the service of emotional expression. Also like Armstrong, he stayed firmly within the compass of showbusiness, attempting to give the public what he perceives it to want. His greatest music, however, testifies to his standing as a titanic figure in popular music.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Copyright Muze UK Ltd. 1989 - 1998
BB King's Worldblues Site
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Singin' the Blues 1956
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01. Three O'clock Blues 02. You Know I Love You 03. Woke Up This Morning 04. You Upset Me, Baby 05. Please Love Me 06. Blind Love 07. Every Day I Have the Blues |
08. Ten Long Years (I Had a Woman) 09. Did You Ever Love a Woman 10. Sweet Little Angel 11. That Ain't the Way to Do It 12. Cryin' Won't Help You 13. Bad Luck |
Blues 1958
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01. Boogie Woogie Woman 02. Don't You Want a Man Like Me 03. What Can I Do (Just Sing the Blues) 04. Ten Long Years (I Had a Woman) 05. Ruby Lee 06. Early in the Morning |
07. I Want to Get Married 08. Why Do Everything Happen to Me 09. You Know I Go for You 10. Past Day 11. When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer 12. Troubles, Troubles, Troubles |
B. B. King Wails 1960
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01. The Fool 02. Time to Say Goodbye 03. Sweet Thing 04. I've Got Papers on You, Baby 05. Tomorrow Is Another Day |
06. I Love You So 07. We Can't Make It 08. Treat Me Right 09. The Woman I Love |
Sing Spirituals 1960
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01. Precious Lord 02. Army of the Lord 03. Save a Seat for Me 04. Ole Time Religion 05. Sweet Chariot |
06. Servant's Prayer 07. Jesus Gave Me Water 08. I Never Heard a Man 09. I'm Willing to Run All the Way 10. I'm Working on the Building |
Sneaking Around 1960
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01. Sneaking Around 02. What Can I Do (Just Sing the Blues) 03. Ten Long Years (I Had a Woman) 04. (I'm Gonna) Quit My Baby 05. Be Careful with a Fool 06. Days of Old |
07. Sweet Sixteen - Part 1 08. Sweet Sixteen - Part 2 09. I Was Blind 10. Whole Lot of Lovin' 11. Someday Baby 12. I Had a Woman |
Good Man Gone Bad 1960
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01. (I've) Got a Right to Love My Baby 02. Good Man Gone Bad 03. Partin' Time 04. What Way to Go 05. Long Nights |
06. Feel Like a Million 07. I'll Survive 08. If I Lost You 09. You're on Top 10. I'm King |
My Kind of Blues 1961
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01. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now 02. Walking Dr. Bill 03. Hold That Train 04. Understand 05. Someday Baby |
06. Mr. Pawnbroker 07. Driving Wheel 08. My Own Fault Baby 09. Catfish Blues 10. Please Set a Date |
More 1961
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01. Bad Luck Soul 02. Get Out of Here 03. Bad Case of Love 04. You're Breaking My Heart 05. My Reward |
06. Shut Your Mouth 07. I'm in Love 08. Blues for Me 09. Just Like a Woman 10. Baby Look at You |
Easy listening Blues 1962
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01. Easy Listening (Blues) 02. Blues for Me 03. Night Long 04. Confessin' 05. Don't Touch |
06. Slow Walk 07. Walkin' 08. Shoutin' the Blues 09. Rambler 10. Hully Gully (Twist) |
Mr. Blues 1962
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01. Young Dreamers 02. By Myself 03. Chains of Love 04. Another Love 05. Blues at Midnight 06. Sneaking Around |
07. On My Word of Honor 08. Tomorrow Night 09. My Baby's Comin' Home 10. Guess Who 11. You Ask Me 12. I'm Gonna Sit in 'til You Give in |
Heart Full of Blues 1962
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01. Your Letter 02. You're Gonna Miss Me 03. Let Me Love You 04. I Can't Explain 05. Troubles Don't Last 06. Got 'em Bad |
07. I Need You, Baby 08. So Many Days 09. Downhearted 10. Strange Things 11. The Wrong Road |
Going Home 1963
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01. Going Home 02. You Never Know 03. Please Remember Me 04. Come Back, Baby 05. You Won't Listen |
06. Sundown 07. You Shouldn't Have Left 08. House Rocker 09. Shake Yours 10. The Letter |
Three O'Clock Blues 1963
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01. Three O'clock Blues 02. You Know I Love You 03. Woke Up This Morning 04. When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer 05. You Upset Me, Baby 06. Sneaking Around 07. Ten Long Years (I Had a Woman) 08. Sweet Little Angel |
09. Why Do Everything Happen to Me 10. Every Day I Have the Blues 11. Sweet Sixteen - Part I & II 12. Bad Case of Love 13. Rock Me, Baby 14. Please Love Me 15. Just a Dream 16. Did You Ever Love a Woman |
My Sweet Little Angel 1964
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01. Sweet Little Angel 02. Crying Won't Help You Now 03. Ten Long Years 04. Quit My Baby 05. Don't Look Now But I've Got the Blues 06. You Know I Go For You 07. Why Do Everything Happen to Me 08. Worry, Worry 09. Shake Yours 10. Please Accept My Love 11. Treat Me Right |
12. Going Down Slow 13. Ain't That Just Like a Woman 14. Time to Say Goodbye 15. Early Every Morning 16. You've Been an Angel 17. Growing Old 18. In the Middle of an Island 19. String Bean 20. Recession Blues 21. You Shouldn't Have Left |
Rock Me Baby 1964
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01. Rock Me Baby 02. Blue Shadows 03. Worst Thing in My Life 04. Beautician Blues 05. 5 Long Years 06. Blues Stay Away 07. I Can't Lose |
08. Jungle 09. Eyesight to the Blind 10. It's a Mean World 11. I Stay in the Mood 12. I Can Hear My Name 13. Got 'em Bad 14. And Like That |
Live at the Regal 1965
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01. Every Day I Have the Blues 02. Sweet Little Angel 03. It's My Own Fault 04. How Blue Can You Get 05. Please Love Me |
06. You Upset Me, Baby 07. Worry, Worry 08. Woke Up This Morning 09. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now 10. Help the Poor |
Live! B. B. King on Stage 1965
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01. Please Love Me 02. Every Day I Have the Blues 03. Sweet Sixteen 04. Three O'Clock Blues 05. Rock Me Baby 06. Sweet Little Angel |
07. Baby Look at You 08. Woke up This Morning 09. You Upset Me Baby 10. I've Got a Right to Love 11. Let Me Love You |
Let Me Love You 1965
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01. Whole Lot of Love 02. (I'm Gonna) Quit My Baby 03. You're Gonna Miss Me 04. Let Me Love You |
05. I Can't Explain 06. Troubles Don't Last 07. Walking Doctor Bill 08. Hold That Train |
The Jungle 1965
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01. Blue Shadows 02. Eyesight to the Blind 03. Five Long Years 04. Ain't Nobody's Business 05. The Jungle 06. It's a Mean World |
07. Long Gone Baby 08. Beautician Blues 09. I Can Hear My Name 10. The Worst Thing in My Life 11. Got 'em Bad |
From the Beginning 1965
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01. Please Love Me 02. Rock Me, Baby 03. Everyday I Have the Blues 04. Woke Up This Morning 05. My Own Fault 06. Five Long Years 07. You Upset Me 08. Blue Shadows 09. The Woman I Love 10. You Know I Love You 11. Sweet Little Angel 12. Treat Me Right |
13. Sweet Sixteen 14. Eyesight to the Blind 15. Beautician Blues 16. Bad Luck 17. Troubles, Troubles, Troubles 18. Sneakin' Around 19. Sweet Thing 20. Three O'clock Blues 21. The Jungle 22. Let Me Love You 23. The Worst Thing in My Life 24. Shotgun Blues |
The Incredible Soul of B. B. King 1966
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01. A New Way of Driving 02. The Other Night Blues 03. B. B. 's Boogie 04. Walkin' and Cryin' 05. Everything I Do Is Wrong 06. She Don't Love Me No More |
07. I Gotta Find My Baby 08. My Own Fault Darling 09. That Ain't the Way to Do It 10. B. B. 's Blues 11. She's Dynamite 12. Questionnaire Blues |
Turn on to B. B. King 1966
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01. Looking the World Over 02. Worried Life 03. Bad Luck Soul 04. Goin Down Slow 05. Please Set a Date |
06. Shut Your Mouth 07. Baby Look at You 08. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now 09. Walkin' Dr. Bill 10. Recession Blues |
B. B. King Better Than Ever 1966
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01. I've Got a Right to Love My Baby 02. Partin' Time 03. Feel Like a Million 04. If I Lost You 05. Good Man Gone Bad 06. I'll Survive |
07. Long Nights 08. What a Way to Go 09. That Evil Child 10. You're on Top 11. I'm King |
Anthology of the Blues B. B. King 1949-1950 1966
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01. I've Got Papers on You, Baby 02. Tomorrow Is Another Day 03. A Fool Too Long 04. Come By Here 05. The Woman I Love 06. My Silent Prayer |
07. I Love You So 08. Sweet Thing 09. We Can't Make It 10. Treat Me Right 11. Time to Say Good-bye 12. I'm Cracking Up Over You |
Confessin' the Blues 1966
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01. I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water 02. Goin' to Chicago Blues 03. See See Rider 04. Do You Call That a Buddy 05. Wee Baby Blues 06. In the Dark |
07. Confessin' the Blues 08. I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town 09. How Long, How Long Blues 10. Cherry Red 11. Please Send Me Someone to Love |
Blues Is King 1967
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01. Waitin' on You 02. Gambler's Blues 03. Tired of Your Love 04. Night Life 05. Buzz Me |
06. Don't Answer the Door 07. Blind Love 08. I Know What You're Putting Down 09. Baby, Get Lost 10. Gonna Keep on Loving You |
Blues on Top of Blues 1968
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01. Heartbreaker 02. Losing Faith in You 03. Dance with Me 04. That's Wrong, Little Mama 05. Having My Say 06. I'm Not Wanted Anymore |
07. Worried Dream 08. Paying the Cost to Be the Boss 09. Until I Found You 10. I'm Gonna Do What They Do to Me 11. Raining in My Heart 12. Now That You've Lost Me |
Lucille 1968
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01. Lucille 02. You Move Me So 03. Country Girl 04. No Money, No Luck Blues 05. I Need Your Love |
06. Rainin' All the Time 07. I'm with You 08. Stop Puttin the Hurt on Me 09. Watch Yourself |
His Best - The Electric B. B. King 1968
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01. Tired of Your Jive 02. Don't Answer the Door 03. The B. B. Jones 04. All Over Again 05. Paying the Cost to Be the Boss 06. Think It Over |
07. I Done Got Wise 08. Meet My Happiness 09. Sweet Sixteen 10. You Put It on Me 11. I Don't Want You Cuttin' Off Your Hair |
Live and Well 1969
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01. I Want You So Bad 02. Friends 03. Get Off My Back, Woman 04. Let's Get Down to Business 05. Why I Sing the Blues |
06. Don't Answer the Door 07. Just a Little Love 08. My Mood 09. Sweet Little Angel 10. Please Accept My Love |
Completely Well 1969
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01. So Excited 02. No Good 03. You're Losin' Me 04. What Happened 05. Confessin' the Blues |
06. Key to My Kingdom 07. Cryin' Won't Help You Now 08. You're Mean 09. The Thrill Is Gone |
Indianola Mississippi Seeds 1970
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01. Nobody Loves Me But My Mother 02. You're Still My Woman 03. Ask Me No Questions 04. Until I'm Dead and Cold 05. King's Special |
06. Ain't Gonna Worry My Life 07. Chains and Things 08. Go Underground 09. Hummingbird |
B. B. King Live in Cook County Jail 1970
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01. Introduction 02. Every Day I Have the Blues 03. How Blue Can You Get 04. Worry, Worry, Worry 05. Medley: Three o'Clock Blues |
06. Darlin', You Know I Love You 07. Sweet Sixteen 08. The Thrill Is Gone 09. Please Accept My Love |
B. B. King in London 1971
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01. Caldonia 02. Blue Shadows 03. Alex's Boogie 04. We Can't Agree 05. Ghetto Woman |
06. Wet Haystack 07. Part-Time Love 08. Power of the Blues 09. Ain't Nobody Home |
L. A. Midnight 1972
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01. I Got Some Help I Don't Need 02. Help the Poor 03. Can't You Hear Me Talking to You? 04. Midnight |
05. Sweet Sixteen 06. (I Believe) I've Been Blue Too Long 07. Lucille's Granny |
Guess Who 1972
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01. Summer in the City 02. Just Can't Please You 03. Any Other Way 04. You Don't Know Nothin' About Love 05. Found What I Need 06. Neighborhood Affair |
07. I Takes a Young Girl 08. Better Lovin' Man 09. Guess Who 10. Shouldn't Have Left Me 11. Five Long Years |
To Know You Is to Love You 1972
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01. I Like to Live the Love 02. Respect Yourself 03. Who Are You 04. Love |
05. I Can't Leave 06. To Know You Is to Love You 07. Oh to Me 08. Thank You For Loving the Blues |
Back in the Alley - The Classic Blues of B. B. King 1972
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01. Sweet Little Angel 02. Watch Yourself 03. Don't Answer the Door 04. Paying the Cost to Be the Boss 05. Sweet Sixteen |
06. Gambler's Blues 07. I'm Gonna Do What They Do to Me 08. Lucille 09. Please Love Me |
The Best of B. B. King 1972
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01. Hummingbird 02. Cook County Jail Introduction 03. How Blue Can You Get 04. Caldonia 05. Sweet Sixteen |
06. Ain't Nobody Home 07. Why I Sing the Blues 08. The Thrill is Gone 09. Nobody Loves Me But My Mother |
Lucille Talks Back 1973
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01. Lucille Talks Back 02. Breaking Up Somebody's Home 03. Reconsider Baby 04. Don't Make Me Pay for His Mistakes |
05. When I'm Wrong 06. I Know the Price 07. Have Faith 08. Everybody Lies a Little |
Together For the First Time 1976
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01. Three o'Clock Blues 02. It's My Own Fault 03. Don't Cry No More 04. Driftin' Blues 05. I'm Sorry 06. Why I Sing the Blues |
07. I'll Take Care of You 08. I Like to Live the Love 09. Don't Answer the Door 10. Goin' Down Slow 11. That's the Way Love Is 12. Medley |
Bobby Bland and B. B. King 1976
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01. Together Again . . . Live 02. Let the Good Times Roll 03. Medley: Stormy Monday Blues 04. Strange Things Happen 05. Feel So Bad |
06. Medley: Mother-in-Law Blues 07. Mean Old World 08. Everyday 09. Medley: The Thrill Is Gone 10. I Ain't Gonna Be the First to Cry |
King Size 1977
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01. Don't You Lie to Me 02. I Wonder Why 03. Medley: I Just Want to Make Love to You 04. Your Lovin' Turned Me On 05. Slow and Easy |
06. Got My Mojo Working 07. Walkin' in the Sun 08. Mother for Ya 09. The Same Love That Made Me Laugh 10. Its Just a Matter of Time |
Midnight Believer 1978
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01. When It All Comes Down 02. Midnight Believer 03. I Just Can't Leave Your Love Alone 04. Hold On |
05. Never Make Your Move Too Soon 06. A World Full of Strangers 07. Let Me Make You Cry a Little Longer |
Take It Home 1979
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01. Better Not Look Down 02. Same Old Story 03. Happy Birthday Blues 04. I've Always Been Lonely |
05. Secondhand Woman 06. Tonight I'm Gonna Make You a Star 07. Story Everbody Knows 08. Take It Home |
Live! B. B. King on Stage 1979
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01. Please Love Me 02. Everyday I Have the Blues 03. Sweet Sixteen 04. Three o'Clock Blues 05. Rock Me Baby 06. Sweet Little Angel |
07. Baby Look at You 08. Woke Up This Morning 09. You Upset Me Baby 10. I've Got a Right to Love My Baby 11. Let Me Love You |
B. B. King Now Appearing at Ole Miss 1980
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01. Intro-B. B. King Blues Theme 02. Caldonia 03. Medley: Don't Answer the Door 04. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now 05. I Need Your Love So Bad 06. Nobody Loves Me But My Mother 07. Hold On 08. I Got Some Outside Help (I Don't Really Need) |
09. Darlin' You Know I Love You 10. When I'm Waiting 11. The Thrill Is Gone 12. Never Make Your Move Too Soon 13. Three o'Clock in the Morning 14. Rock Me Baby 15. Guess Who 16. I Just Can't Leave Your Love Alone |
There Must Be a Better World Somewhere 1981
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01. Life Ain't Nothing But a Party 02. Born Again Human 03. There Must Be a Better World Somewhere |
04. The Victim 05. More, More, More 06. You're Going With Me |
Love Me Tender 1982
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01. One of Those Nights 02. Love Me Tender 03. Don't Change On Me 04. (I'd Be) A Legend in My Time 05. You've Always Got the Blues |
06. Nightlife, Please Send Me Someone to Love 07. You and Me, Me and You 08. Since I Met You Baby 09. Time Is a Thief 10. A World I Never Made |
Great Moments With B. B. King 1982
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01. Waitin' on You 02. Gambler's Blues 03. Tired of Your Jive 04. Night Life 05. Buzz Me 06. Blind Love 07. See See Rider 08. Wee Baby Blues 09. I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water 10. I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town 11. How Long, How Long Blues 12. Cherry Red |
13. Baby Get Lost 14. Gonna Keep on Loving You 15. I Know What You're Puttin' Down 16. Heartbreaker 17. Dance With Me 18. That's Wrong Little Mama 19. Paying the Cost to Be the Boss 20. Until I Found You 21. I'm Gonna Do What They Do to Me 22. Having My Say 23. I'm Not Wanted Anymore 24. Worried Dream |
Six Silver Strings 1985
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01. Six Silver Strings 02. Big Boss Man 03. In the Midnight Hour 04. Into the Night |
05. My Lucille 06. Memory Lane 07. My Guitar Sings the Blues 08. Double Trouble |
Spotlight on Lucille 1986
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01. Slidin' and Glidin' 02. Blues With B. B. 03. King of Guitar 04. Jump With B. B. 05. 38th Street Blues 06. Feedin' the Rock |
07. Just Like a Woman 08. Step It Up 09. Calypso Jazz 10. Easy Listening Blues 11. Shoutin' the Blues 12. Powerhouse |
Blues 'N' Jazz 1986
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01. Inflation Blues 02. Broken Heart 03. Sell My Monkey 04. Heed My Warning 05. Teardrops From My Eyes |
06. Rainbow Riot 07. Darlin' You Know I Love You 08. Make Love to Me 09. I Can't Let You Go |
King of the Blues: 1989
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01. (You've Become a) Habit to Me 02. Drowning in the Sea of Love 03. Can't Get Enough 04. Standing on the Edge 05. Go on 06. Let's Straighten It Out |
07. Change in Your Lovin' 08. Undercover Man 09. Lay Another Log on the Fire 10. Business With My Baby Tonight 11. Take Off Your Shoes |
Live at Newport in New York 1989
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01. Little Red Rooster 02. Ball and Chain 03. Confessin' the Blues 04. They Call Me Mr. Cleanhead 05. Hold It Right There 06. Kidney Stew |
07. That's Alright Now Mama 08. Long Distance Call 09. Where's My Woman Been 10. Got My Mojo Workin' 11. Outside Help |
MCAD 6455: Live at San Quentin 1990
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01. B. B. King Intro 02. Let the Good Times Roll 03. Everyday I Have the Blues 04. Whole Lotta Loving 05. Sweet Little Angel 06. Never Make a Move Too Soon 07. Into the Night |
08. Ain't Nobody's Business 09. The Thrill is Gone 10. Peace to the World 11. Nobody Loves Me But My Mother 12. Sweet Sixteen 13. Rock Me Baby |
The Fabulous B. B. King 1991
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01. Three O'Clock Blues 02. You Know I Love You 03. Please Love Me 04. You Upset Me Baby 05. Bad Luck 06. On My Word Of Honor |
07. Everyday I Have the Blues 08. Woke Up This Morning (My Baby's Gone) 09. When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer 10. Sweet Little Angel 11. Ten Long Years 12. Whole Lotta Love |
There Is Always One More Time 1991
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01. I'm Moving on 02. Back in L. A. 03. The Blues Come Over Me 04. Fool Me Once 05. The Low Down |
06. Mean and Evil 07. I've Got Something Up My Sleeve 08. Roll, Roll, Roll 09. There Is Always One More Time |
Everyday I Have the Blues 1991
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01. Sweet Sixteen 02. The Other Night Blues 03. It's My Own Fault Baby 04. Long Nights 05. Mr. Pawnbroker 06. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now 07. Catfish Blues |
08. Paying the Cost to Be the Boss 09. Everyday I Have the Blues 10. B. B. Boogie 11. A New Way of Driving 12. Walkin' and Cryin' 13. How Blue Can You Get 14. The Letter |
Live at the Apollo 1991
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01. When Love Comes to Town 02. Sweet Sixteen 03. The Thrill Is Gone 04. Ain't Nobody's Business 05. Paying the Cost to Be the Boss |
06. All Over Again 07. Nightlife 08. Since I Met You Baby 09. Guess Who 10. Peace to the World |
Heart and Soul 1992
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01. Lonely and Blue 02. Sneakin' Around (With You) 03. You Can'y Fool My Heart 04. Story From My Heart and Soul 05. Don't Get Around Much Anymore 06. You Know I Love You 07. I'm King 08. A Lonely Lover's Plea 09. My Heart Belongs to You 10. Don't Cry Anymore |
11. Please Accept My Love 12. Peace of Mind 13. I Was Blind 14. On My Word of Honor 15. I'll Survive 16. If I Lost You 17. My Reward 18. I Am 19. I Love You So 20. Key to My Kingdom |
Why I Sing the Blues 1992
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01. The Thrill Is Gone 02. Ghetto Woman 03. Why I Sing the Blues 04. Ain't Nobody Home 05. Hummingbird |
06. To Know You Is to Love You 07. How Blue Can You Get? 08. Sweet Sixteen 09. So Excited 10. Chains and Things |
King of the Blues (4 Disc Box Set) 1992
Disc 1: 1949 - 1966
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01. Miss Martha King 02. She's Dynamite 03. Three O'clock Blues 04. Please Love Me 05. You Upset Me Baby 06. Everyday I Have the Blues 07. Rock Me Baby 08. Recession Blues 09. Don't Get Around Much Anymore 10. I'm Gonna Sit In 'Til You Give In 11. Blues at Midnight 12. Sneakin' Around 13. My Baby's Comin' Home |
14. Slowly Losing My Mind 15. How Blue Can You Get 16. Rockin' Awhile 17. Help the Poor 18. Stop Leadin' Me On 19. Sweet Little Angel 20. All Over Again 21. Sloppy Drunk 22. Don't Answer the Door, Parts One and Two 23. I Done Got Wise 24. Think It Over 25. Gambler's Blues |
Disc 2: 1966 - 1969
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01. Goin' Down Slow 02. Tired of Your Jive 03. Sweet Sixteen, Parts One and Two 04. Paying the Cost To Be the Boss 05. I'm Gonna Do What They Do To Me 06. Lucille 07. Watch Yourself 08. You Put It On Me |
09. Get Myself Somebody 10. I Want You So Bad 11. Why I Sing the Blues 12. Get Off My Back Woman 13. Please Accept My Love 14. Fools Get Wise 15. No Good 16. So Excited |
Disc 3: 1969 - 1975
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01. The Thrill Is Gone 02. Confessin' the Blues 03. Nobody Loves Me But My Mother 04. Hummingbird 05. Ask Me No Questions 06. Chains and Things 07. Eyesight to the Blind 08. Niji Baby |
09. Blue Shadows 10. Ghetto Woman 11. Ain't Nobody Home 12. I Get Some Help I Don't Need 13. Five Long Years 14. To Know You Is To Love You 15. I Like to Live the Love 16. Don't Make Me Pay for His Mistakes |
Disc 4: 1976 - 1991
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01. Let the Good Times Roll 02. Don't You Lie to Me 03. Mother Fuyer 04. Never Make a Move Too Soon 05. While It All Comes Down (I'll Still Be Around) 06. Better Not Look Down 07. Caldonia 08. There Must Be a Better World Somewhere 09. Play With Your Poodle 10. Darlin' You Know I Love You |
11. Inflation Blues 12. Make Love to Me 13. Into the Night 14. Six Silver Strings 15. When Love Comes to Town 16. Right Time, Wrong Place 17. Many Miles Traveled 18. I'm Moving On 19. Since I Met You Baby |
Blues Summit 1993
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01. Playin' With My Friends 02. Since I Met You Baby 03. I Pity the Fool 04. You Shook Me 05. Something You Got 06. There's Something on Your Mind 07. Little By Little |
08. Call It Stormy Monday 09. You're the Boss 10. We're Gonna Make It 11. I Gotta Move Out of This Neighborhood 12. Nobody Loves Me But My Mother 13. Everybody's Had the Blues |
I Like To Live The Love (with Bobby 'Blue' Bland) 1993
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01. Three O'Clock Blues 02. It's Own Fault 03. That's The Way Love Is 04. I'm Sorry 05. Don't Cry No More |
06. Don't Answer The Door 07. Goin' Down Slow 08. I Like To Live The Love 09. Driftin' Blues 10. Let The Good Times Roll |
Heart To Heart (with Diane Schuur) 1994
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01. No One Ever Tells You 02. I Can't Stop Loving You 03. You Don't Know Me 04. It Heard To be You 05. I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket |
06. Glory Of Love 07. Try A Little Tenderness 08. Spirit In The Dark 09. Freedom 10. At Last |
How Blue Can You Get? 1996
Classic Live Performances 1964 to 1994
(Double CD Set)
Disc 1: 1964 to 1971
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01. Every Day I Have the Blues 02. Sweet Little Angel 03. Please Love Me 04. You Upset Me Baby 05. Gambler's Blues 06. Buzz Me 07. Baby Get Lost 08. Blind Love |
09. Don't Answer the Door 10. Please Accept My Love 11. Worry, Worry 12. How Blue Can You Get? 13. Eyesight to the Blind 14. Chains and Things 15. Sweet Sixteen 16. The Thrill is Gone |
Disc 2: 1976 to 1994
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01. Let the Good Times Roll (with Bobby Bland) 02. I Got Some Help I Don't Need 03. Caldonia 04. Night Life (with The Crusaders) 05. Never Make a Move Too Soon (with The Crusaders) 06. All Over Again 07. Please Send Me Someone to Love (with Gladys Knight) |
08. Nobody Loves Me But My Mother 09. When Love Comes to Town 10. Paying the Cost to Be the Boss 11. Ain't Nobody's Business (with Ruth Brown) 12. T-Bone Shuffle (with Joe Louis Walker) 13. Rock Me Baby |
Deuces Wild 1997
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01. If You Love Me 02. Thrill Is Gone 03. Rock Me Baby 04. Please Send Me Someone to Love 05. Baby I Love You 06. Ain't Nobody Home 07. There Must Be a Better World Somewhere |
08. Confessin' The Blues 09. Paying the Cost to Be the Boss 10. Dangerous Mood 11. Keep It Coming 12. Cryin' Won't Help You Babe 13. Night Life |
Blues on the Bayou 1998
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01. Blues Boys Tune 02. Bad Case Of Love 03. I'll Survive 04. Mean Ole' World 05. Blues Man 06. Broken Promise 07. Darlin' What Happened 08. Shake It Up And Go |
09. Blues We Like 10. Good Man Gone Bad 11. If I Lost You 12. Tell Me Baby 13. I Got Some Outside Help I Don't Need 14. Blues In "G" 15. If That Ain't it I Quit |
The Thrill is Gone 1999
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1. The Thrill Is Gone 2. Guess Who 3. Paying The Cost To Be The Boss 4. All Over Again |
5. Jam 6. Every Day I Have The Blues 7. Sweet Little Angel 8. B.B.'s Theme |
Let The Good Times Roll: The Music Of Louis Jordan 1999
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01. Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens 02. Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't My Baby? 03. Beware, Brother Beware 04. Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door 05. Ain't That Just Like a Woman 06. Choo Choo Ch' Boogie 07. Buzz Me 08. Early In The Mornin' 09. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town |
10. Jack, You're Dead! 11. Knock Me A Kiss 12. Let The Good Times Roll 13. Caldonia 14. It's A Great, Great Pleasure 15. Rusty Dusty Blues (Mama Mama Blues) 16. Sure Had A Wonderful Time Last Night 17. Saturday Night Fish Fry 18. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out |
Golden Legends 1999
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01. Everyday I Have The Blues 02. B.B. Boogie 03. A New Way Of Driving 04. Walkin' And Cryin' 05. The Thrill Is Gone |
06. The Letter 07. How Blue Can You Get 08. Praying The Cost To Be The Boss 09. It's My Own Fault 10. You've Done Lost Your Good Thing Now |
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best Of B.B. King 1999
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01. The Thrill Is Gone 02. Ain't Nobody Home 03. Let The Good Times Roll 04. Guess Who 05. I Like To Live The Love |
06. Don't Answer The Door 07. Sweet Sixteen 08. Paying The Cost To Be The Boss 09. I Got Some Help I Don't Need 10. Into The Night |
