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KING, Albert - Live Wire/Blues Power (reissue) - Vinyl (LP)
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Free delivery on many items. Same-day despatch, no-question returns. Authorised dealers - full technical support. Online since 1997. Shop categories Information Albert KING Live Wire/Blues Power (reissue) (180 gram vinyl LP with obi strip) Craft US
Cat: CR 00745. Rel: 16 Sep 24
Blues
Side 1 - Track 1. Watermelon ManSide 1 - Track 2. Blues PowerSide 1 - Track 3. Night StompSide 2 - Track 1. Blues At SunriseSide 2 - Track 2. Please Love MeSide 2 - Track 3. Look Out
Recorded in 1968 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California; Live Wire/Blues Power is a timeless live album by the great blues guitarist Albert King. Known as one of the "three Kings of blues" alongside BB King and Freddie King, this courtly rally, mic'ed up to pristine clarity, hears the wisest of these three wise men proclaim the universally apprehensible power of the blues. Alongside standards from Herbie Hancock ('Watermelon Man') and B.B. ('Please Love Me'), 'Blues Power' is the most salient track here, sticking out among the bunch as a song exclusively performed for this unassailable live show and this unassailable live show alone. "Everybody understands the blues... everybody from one day to another has the blues... you take the lil' baby that's laying in the cradle, he can't get that milk bottle fast enough, he go to kickin' and cryin' and going on tearin' up the little baby bed... he got the blues! Can you dig it?!" Nobody escapes the blues, and that is its power. Now, *that* is a message we can get behind.
