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Albert King (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992) was an American
United States

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 blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 guitarist
Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
 and singer.

of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with B. B. King
B. B. King

B. B. King is an United States blues guitarist and singer-songwriter known for his expressive singing and inimitable guitar playing. As Komara has written, "King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed." Critic...
 and Freddie King
Freddie King

Freddie "The Texas Cannonball" King was an influential American blues guitarist and singer best known for his recordings from early 1960s including "Hide Away" and "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" and the album Burglar recorded in 1974....
), he stood at least 6' 4" (192 cm), weighed in at least 260 lbs (118 kg) and was known as "The Velvet Bulldozer". He was born Albert Nelson on a cotton
Cotton

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 plantation in Indianola, Mississippi
Indianola, Mississippi

Indianola is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,066 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Sunflower County, Mississippi....
. During his childhood he would sing at a family gospel group
Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
 at a church.






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Albert King (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 guitarist
Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
 and singer.

Career

One of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with B. B. King
B. B. King

B. B. King is an United States blues guitarist and singer-songwriter known for his expressive singing and inimitable guitar playing. As Komara has written, "King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed." Critic...
 and Freddie King
Freddie King

Freddie "The Texas Cannonball" King was an influential American blues guitarist and singer best known for his recordings from early 1960s including "Hide Away" and "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" and the album Burglar recorded in 1974....
), he stood at least 6' 4" (192 cm), weighed in at least 260 lbs (118 kg) and was known as "The Velvet Bulldozer". He was born Albert Nelson on a cotton
Cotton

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
 plantation in Indianola, Mississippi
Indianola, Mississippi

Indianola is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,066 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Sunflower County, Mississippi....
. During his childhood he would sing at a family gospel group
Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
 at a church. He began his professional work as a musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
 with a group called In The Groove Boys, in Osceola
Osceola, Arkansas

Osceola is a city in and one of the two county seats of Mississippi County, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States. The population was 8,875 at the United States Census, 2000....
, Arkansas
Arkansas

Arkansas is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States of the United States. Arkansas shares a border with six states, with its eastern border largely defined by the Mississippi River....
. He also briefly played drums
Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
 for Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed

Mathis James "Jimmy" Reed was an United States blues singer notable for bringing his distinctive style of blues to mainstream audiences. Reed was a major player in the field of electric blues, as opposed to the more acoustic-based sound of many of his contemporaries....
's band and on several early Reed recordings. Influenced by Blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 musicians Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson

"Blind" Lemon Jefferson was an influential blues singer and guitarist from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s, and has been titled "Father of the Texas Blues."...
 and Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson

Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson was an United States blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos....
, but also interestingly Hawaiian music, the electric guitar
Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
 became his signature instrument
Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an object constructed or used for the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument....
, his preference being the Gibson Flying V
Gibson Flying V

The Gibson Flying V is an electric guitar model first released by Gibson Guitar Corporation 1958 in music....
, which he named "Lucy".

King was a left-handed "upside-down/backwards" guitarist. He was left-handed, but usually played right-handed guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
s flipped over upside-down so the low E string was on the bottom. In later years he played a custom-made guitar that was basically left-handed, but had the strings reversed (as he was used to playing). He also used very unorthodox tunings (i.e., tuning as low as C to allow him to make sweeping string bends). A "less is more" type blues player, he was known for his expressive "bending" of notes, a technique characteristic of blues guitarists.

His first minor hit came in 1958 with "I'm a Lonely Man" written by Bobbin
Bobbin

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 Records A&R
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 man and fellow guitar hero Little Milton
Little Milton

Milton "Little Milton" Campbell, Jr. was a blues and Soul music vocalist and guitarist best known for his hits "Grits Ain't Groceries" and "We're Gonna Make It." Most popular in 1960s, he became one of the lesser known greats of the genre, combining traditional lyrical structure with smoother production....
, responsible for King's signing with the label. However, it was not until his 1961 release "Don't Throw Your Love on Me So Strong" that he had a major hit, reaching number fourteen on the R&B charts. In 1966 he signed with the famous Stax
Stax Records

Stax Records is an USA record label founded in 1957, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing Gospel music, funk, jazz, and blues recordings....
 record label
Record label

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. Produced by powerhouse drummer Al Jackson, Jr., King with Booker T. & the MGs recorded dozens of hugely influential sides, such as "Crosscut Saw" and "As The Years Go Passing By
As The Years Go Passing By

"As The Years Go Passing By" is a song written by Deadric Malone and performed by Albert King in 1967. In 1968 Eric Burdon & The Animals recorded it for their last album, Love Is ....
", and in 1967 Stax
Stax

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 released the legendary album
Album

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, Born Under a Bad Sign
Born Under a Bad Sign

Born Under a Bad Sign is a blues album by Albert King, recorded between 1966 and 1967,and released in 1967 by Stax Records. This was the first album Albert King recorded on Stax, and the title song became a blues standard....
. The title track of that album (written by Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones

Booker T. Jones is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known for frontman the band , Booker T. and the MGs....
 and William Bell
William Bell

William Bell may refer to:* William Bell , Bishop of St Andrews* William Bell * William Bell * William Bell * Dr. William Bell , founder of Manitou Springs, Colorado...
) became King's most well known song and has been covered by many artists (from Cream
Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
 to Homer Simpson
Homer Simpson

Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons and father of the Simpson family. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show The Simpsons shorts "Good Night " on April 19, 1987....
)

Another landmark album followed in Live Wire/Blues Power from one of many seminal dates King played at promoter Bill Graham
Bill Graham

William Carvel "Bill" Graham, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Queen's Counsel is a former Canadian politician. In 2006, he was Canada's Leader of the Opposition as well as the interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada between the resignation of Paul Martin and the election of St?phane Dion as his successor....
's Fillmore venues.

In the 1970s, King was teamed with members of The Bar-Kays and The Movement
The Movement

The Movement may refer to:* The Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s and early 1960s, and subsequently in the late 1960s in the United States, the radical left associated with the counter-culture was sometimes known as 'The Movement' by its members....
 (Isaac Hayes
Isaac Hayes

Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an United Statesn Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s....
's backing group), including bassist James Alexander
James Alexander

James Alexander may refer to:...
 and drummer Willie Hall
Willie Hall (drummer)

Willie Hall is an American drum.Hall was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the father of rapper Gangsta Pat. A prot?g? of Booker T. & the MGs drummer Al Jackson, Jr., Hall played with both The Bar-Kays and Isaac Hayes's band The Movement....
 adding strong Funk
Funk

Funk is an United States Music genre that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music....
 elements to his music. Adding strings and multiple rhythm guitarists, producers Allen Jones
Allen Jones

Allen Jones is the name of:*Allen Jones , Continental Congress delegate*Allen Jones , British pop artist*Allen Jones , American record producer...
 and Henry Bush created a wall of sound that contrasted the sparse, punchy records King made with Booker T. & the MGs. Among these was another signature tune for King with "I'll Play the Blues For You" in 1972.

King influenced many later blues guitarists including Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
, Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
, Mick Taylor
Mick Taylor

Michael "Mick" Kevin Taylor and another performance from the Old Grey Whistle Test seem to be the only material available from this brief collaboration....
, Warren Haynes
Warren Haynes

Warren Haynes is an United States Rock and Blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter of Gov't Mule and long time member of the Allman Brothers Band....
, Mike Bloomfield
Mike Bloomfield

Michael Bernard Bloomfield , an United States musician, guitarist, and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation entirely on his instrumental prowess....
, Gary Moore
Gary Moore

Gary Moore is a Northern Irish guitarist. In a career dating back to the 1960s, he has played with artists including Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II, Greg Lake and the Blues-rock band Skid Row , as well as having a successful solo career....
, Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh

Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an United States guitarist, songwriter, and rock musician. He has been a member of three successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm , and The Eagles....
 (The James Gang
James Gang

James Gang were a rock music band formed in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio in 1966. Though the band wasn't a huge commercial success, the fame garnered by guitarist Joe Walsh has since made the group more notable....
 guitarist spoke at King's funeral), and especially Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan was an United States blues-rock guitarist, whose broad appeal made him an influential electric blues guitarist. To date, a total of 18 albums of Vaughan's work have been released....
, who also covered many of King's songs. He also had a profound impact on contemporaries Albert Collins
Albert Collins

Albert Collins was a blues guitarist, singer and musician. He had many nicknames, such as "The Ice Man", "The Master of the Telecaster" and "The Razor Blade"....
 and Otis Rush
Otis Rush

Otis Rush is a blues music musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound, jazz-style arpeggios and long bent notes....
. Clapton has said that his work on the 1967 Cream
Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
 hit "Strange Brew" and throughout the album Disraeli Gears
Disraeli Gears

Disraeli Gears is the second album by United Kingdom blues-rock group Cream . It was released in November 1967 and went on to reach #5 on the United Kingdom album chart....
 was inspired by King.

King died on December 21 1992 from a heart attack
Myocardial infarction

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 in Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

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, Tennessee
Tennessee

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.

Discography


Albums

  • 1962 The Big Blues
    The Big Blues

    The Big Blues is a Blues album by Albert King, released in 1962 by King Records. Featuring mostly songs composed by Albert King himself, this was his first album and the only one before he signed with Stax Records, where he would record most albums along his career....
    , King Records
    King Records (USA)

    King Records is an United States record label, started in 1943 by Syd Nathan and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. At first it specialized in country music, at the time still known as "hillbilly music." King advertised, "If it's a King, It's a Hillbilly -- If it's a Hillbilly, it's a King." One of the label's most important hits was "I'm Usi...
  • 1967 Born Under a Bad Sign
    Born Under a Bad Sign

    Born Under a Bad Sign is a blues album by Albert King, recorded between 1966 and 1967,and released in 1967 by Stax Records. This was the first album Albert King recorded on Stax, and the title song became a blues standard....
    , Stax Records
    Stax Records

    Stax Records is an USA record label founded in 1957, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing Gospel music, funk, jazz, and blues recordings....
  • 1968 Live Wire/Blues Power
    Live Wire/Blues Power

    Live Wire/Blues Power is a Blues album by Albert King, recorded livein June 1968 at the The Fillmore. This was Albert King's first live album....
    , Stax Records
  • 1969 Years Gone By
    Years Gone By

    Years Gone By is a Blues album by Albert King....
    , Stax Records
  • 1969 King Of The Blues Guitar, Atlantic Records
    Atlantic Records

    Atlantic Records is an United States record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz. Long one of the most important American independent labels, Atlantic now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group, which consolidated Atlantic Records and the Elektra Entertainment Group into one...
  • 1970 Blues For Elvis - King Does The King's Things
    Blues for Elvis - King Does the King's Things

    Blues For Elvis - King Does The King's Things is a Blues album by Albert King.The songs in this album are versions of songs previously recorded by Elvis Presley....
    , Stax Records
  • 1971 Lovejoy
    Lovejoy (album)

    Lovejoy is a Blues album by Albert King....
    , Stax Records
  • 1972 I'll Play The Blues For You
    I'll Play the Blues for You

    I'll Play The Blues For You is a Blues album by Albert King released in 1972....
    , Stax Records
  • 1973 Blues At Sunset
    Blues at Sunset

    Blues at Sunset is a Blues album by Albert King, recorded live atWattstax and at the Montreux Jazz Festival ,and released in 1973. Additional material recorded at the 1973 Montreux festival would be released in...
    , Stax Records
  • 1973 Blues At Sunrise
    Blues at Sunrise

    Blues at Sunrise is a Blues album by Albert King, recorded live atthe Montreux Jazz Festival ,and released in 1973. Material recorded on the 1973 Montreux festival was also released in...
    , Stax Records
  • 1974 I Wanna Get Funky
    I Wanna Get Funky

    I Wanna Get Funky is a Blues album by Albert King, recorded in 1972and released in 1974....
    , Stax Records
  • 1974 Montreux Festival
    Montreux Festival

    Montreux Festival is a Blues album by Albert King, Chico Hamilton andLittle Milton, recorded live in July 1, 1973 at the Montreux Jazz Festival....
    , Stax Records
  • 1974 The Blues Don't Change
    The Blues Don't Change

    The Blues Don't Change is a Blues album by Albert King released in 1974. Note, also released by Stax in 1977 as "The Pinch"....
    , Stax Records
  • 1974 Funky London, Stax Records
  • 1976 Albert, Tomato Records
  • 1976 Truckload Of Lovin' , Tomato Records
  • 1977 I'll Play the Blues For You, Tomato Records (with John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker

    John Lee Hooker was an influential United States post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County, Mississippi near Clarksdale, Mississippi....
    )
  • 1977 King Albert, Tomato Records
  • 1979 New Orleans Heat, Tomato Records
  • 1979 Chronicle, Stax Records (with Little Milton
    Little Milton

    Milton "Little Milton" Campbell, Jr. was a blues and Soul music vocalist and guitarist best known for his hits "Grits Ain't Groceries" and "We're Gonna Make It." Most popular in 1960s, he became one of the lesser known greats of the genre, combining traditional lyrical structure with smoother production....
    )
  • 1983 San Francisco '83, (Recorded March 2-10 1983) Fantasy Records
    Fantasy Records

    Fantasy Records is a United States based record label, which was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label....
  • 1983 Crosscut Saw: Albert King In San Francisco, Stax Records
  • 1984 I'm In A Phone Booth, Baby, Stax Records
  • 1986 The Best Of Albert King, Stax Records
  • 1986 The Lost Session, Stax Records (with John Mayall)
  • 1989 Let's Have A Natural Ball, Modern Blues Recordings
  • 1989 Live, Rhino Records
  • 1990 Door To Door, Chess Records
    Chess Records

    Chess Records was an United States record label based in Chicago, Illinois. It specialized in blues, R&B, gospel music, early rock and roll, and occasional jazz releases....
  • 1990 Wednesday Night In San Francisco
    Wednesday Night in San Francisco

    Wednesday Night In San Francisco is a Blues album by Albert King, recorded livein 1968 at the The Fillmore. This album, together with Thursday Night In San Francisco, contains leftovers recorded live on the same dates as Live Wire/Blues Power....
    , Stax Records
  • 1990 Thursday Night in San Francisco
    Thursday Night in San Francisco

    Thursday Night In San Francisco is a Blues album by Albert King, recorded livein 1968 at the The Fillmore. This album, together with Wednesday Night In San Francisco, contains leftovers recorded live on the same dates as Live Wire/Blues Power....
    , Stax Records
  • 1991 Red House, Essential
  • 1992 Roadhouse Blues, RSP Records


Posthumous releases

  • 1993 The Ultimate Collection, Rhino Records
  • 1993 So Many Roads, Charly Blues Masters
  • 1994 The Tomato Years, Tomato Records
  • 1994 Funky London, Stax Records
  • 1994 Chicago 1978, Charly Records
  • 1995 Mean Mean Blues, King Records
  • 1995 Live On Memory Lane, Monad Records
  • 1996 Hard Bargain
    Hard Bargain

    Hard Bargain is a Blues album by Albert King, released in 1996 withouttakes and previously unreleased material recorded between 1966 and 1972....
    , Stax Records
  • 1997 Born Under A Bad Sign & Other Hits, Flashback Records
  • 1998 Rainin' In California, Wolf Records
  • 1999 Blues Power, Stax Records
  • 1999 Live In Canada, Charly Records
  • 1999 The Very Best Of Albert King, Rhino Records
  • 1999 A Truckload Of Lovin': The Best Of Albert King, Recall Records (UK)
  • 1999 Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session, Stax Records (with Stevie Ray Vaughan
    Stevie Ray Vaughan

    Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan was an United States blues-rock guitarist, whose broad appeal made him an influential electric blues guitarist. To date, a total of 18 albums of Vaughan's work have been released....
    )
  • 2001 Guitar Man, Fuel 2000 Records
  • 2001 I Get Evil: Classic Blues Collected, Music Club Records
  • 2001 More Big Blues Of Albert King, Ace Records
  • 2001 Godfather Of The Blues: His Last European Tour, P-Vine Records
    P-Vine Records

    P-Vine Records is a record label started by Blues Interactions, Inc., a firm in Tokyo, Japan established in 1975 in music by Yasufumi Higurashi and Akira Kochi....
  • 2002 Blue On Blues, Fuel 2000 Records
  • 2003 Talkin' Blues, Thirsty Ear Records
  • 2003 Blues From The Road, Fuel 2000 Records
  • 2003 Live '69, Stax Records
  • 2004 The Complete King & Bobbin Recordings, Collectables Records
  • 2006 Stax Profiles, Stax Records
  • 2006 Albert King's King's Jump, Charly Records
  • 2007 Heat Of The Blues, Music Avenue


Recording footnotes

  • Despite the same title, the 1972 and 1977 albums I'll Play The Blues For You differ in content, and the later one is a collection of previously released songs by King and John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker

    John Lee Hooker was an influential United States post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County, Mississippi near Clarksdale, Mississippi....
    .
  • In Session (1999) was actually recorded in 1983 with Stevie Ray Vaughan
    Stevie Ray Vaughan

    Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan was an United States blues-rock guitarist, whose broad appeal made him an influential electric blues guitarist. To date, a total of 18 albums of Vaughan's work have been released....
    . An outtake from the sessions not used for the 1999 CD
    Compact Disc

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    , "Born Under A Bad Sign", appears on Stax Records' compilation
    Compilation album

    A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, source or subject matter....
     Albert King: Stax Profiles.
  • Talkin' Blues (2003) was recorded live in February 1978, and includes interviews with King.
  • King played guitar, and sang on the Finnish
    Finland

    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
     rock and blues guitarist, Albert Järvinen's solo
    Solo (music)

    In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer. In practice this means a number of different things, depending on the type of music and the context....
     1990 album, Braindamage or Still Alive?.
  • King also was a guest on the 1990 album release by Gary Moore
    Gary Moore

    Gary Moore is a Northern Irish guitarist. In a career dating back to the 1960s, he has played with artists including Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II, Greg Lake and the Blues-rock band Skid Row , as well as having a successful solo career....
     entitled Still Got the Blues
    Still Got the Blues

    Still Got the Blues is a 1990 album by guitarist Gary Moore. Prior to this album Moore's work had consisted of predominantly jazz-fusion with Colosseum II and Rock music and hard rock styles including his work with Skid Row , Thin Lizzy, G-Force as well as a large repertoire of solo work....
    .


DVD and videos

  • 1995 Maintenance Shop Blues (VHS), Yazoo
  • 2001 Godfather Of The Blues: His Last European Tour DVD, P-Vine Records
  • 2004 Live In Sweden, Image Entertainment


Sources

  • Bowman, Rob
    Rob Bowman (music writer)

    Rob Bowman is a contemporary Canadian professor of ethnomusicology and a music writer.Apart from his work as director of York University's Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology & Musicology in Toronto, he has written many liner notes, studies and books on popular music....
     (1997) Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records, Schirmer Books. ISBN 0825672279


External links

  • , Greg Johnson, BluesNotes, September 1999
  • at Rolling Stone
    Rolling Stone

    Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J....