B.B. KING - King Of The Blues (2024 Reissue with 2 Bonus Tracks) - LP - 180g Red Vinyl [APR 12]

LP - Limited Edition 180g Red Vinyl featuring the complete album + 2 Bonus tracks. 

For more than half a century, B. B. King defined the blues for a worldwide audience. Since he started recording in the1940s, he released over fifty albums, many of them classics. This edition contains one of B.B. King’s finest albums, the masterpiece King of the Blues, originally issued around May 1960 by the Crown imprint. His modern style, which combined rock & roll and R&B with the jump blues, is fully developed here, and his consistency from track to track is remarkable.

PERSONNEL:
B.B. KING, vocals and guitar, plus:
Johnny Board (ts), Lawrence Burdine (as), Barney Hubert (bs), Kenny Sands, Henry Boozier, or John Browning (tp), Pluma Davis (tb), Lloyd Glenn (p), Marshall York (b), Ted Curry or Sonny Freeman (d).
Recorded at Radio Recorders studios, Hollywood,California, March 1960.

(*) BONUS TRACKS: “The Woman I Love” and “We Can’t Make It”:
B.B. King (voc & g), Johnny Board (ts), Lawrence Burdine (as), Kenny Sands (tp), Ralph Hamilton (b), Millard Lee (p), Ted Curry (d). Recorded in Los Angeles, California, 1959.

Tracklist: 

Side One
1 I’ve Got A Right To Love My Baby [3:15]
2 What Way To Go [3:08]
3 Long Nights (The Feeling They Call The Blues) [3:31]
4 Feel Like A Million [3:33]
5 I’ll Survive [2:41]
6 The Woman I Love [3:04] *

Side Two
1 Good Man Gone Bad [2:47]
2 If I Lost You [2:42]
3 You’re On The Top [2:51]
4 Partin’ Time [3:01]
5 I’m King [2:21]
6 We Can’t Make It [2:38] *

* = Bonus Tracks