B. B. King

INCLUDES FREE MP3 ALBUM DOWNLOAD Plus 2 BONUS TRACKS

This quintessential LP edition includes King’s superlative album, More B.B. King, originally issued in late 1961, and long unavailable on vinyl. It marked his seventh budget-priced LP on the Bihari brothers’ Crown label (a subsidiary of Modern Records). The majority of the tracks were recorded just before B.B. King changed record labels from Kent to ABC Paramount in 1962 (the exceptions being “Shut Your Mouth” and “Baby, Look at You,” which date back to the mid-’50s). The album is an entertaining mix of booting R&B, blues ballads and instrumentals, drawn primarily from the Kent singles of the period. Stylistically, the compositions embrace mature, string-laden ballads alongside straight R&B shuffles and urban blues. These are quality recordings orchestrated by the great Maxwell Davis.

In addition to the original LP, this WaxTime collector’s release includes 2 bonus tracks from those same sessions: the ballad “Lonely and Blue” and the joyful blues “Jump with You Baby.”

PERSONNEL:

B.B. KING, vocals and guitar, plus:

The Maxwell Davis Orchestra.
Featuring Maxwell Davis, Jack McVea, Charles Waller, Lorenzo Holden, Bumps Myers, Maurice Simon (ts),
Jewell L. Grant (as), Floyd Turnham (bs), Jack “Vernon” Porter (tp),
Red Callender, Ralph Hamilton or Billy Hadnot (b), Willard McDaniel (p),
Jesse Sailes or Jesse Price (d). Arranged and conducted by Maxwell Davis.
Recorded at different locations between 1953 and 1960.

SIDE 1

01 BAD CASE OF LOVE
02 GET OUT OF HERE
03 BAD LUCK SOUL
04 SHUT YOUR MOUTH
05 BABY, LOOK AT YOU
06 LONELY AND BLUE (*)

SIDE 2

01 YOU’RE BREAKING MY HEART
02 MY REWARD
03 DON’T CRY ANYMORE
04 BLUES FOR ME (aka GROOVIN’ TWIST)
05 (AIN’T THAT) JUST LIKE A WOMAN
06 JUMP WITH YOU BABY (*)

(*) BONUS TRACKS