B. B. King

Easy Listening Blues (180 Gram + 4 Bonus Tracks) (772108 LP)

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Easy Listening Blues (180 Gram + 4 Bonus Tracks)

B. B. King

Waxtime

8436542019941

LPS 146217

772108 LP

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Easy Listening Blues (180 Gram + 4 Bonus Tracks)

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LP 14,98 €

INCLUDES FREE MP3 ALBUM DOWNLOAD Plus 4 BONUS TRACKS

This quintessential WaxTime release includes one of B.B. King’s earliest albums: "Easy Listening Blues" (1962), originally issued on the Crown label. This all-instrumental LP marks B.B. King’s tenth budget-priced album. That title is a bit misleading, considering that King, who might be smooth and urbane in some respects, rarely recorded music that could be categorized as “easy listening”. King plays here with his usual authority, making occasional nods toward the rock & roll twist craze on cuts like “Night Long” and “Hully Gully”. He is backed on the album by Lloyd Glenn on piano, Maxwell Davis on organ, Ralph Hamilton on bass, and Ted Curry on drums (no horns were booked for the dates).

This collector’s edition also includes 4 bonus tracks from the same period, consisting of
an entertaining mix of booting R&B, blues ballads and dynamic instrumentals. Two of them, “3 O’Clock Stomp” and “Mashed Potato Twist”, come from a Kent single, while “Talkin’ the Blues” and “Boogie Rock” are 1955 recordings for the RPM label.

PERSONNEL:

B.B KING, guitar on all tracks, plus:

MAXWELL DAVIS, organ
RALPH HAMILTON, bass
LLOYD GLENN, piano
TED CURRY, drums
Los Angeles, California, March 22, 1961

BONUS TRACKS:

SIDE A [6-7] B.B. KING, guitar; BOBBY FORTE, tenor sax
Other personnel and location unknown
Possibly recorded in Los Angeles, Summer 1961

SIDE B [6-7] B.B. KING, guitar; MAXWELL DAVIS, tenor sax.
Other personnel and location unknown
Recorded between 1955-1956

SIDE A:

01. EASY LISTENING BLUES
02. BLUES FOR ME
03. NIGHT LONG
04. CONFESSIN’
05. DON’T TOUCH
06. 3 O’CLOCK STOMP (aka POONTWANGIE)
07. MASHED POTATO TWIST (aka 38TH STREET BLUES

SIDE B:

01. SLOW WALK (aka SLOW BURN)
02. WALKIN'
03. HULLY GULLY TWIST
04. SHOUTIN' THE BLUES
05. RAMBLER
06. BOOGIE ROCK (aka HOUSE ROCKER)
07. TALKIN' THE BLUES