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News: Recording

B.B. King & His Orchestra Live Album Reissued on New Acrobat Music Label

B.B. King & His Orchestra Live Album Reissued on New Acrobat Music Label

Concert, recorded at MIDEM in 1983, features King’s classic songs NEW YORK, N.Y. — As part of Acrobat Music’s U.S. label launch, B.B. King’s B.B. King & His Orchestra Live will be released October 21, 2008, marking the recording’s first availability in the U.S. The album was recorded in January 1983 in Cannes during the international ...

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News: Recording

B.B. King Cuts Fifties-Style

B.B. King Cuts Fifties-Style

In the Studio: B.B. King Cuts Fifties-Style Set When producer T Bone Burnett first met with B.B. King, he presented the blues legend with a simple mission statement: “I'd like for you to go back to the Fifties and do some of the stuff as you did it then." At 82, King wondered whether he could ...

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Video

Darling, You Know I Love You

Featuring the music of B.B. King
Duration: 6:10

B.B. King and his band in Japan in 1989, perform an instrumental version of one of his early hits, "Darling, You Know I Love You".
Album

B.B. King & Friends - 80

Label: Crown Records
Released: 2005

Album

Dot Com Blues

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2000
Track listing: Only in It for the Money; 8 Counts for Rita; Strut; C.C. Rider; I Just Wanna Make Love to You; Mood Indigo; Over and Over; Three O'Clock Blues; Dot Com Blues; Mr. Johnson; Tuition Blues; Since I Met You Baby.

Album

King Of The Blues

Label: Crown Records
Released: 2000

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Article: Album Review

B.B. King: Let The Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan

Read "Let The Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan" reviewed by Ed Kopp


B. B. King pays tribute to his late friend Louis Jordan with this swingin' collection of covers.Jordan’s music has not been lacking for attention of late. First, the Broadway show “Five Guys Named Moe" became a smash hit on the strength of his tunes. Then a horde of zoot-suited ex-rockers became Jordan imitators during ...

Album

Blues on the Bayou

Label: MCA
Released: 1999

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Article: Album Review

B.B. King: Blues on the Bayou

Read "Blues on the Bayou" reviewed by Ed Kopp


Last summer I attended a disappointing B.B. King concert in which the blues legend spent most of the show talking instead of playing. Fortunately he plays and sings wonderfully on this release, his best since Blues Summit. B.B. finally lets his excellent road musicians strut their stuff live in a studio setting, with no overdubs and ...


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