B.B. King - One Kind Favor
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Free Music Review: Another Great Recording by the Great B.B. King
Hit: 5 Stars
There is a lot to admire about B.B. King-his beautiful guitar playing, incredible singing, exciting showmanship, commitment to making good music, humor and wit, and elevated sense of kindness and humanity.
Approaching his mid-eighties, it would be easy to quit the road and take a well-deserved rest. But B.B. King continues to play music all across the country because making music is his lifeblood and passion.
Every song on this CD is superb, and the recording offers a nice mixture of blues shades and moods. "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" is a soulful reworking of the old folk blues (though not a 12-bar) number of the same title. "How Many More Years" is a 12-bar urban blues standard. "Get These Blues Off Me" is a 12-bar minor-key blues in the vein of "The Thrill is Gone." "Sitting on Top of the World" is a traditional shuffle blues, sometimes interpreted with jazzed-up harmonies, but played here with straight urban blues changes. "Tomorrow Night" is a typical Lonnie Johnson blues weeper, a down-in-the-dumps blues story that everyone has experienced at one time or another.
All the songs are delivered in the trademark B.B. King style, with tasteful, melodic guitar fill-ins and solos, clean horn lines, and expert rhythm section and piano playing. A lot of inexperienced blues bands play "over the top" by adding too much. The pros playing on this recording show how to do it the right way. A wise man does not need to use many words to make a point.
I have been listening to B.B. King for decades and consider this to be as good as any recording he has ever made-and he's made a lot of good ones. Highly recommended. And if you have not seen B.B. King in concert, do try to catch one of his live shows.
Free Music Review: LONG LIVE THE 'KING'!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
First off, to the 2 people that submitted reviews...do you people realize that this space is for reviewing an album by B.B. King??? Where the hell have you been??? Go back under a rock ok?
I just got done listening to 'One Kind Favor' and all I can say is, B.B., please make music until you are 100...this album is OUTSTANDING. T-Bone Burnet, the album's producer did a phenomenal job re-creating the sound of B.B.'s 40's and 50's music. The horns give the music and after-hours feel, and B.B. has a great band featuring notables like Nathan East (Clapton) on stand up bass, and Jim Keltner on drums.
Despite being 82 when this was recorded, you'd never know it by the way B.B's voice sounds. He can still let it rip when he wants to, like on 'Waiting For Your Call' or 'My Love Is Down'. Other times he and the band sound like they're having a ball on cuts like 'Blues Before Sunrise', 'Midnight Blues' and 'Backwater Blues'.
Even at his age, B.B.'s playing still sounds fresh and exciting. He may not sting like in the old days, but his notes still can both soothe and exhilarate.
The real keeper on this disc is the Lonnie Johnson number 'Tommorow Night' where's B.B.'s voice really hits home, and also features a great sax break.
The great thing about this album is you can sit back on a summer day with a cold beer or pour a glass of wine on a cold winter night and just let the mood and music take you away. We can only wish muscians half B.B's age would make music this good. As the saying goes, 'if you can't dig this you got a hole in your soul!'
Amen brother!!
Free Music Review: Possibly the best studio album of his career
Hit: 5 Stars
Riley B. King (aka B.B. King) is like a fine wine. The older he gets the better he gets. Rolling Stone magazine called this CD a masterpiece. I must say I have to concurr. This is in my mind one of the finest blues albums I have ever heard.
This album is pretty much what you would expect from B.B, King. He has always been known for his very clean guitar playing. He is like Eric Clapton, in that he phrases his guitar solos superbly. The difference with this album is, his guitar playing is the best its ever been. He is at the top of his game.
He has surrounded himself with Nathan East who has worked with Eric Clapton on and off for 25 years or better. He also has Jim Keltner who has worked with John Lennon and George Harrison among many others over the years. Keltner has always been in demand. He also has Dr. John on piano
B.B. does Blind Lemon Jefferson's, See that my grave is kept clean, as well as John Lee Hooker's, Blues before sunrise. Waiting for your call by T Bone Walker and Sitting on top of the world, by the Mississippi Sheiks among others.
All of the songs are covers from other blues artists.
This is the blues the way that only the master B.B. King can play. This is for any blues fan and certainly any fan of B.B. King.
At his advanced age you have to wonder how much he has left. If this is infact his swan song, he saved the best for Live B.B. King
Free Music Review: Why he's KING
Hit: 5 Stars
I shouldn't be blabbering here. The best thing is just to let the music speak for itself. But since you're already come this far, here we go.
From the first cooking drums with BB adding his licks on See That My Grave Is Kept Clean you know you're in for a treat. And what a treat this is!
Sure, BB had some nice stuff out lately, with all those folks playing along or having him play on theirs. But if you ask me there's nothing compared to him doing his own thing.
That is what this is. B.B. at his best. Not too fast, drums cooking in the background, sometimes pushing things a little, bass humming and plucking the pickin' rythm, keys charming Lucille, horns pulling and pushing, in short, this is it!
Need names? Just a few: Jim Keltner, Jay Bellerose drums & percussion, Neil Larsen B-3, Nathan East acoustic bass, Mike Elizondo bass, Dr. John piano, Johnny Lee Schell guitar, and of course BB himself on vocals and lead guitar - with T Bone Burnett producing.
The booklet pictures are nice too. BB looking out over the (what seems like the Mississippi near Memphis?) river, lonely railroad tracks, evening sky.
The whole set gives you the feeling of being in the studio with BB and his gang, somewhere way down south, enjoying the music.
Perfect!
Free Music Review: This Could Be His Swan Song?
Hit: 5 Stars
In the introduction for B.B. King At The Cook County Jail recording, the lady said that "B.B. King is known as the king of the blues and the chairman of all of the blues singers." That was true in 1971 and still rings true today.
We have lost many of the blues legends, but the influence that BB has left is beginning to resonate and is metamorphosed to a new younger generation. Thanks in a large way by Eric Clapton's music and his Crossroads festivals, the torch is being passed to the likes of Derek Trucks, John Mayer and Doyle Bramhall II the blues will continue into the 21st century.
I have followed him since my late teens (a LONG time ago) and this SOLO CD is above average for the past decade. His recording with Clapton was great too, but here he is with a great little combo of talented artists that anyone would be lucky to have back them. Dr. John, keyboards, drummer extraordinaire Jim Keltner and ex-Clapton bassist, Nathan East.
Each and every track IS B.B. King, in his distinct vein of the blues. I pray that he'll be with us for many more years, but with the health issues he has had, this is an important disc or MP3 to own.