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The Great B.B. King [Ace] (Import)

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The Great B.B. King (Import) B.B. King CD
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  • Artist: B.B. King
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2005
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 029667008624
  • Item Number: ACE700862
  • Release date: 10/25/2005
  • 1. Sweet Sixteen, Pts. 1 & 2
  • 2. Quit My Baby
  • 3. I Was Blind
  • 4. What Can I Do
  • 5. Some Day Somewhere
  • 6. Sneakin' Around
  • 7. Ten Long Years
  • 8. Be Careful with a Fool
  • 9. Whole Lotta' Love
  • 10. Days of Old
  • 11. Young Dreamers [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
  • 12. Bim Bam [Bonus Track]
  • 13. Trouble in Mind [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
  • 14. Down Now [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
  • 15. Broke and Hungry [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
  • 16. Shotgun Blues [Bonus Track]
  • 17. What a Way to Spend the Night [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
  • 18. A Woman Don't Care [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
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The Great B.B. King [Ace] (Import) by B.B. King on CD


Released in early 1960, the LP The Great B.B. King was actually a budget-priced compilation of songs he'd recorded for the Modern label over the past five or so years. This CD reissue nearly doubles the length of the original album with eight mostly previously unreleased bonus cuts, as well as adding historical liner notes. Of the ten songs found on the original The Great B.B. King, four ("Sweet Sixteen," "Ten Long Years," "Sneakin' Around," and "Whole Lotta' Love") had been big R&B hits, with "Sweet Sixteen" getting all the way up to number two; a fifth track, "Be Careful with a Fool," had made the bottom of the pop listings without showing up on the R&B charts at all. The emotional ballad "Sweet Sixteen" (actually a cover of a Big Joe Turner song) is presented here in all its six-minute, two-part glory. While the most of the rest of the LP doesn't scale the same heights, it's a respectable mix of brassy shuffles and slow tunes with more than a tinge of doo wop, King's guitar work on "Whole Lotta' Love" ranking among his most stinging. Of the eight bonus tracks, only "Bim Bam" (an anomalous 1956 rock & roll novelty single) and the Lightnin' Hopkins number "Shotgun Blues" (which showed up on a 1969 compilation LP) were previously released. The other six tracks are also not always typical of King's most celebrated style, including as they do the violin-drenched "Young Dreamers" and the much-covered ballad "Trouble in Mind," though the rest are in his more standard electric blues approach. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi
  • Artist: B.B. King
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2005
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 029667008624
  • Item Number: ACE700862
  • Release date: 10/25/2005
  • Label: Ace
  • Genre: Blues
  • Style: Modern Electric Blues, Memphis Blues, Regional Blues
  • Album Time: 53:54

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  • The Great B.B. King (Import) B.B. King CD
The Great B.B. King (Import) B.B. King CD