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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This 1973 live album brings together five sides from a 1972 concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with four sides from Albert King's 1973 performance at the Montreux Blues and Jazz Festival. King is in fine form on both sets; the opening "Match Box Blues" is slightly truncated, but we get the full version during the Montreux performance, and virtually everything else is excellent. Tight, focused performances of songs like "Got To Be Some Changes Made", and "Breaking Up Somebody's Home", and the sizzling instrumental "Watermelon Man" are among the highlights, and the Velvet Bulldozer himself plays some truly inspired lead guitar on several of these tracks. Nobody… Read more
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This album consists of performances recorded during the same series of concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium which produced the classic 1968 LP "Live Wire/Blues Power", and it is hardly less wonderful. The opening track is shamelessly titled "Watermelon Man", but it is really just an introduction and half a minute of riffing (so don't buy that particular mp3). There are in fact no overlaps at all between "Live Wire/Blues Power" and "Wednesday Night in San Francisco", or between either of those two and the third volume in this unofficial series, the equally enjoyable "Thursday Night in San Francisco". Albert 'King' Nelson is backed by a tight four-piece band, no horns, and he… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This 1969 set clocks in at a not-very-generous 36 minutes, but that's the LP age for you. It's quite a nice, mellow set which emphasises Frederick Christian "King"'s passionate vocals, and King is backed by a tight band which includes both piano and organ, and occationally by a well-scored six-man horn ensemble as well. He is being cast primarily as a singer on many of these tracks, Freddie King is...his normally stinging lead guitar lines take something of a back seat on songs like "It's Too Late, She's Gone" and "Let Me Down Easy". But fans shouldn't worry unduly; most of these twelve tracks feature plenty of guitar goodness, like the sizzling fills and solos on King's own… Read more
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You know, even if you own a thousand CDs, and even if you go through your shelves once in a while and discard those that you know you're just never going to listen to again anyway, you'll still be playing favourites when the time comes to decide what to listen to in your car on the way to work.&hellip Read more
Well…it was as though it would never end, but here we are. The 13th and final guide to the blues on CD and DVD.
Parts 1-5 focused on electric postwar blues, and then came the acoustic stuff, mostly prewar sides, and two guides to live albums. And now we’re finally going to finish with the&hellip Read more
Hello again, and kudos if you’ve actually read the previous eleven guides as well.
This is the twelfth and the second-to-last one, and it is dedicated mainly to latter-day blues musicians, including the young white enthusiasts who picked up the guitar in the 60s and 70s, inspired by men like Muddy&hellip Read more
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