1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #54. B. B. King - Live At The Regal (1965)

B. B. King - Live At The Regal (1965)

Label - ABC
Producer – Johnny Pate
Art Direction – Uncredited
Nationality - USA
Running Time – 34:46

Track Listing (standout tracks listed in bold)

1. Everyday I Have The Blues
2. Sweet Little Angel
3. It's My Own Fault
4. How Blue Can You Get
5. Please Love Me
6. You Upset Me Baby
7. Worry Worry
8. Woke Up This Mornin'
9. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
10. Help The Poor

Good times blues in a live setting with B.B. King! Can it get any better than that! This is a great record. This recording captured at the Regal in Chicago is perhaps King at his best. With a nice horn section and rolling blues shuffles he treats the audience (which at some points shriek after he delivers each line) to a blistering set of some of his finest hits. The backing band is also razor-sharp which helps so much with blues artists who sets wildly very from performance to performance.
I’ve always seen and ‘elder’ King on TV and different places so I was a bit taken back as to how strong his voice was! Shifting between falsetto and his regular range with ease. One standout track is "How Blue Can You Get," where the ending just builds with excitement. Not surprisingly King’s guitar (dubbed ‘Lucille’) is all over this record, and his playing here is just top notch. According to a 2003 listing in Rolling Stone, B.B. King is the greatest living guitarist, and ranked 3rd among the "100 greatest guitarists of all time" (behind late Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman).
‘Live at the Regal’ is an absolutely necessary for fans of B.B. King or just blues music in general, and is highly recommended.


You can purchase the CD here.

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