CD-Charts Position 91

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Live at the Apollo

CD-Charts > Music > Memphis Blues
by: B.B. King

Release Date January 01, 1993

CD-Charts Position 92

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Live at San Quentin

CD-Charts > Music > Memphis Blues
by: Bb King

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CD-Charts Position 93
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Riding With the King [DVD AUDIO]

CD-Charts > Music > Memphis Blues
by: B.B. King & Eric Clapton

Release Date August 26, 2002
I really wanted to like this album. Two icons of R&B getting together again to cover some classic tracks. Unfortunately, this album is anaesthetic, tame and bland. Maybe 4 out of the 12 tracks are worth listening to. Clapton mumbles away in the background and spoils perfectly good music with muffled vocals and most of the track choice is at best uninspired.

Probably the notable exception is "Key to the Highway", which, along with "Riding with the King" is among the few highlights of this album. The musicianship is brilliant but it's so TAME!

What this pair need to to is get up on stage with George Thorogood and hammer it out instead of sitting in their rocking chairs telling everyone what fine guitarists they are while ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 94
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How Blue Can You Get

CD-Charts > Music > Memphis Blues
by: B.B. King

Release Date February 01, 1994
I really wanted to like this album. Two icons of R&B getting together again to cover some classic tracks. Unfortunately, this album is anaesthetic, tame and bland. Maybe 4 out of the 12 tracks are worth listening to. Clapton mumbles away in the background and spoils perfectly good music with muffled vocals and most of the track choice is at best uninspired.

Probably the notable exception is "Key to the Highway", which, along with "Riding with the King" is among the few highlights of this album. The musicianship is brilliant but it's so TAME!

What this pair need to to is get up on stage with George Thorogood and hammer it out instead of sitting in their rocking chairs telling everyone what fine guitarists they are while ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 95
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Anthology

CD-Charts > Music > Memphis Blues
by: B.B. King

Release Date December 04, 2000
This extensive anthology provides a very thorough overview of B.B. King's career after 1962. The tracks list is stronger than on the good-but-not-great "His Definitive Greatest Hits", and "The Anthology 1962-98" wisely omits completely inessental items like King's duets with U2 and Gary Moore.

The compilers lean heavily towards King's 60s and 70s material, with only a few later songs, and virtually all of his best 60s and 70s songs are here - songs like "Sneakin' Around", "Paying The Cost To Be The Boss", "Why I Sing The Blues", "Help The Poor", the crossover hit "The Thrill Is Gone", and King's version of Robert Nighthawk's "Sweet Little Angel".

His earlier Flair sides should have been here, too, though, and the fact that 50s classics ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 96
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Members Only [Us Import]

CD-Charts > Music > Memphis Blues
by: Bobby Bland

Release Date December 23, 1999
You build up a record collection only for another piece of technology to come along and make it all obsolete!!! I started collecting Bobby Bland records! around the time "The California Album" came out. I can't remember where I heard it, but I was just hooked after hearing "This time I'm gone for good". The "Dreamer" album which followed convinced me that here was a voice like no other. I went back and bought examples from his back catalogue (some real gems) and continued to buy everything he released for at least the next 15 years. I bought some real cheesy albums! But on every album there was always one, possibly two tracks worth the awful album covers or some really unsuitable cover Bobby B had decided to do (e.g. Somewhere over the rainbow). When he made his ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 97
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Rock Me Baby

CD-Charts > Music > Memphis Blues
by: B.B. King

Release Date February 17, 2003
You build up a record collection only for another piece of technology to come along and make it all obsolete!!! I started collecting Bobby Bland records! around the time "The California Album" came out. I can't remember where I heard it, but I was just hooked after hearing "This time I'm gone for good". The "Dreamer" album which followed convinced me that here was a voice like no other. I went back and bought examples from his back catalogue (some real gems) and continued to buy everything he released for at least the next 15 years. I bought some real cheesy albums! But on every album there was always one, possibly two tracks worth the awful album covers or some really unsuitable cover Bobby B had decided to do (e.g. Somewhere over the rainbow). When he made his ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 98
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Tin Pan Alley

CD-Charts > Music > Memphis Blues
by: Little Milton

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You build up a record collection only for another piece of technology to come along and make it all obsolete!!! I started collecting Bobby Bland records! around the time "The California Album" came out. I can't remember where I heard it, but I was just hooked after hearing "This time I'm gone for good". The "Dreamer" album which followed convinced me that here was a voice like no other. I went back and bought examples from his back catalogue (some real gems) and continued to buy everything he released for at least the next 15 years. I bought some real cheesy albums! But on every album there was always one, possibly two tracks worth the awful album covers or some really unsuitable cover Bobby B had decided to do (e.g. Somewhere over the rainbow). When he made his ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 99
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Classics

CD-Charts > Music > Memphis Blues
by: Bb King

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You build up a record collection only for another piece of technology to come along and make it all obsolete!!! I started collecting Bobby Bland records! around the time "The California Album" came out. I can't remember where I heard it, but I was just hooked after hearing "This time I'm gone for good". The "Dreamer" album which followed convinced me that here was a voice like no other. I went back and bought examples from his back catalogue (some real gems) and continued to buy everything he released for at least the next 15 years. I bought some real cheesy albums! But on every album there was always one, possibly two tracks worth the awful album covers or some really unsuitable cover Bobby B had decided to do (e.g. Somewhere over the rainbow). When he made his ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 100
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Smokestack Lightning - Live in Germany 1964

CD-Charts > Music > Memphis Blues
by: Howlin' Wolf

Release Date October 01, 2001
The music on this CD is really, really great...smouldering renditions of songs like "Forty-Four", "Dust My Broom", and "All My Life", and Wolf is backed by perhaps the finest electric blues band ever assembled. But this CD is just a truncated version of the sixteen-track live album "Killing Floor" (ASIN:B00005AWDR), and while the fidelity may be a little bit better, there is certainly no reason to get this album and not the longer version from Magnum Records.