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Music : I'll Play the Blues for You
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I'll Play the Blues for You by: Albert King |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0025218851329 Label: Stax Manufacturer: Stax Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Stax Release Date: October 25, 1990 Studio: Stax Sales Rank: 39926 MPN: 8513 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - OOO OOO OOOI feel like Arnold Horshak when this disc comes up. For me this is the definitive Albert King. I'll Play The Blues For You, Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home, Laundromat Blues, and Don't Burn Down The Bridge. Albert excels here. Makes me Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home. That's because 'Girl, I just want to know you.' Rating: - Excellent Blues Album!This is a phenomenal blues album by the late great Albert King. Easily one of my favorites. Rating: - Albert King's Most Experimental Album.When the late great Albert King signed with Stax records in the 60's, they really didn't know what to do with him. Like Aretha Franklin at Atlantic (which had a hold on Stax in the 1960s). They teamed him up with Booker T and the MGs to produce a unique soul based blues that no one had ever heard. He had had several winning LPs for Stax and then put out this one. "I'll Play the Blues for You" is a concept LP (Like Issac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul). King re-invents himself to fit into the emerging soul-funk grooves of the 1970s. However, his guitar playing is about the best it ever got! "I'll Play The Blues For You (Parts One and Two") showcases his singing, talking blues ability and guitar. It features the only use of his famous (to ... Read More: Rating:  - Fine, soulful 70s bluesThere are no fewer than three albums by Albert King titled "I'll Play The Blues For You" - a 1999 album which also includes some sides by John Lee Hooker, a 1977 live recording, and this one, which is the original, or at least the first. Released on Stax in 1972, "I'll Play The Blues For You" doesn't quit match his magnificent second LP, "Born Under A Bad Sign", but it is a very enjoyable, melodious blues record, even if it lacks the raw, gritty power of men like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. Albert King's soulful vocals are supremely smooth and confident all the way through, and this album includes some of his best recordings of the 70s, "I'll Play The Blues For You", "High Cost Of Loving", and "Little Brother (Make A Way)" among ... Read More: Rating: - Serene At The Top of His GameThe title cut alone makes the set worth it - this is the single best piece of music Big Albert ever cut for Stax without the M.G.s, and he bloody well yanks the Bar-Kays into line with every one of his trademark crying guitar notes. It's also almost the last studio album of his career in which he could make the case that while he was keeping step in the modern world he didn't and wouldn't forget the blues. He turns a lesser Marvin Gaye chestnut ("I'll Be Doggone") into greasy Southern-fried blues, and he's so damn charming that you'll forgive him for trying to re-write his classic "Laundromat Blues" as laughably as he does here. If that's the only clinker, so be it - by this point in the game, Big Albert had earned the right to it, and anyway, ... Read More: |
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