Audio CD review:
B.B. King - Live at San Quentin

B.B. King - Live at San Quentin

Band: B.B. King Title: Live at San Quentin Rating: Release Date: 13 March, 2001 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: B.B. King Intro 2: Let The Good Times Roll 3: Every Day I Have The Blues 4: Whole Lotta Loving 5: Sweet Little Angel 6: Never Make A Move Too Soon 7: Into The Night 8: Ain't Nobody's Business 9: The Thrill Is Gone 10: Peace To The World 11: Nobody Loves Me But My Mother 12: Sweet Sixteen 13: Rock Me Baby

Customer Reviews The next best thing B. I have seen B. King live, and he was just amazing - A brilliant musician, a crowd pleaser, and a bundle of energy. He is an amazing performer, and this live c. d. is awesome!! Worthy of any Blues fans collection, "Live at San Quentin" had me wishing I was a fly on the wall at that show. What a performance! Every song here is great, and King doesn't slow down for a minute. Like he says in the album, the blues doesn't mean "blue" as in depressing all the time. I actually listened to the entire c. d. while i was on the treadmill at the gym. It was very upbeat for the most part. A sensational record that is worth buying. Rather than have his whole catalog, I prefer this! It is just masterful! Highly recommended!!. What Live Albums Are All About This is a great album. I concur with the first reviewer. I used to like the Cook County Jail album a lot (and it's good), but this one has it beat. B. B. sounds so fresh, yet totally in control. It's really a classic album. King of the Blues B. Prison performances are sort of a standard for blues singers, and it just doesn't get any better than this -- B. King playing his classics live at the San Quentin Correctional facility. I used to have this cassette, but I played it so much that it popped! Here King is playing to a truly captive audience offering up such classics as "The Thrill is Gone," "Sweet 16," "In the Heat of the Night," and my personal favorite "Nobody Loves Me But My Mother. " In the intro to that last selection King explains to the inmates that while the blues was not just about hard times, some of the tunes could be pretty depressing. "Some of it can be pretty down alley. Like I'm fixing to do right now. I'm going all the way down to the bottom. " Yet he also encourages the audience to go on and boogie off some of the uptempo tracks. This is music from the heart, and you can just feel the soul of the artist. This is the blues -- unvarnished, straight up and raw -- served up by a master of the genre. King broke a few strings on his faithful Lucille during this performance, but he never misses a note. His voice is still clear after all these years and he still knows how to spin a tale through song. He does a few audience participation numbers and banters smoothly with the crowd and the band. This is a fundamental recording, and an important part of my collection. . You can see a complete list of all B.B. King discography, or go back to the B.B. King tabs