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King Size | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1977 | |||
Genre | Blues | |||
Label | ABC | |||
Producer | Esmond Edwards | |||
B. B. King chronology | ||||
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King: Blues Session Los Angeles Ebony Theater 1987 Guests Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan; Gladys Knight; Dr. John; Chaka Khan, and Paul. Originally released in 1958 by the budget-priced Crown label, The Blues collected a dozen sides B.B. King cut for RPM and Kent between 1951 and 1958. (RPM and Kent were owned by the Bahari Brothers who also ran Crown, which explains how one of the true prestige artists of the blues ended up on such a notoriously cheap-o label.).
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Christgau's Record Guide | B–[2] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [3] |
Ikariam scripts. King Size is the twenty-fourth studio album by B. B. King, released in 1977.
Track listing[edit]
- 'Don't You Lie to Me' (Hudson Whittaker)
- 'I Wonder Why' (William Preston, George Johnson)
- 'I Just Wanna Make Love to You' (Willie Dixon)
- 'Your Lovin' Turned Me On' (Riley King, Esmond Edwards)
- 'Slow and Easy' (Earl Randle)
- 'Got My Mojo Working' (Preston Foster)
- 'Walking in the Sun' (Jeff Barry)
- 'Mother Fuyer' (Traditional; arranged and adapted by Riley King)
- 'The Same Love That Made Me Laugh' (Bill Withers)
- 'It's Just a Matter of Time' (Brook Benton, Belford Hendricks, Clyde Otis)
Personnel[edit]
- B.B. King – guitar, vocals
- Lee Ritenour, Milton Hopkins – guitar
- Joe Turner, Scott Edwards Jr. – bass guitar
- Sonny Burke – piano, synthesizer
- James Toney, Ronnie Barron – Hammond organ
- Ed Greene, John 'Jabo' Starks – drums
- Earl Nash, Eddie 'Bongo' Brown – percussion, congas
- Jimmy Forrest – tenor saxophone
- Fred Jackson Jr. – tenor saxophone, flute
- Ernie Watts – alto saxophone
- Jerome Richardson – baritone saxophone
- Garnett Brown – trombone
- Al Aarons, Bobby Bryant, Roy Poper – trumpet
- Nils Oliver, Ron Cooper – cello
- Paul Polivnick, Rollice Dale – viola
- Charles Veal, Jr., Haim Shtrum, Harris Goldman, Janice Gower, Kathleen Lenski, Bill Henderson – vioin
- Charles Veal, Jr. – concertmaster
- Johnny Pate – horn and string conductor and arranger
- Garnett Brown – horn and string conductor and arranger on 'Slow and Easy'
References[edit]
- ^Ginell, Richard S. King Size at AllMusic
- ^Christgau, Robert (1981). 'Consumer Guide '70s: K'. Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN089919026X. Retrieved February 28, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- ^Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 118. ISBN0-394-72643-X.
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