Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
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Artist: Albert KingEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-06-18
Music Label: Stax
Soundtracks:
- Born Under A Bad Sign
- Crosscut Saw
- Kansas City
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Down Don't Bother Me
- The Hunter
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- Personal Manager
- Laundromat Blues
- As The Years Go Passing By
- The Very Thought Of You
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Music Review: One Of The Greatest Electric Blues Albums Of All-Time
Rating: 5 Stars
This album and Earl Hooker's "The Moon Is Rising" are two of the greatest electric Blues albums of all-time. There is not a bad song on this disc. Albert King also displays great versatility; "Born Under A Bad Sign" sounds nothing like "The Very Thought Of You", perhaps an odd song choice for Albert, but very well-handled. This is one of the albums that the late Stevie Ray Vaughan most admired. He was heavily influenced by Albert's playing on this record, as were scores of other Blues guitarists and Blues-Rock performers.
Description of Born Under a Bad Sign
Born Under a Bad Sign dates back to a time when albums were collections of singles, and when singles, designed for radio and jukebox play, seldom ran more than three and a half minutes. That limitation meant that artists had to make an impact quickly and firmly. In blues, the tendency of songs to go on a bit had to be curbed to produce performances with punch and point. There are few better examples of this process in action than Albert King's 1960s tracks like "Crosscut Saw," "Born Under a Bad Sign," and his story of hot whispers during the hot-wash cycle, "Laundromat Blues." With his thick voice and no-nonsense guitar, King brought absolute blues credibility to the well-made commercial single, and even tracks that were recorded purely for the album, like the aching slow blues "As the Years Go Passing By," became classics. Reissued with the original funky cover art, Born Under a Bad Sign is one of the foundation stones of a blues collection. --Tony RussellGeneral CDs
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