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Albert King - 1999 - Blues Power

Albert King was an American blues guitarist and singer. One of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with B. B. King and Freddie King), Albert King stood 6' 4" (192 cm) (some reports say 6' 7") and weighed 250 lbs (118 kg) and was known as "The Velvet Bulldozer". He was born Albert Nelson on a cotton plantation in Indianola, Mississippi. During his childhood he would sing at a family gospel group at a church. One of 13 children, King grew up picking cotton on plantations near Forrest City, Arkansas where the family moved when he was eight. He began his professional work as a musician with a group called In The Groove Boys in Osceola, Arkansas. He also briefly played drums for Jimmy Reed's band and on several early Reed recordings. Influenced by blues musicians Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lonnie Johnson, but also interestingly Hawaiian music, the electric guitar became his signature instrument, his preference being the Gibson Flying V, which he named "Lucy".

01 Get Out Of My Life Woman
02 Born Under A Bad Sign
03 The Feeling
04 We All Wanna Boogie
05 The Very Thought of You
06 I Got the Blues
07 I Get Evil
08 Angel of Mercy
09 Flat Tire
10 California
11 Searchin' for a Woman
12 Bad Luck Blues
13 Wild Woman
14 Be on Your Merry Way
15 Murder
16 Howlin' For My Darlin'
17 Won't Be Hangin' Around

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