The Best Of Albert King

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Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 62:22

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Dan Epstein

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10.14.09
Albert King, The Best Of Albert King
2006 | Label: Stax

What did Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan all have in common, aside from being kick-ass axe-slingers? They all worshipped Albert King, a guitarist whose famously irascible personality was matched only by the sheer nastiness of his licks. This 13-track "greatest hits" compilation draws mostly from King's late-'60s and early-'70s work, and his searing playing on "Killing Floor," "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven" and "Sky Is Crying" will make a stone believer out of you as well.

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bend them strings

michael_mcdee

Great blues love how he bends those strings. Good album sample for albert king.

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One of the Best

OrkyDoc

It's funny how you forget your roots sometimes. I used to listen to Alber King all the time. But I stopped playing in blues bands so his music got dusty in my CD collection. I was reminded by some Emusic blues fans I need to have some of his music so I now have some! Like Clapton, Page, SRV or Skynyrd? Then you will love one of the guys all of them ripped off!

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“The best of Albert King”? More like the best material that he happened to record for Stax between 1968 and 1973. Even that’s debatable, the 13 tracks including covers such as “Honky Tonk Woman,” “Sky Is Crying,” and “Hound Dog.” It does present a reasonable cross-section of his soul-inflected work of the period, drawing from over a half-dozen LPs and a couple of singles, though you might be as well or better off with his more focused individual titles. And for the true “best of Albert King,” Rhino’s Ultimate Collection remains the hands-down winner. – Richie Unterberger