Blues Is King | |
Type: | live |
Artist: | B.B. King |
Cover: | Blues Is King.jpg |
Recorded: | November 5, 1966 |
Venue: | International Club, Chicago |
Genre: | Blues |
Length: | 40:27 |
Label: | BluesWay |
Producer: | Johnny Pate, Louis Zito |
Prev Title: | Confessin' the Blues |
Prev Year: | 1966 |
Next Title: | Blues on Top of Blues |
Next Year: | 1968 |
Blues Is King is a live album by blues musician, B.B. King. It was recorded in Chicago in 1966 and released by the BluesWay label in 1967.
A staff review by AllMusic commented:
The album title influenced the Marshall Crenshaw song of the same name.[1]
Details are taken from the original BluesWay LP and may differ from other sources.[2]
Side one
Side two
Bonus tracks on 1992 See For Miles CD Blues is King... Plus
Taken from the BluesWay single 45-61012.
Bonus tracks on 2012 and 2015 Japanese CD reissues
"Goin' Down Slow" and the reconstructed full version of "Sweet Sixteen" were previously issued on King of the Blues and come from the same live performance as the Blues is King album. (An edit of the recording without the opening guitar solo and the ending was released on the compilation His Best – The Electric B. B. King, for the box set the master of this version was combined with a vinyl rip of the BluesWay single.)