| Live Wire / Blues Power | |
| Type: | Live album |
| Artist: | Albert King |
| Cover: | Livewirebluespower.jpg |
| Released: | November 1968 |
| Recorded: | 1968 |
| Venue: | Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco |
| Genre: | Blues |
| Length: | 38:16 |
| Label: | Stax[1] |
| Producer: | Al Jackson Jr. |
| Prev Title: | Born Under a Bad Sign |
| Prev Year: | 1967 |
| Next Title: | Years Gone By |
| Next Year: | 1969 |
Live Wire/Blues Power is a blues album by Albert King.[2] It was recorded live in 1968 at the Fillmore Auditorium.[3] Leftovers from the recordings were released on the albums Wednesday Night in San Francisco and Thursday Night in San Francisco.[4]
The album peaked at No. 150 on the Billboard 200.[5]
The album was produced by Al Jackson Jr.
Rolling Stone called the album "one man’s reworking of a classic format to make an intensely personal statement, invoking all the cliches without becoming for one second a cliche itself."[6] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music deemed it a "classic [that] introduced [King's] music to the white rock audience."