Live Wire/Blues Power

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Live Wire / Blues Power
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Live album by
Albert King
ReleasedNovember 1968
Recorded1968
Venue Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco
Genre Blues
Length38:16
Label Stax [1]
Producer Al Jackson Jr.
Albert King chronology
Born Under a Bad Sign
(1967)		Live Wire / Blues Power
(1968)		 Years Gone By
(1969)
Professional ratings
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MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
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Live Wire/Blues Power is a blues album by Albert King. [8] It was recorded live in 1968 at the Fillmore Auditorium. [9] Leftovers from the recordings were released on the albums Wednesday Night in San Francisco and Thursday Night in San Francisco . [10]

Contents

The album peaked at No. 150 on the Billboard 200. [11]

Production

The album was produced by Al Jackson Jr. [5]

Critical reception

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." [12] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music deemed it a "classic [that] introduced [King's] music to the white rock audience." [3]

Track listing

  1. "Watermelon Man" (Herbie Hancock) – 4:04
  2. "Blues Power" (Albert King) – 10:18
  3. "Night Stomp" (Raymond Jackson, King) – 5:49
  4. "Blues at Sunrise" (King) – 8:44
  5. "Please Love Me" (B.B. King, Jules Taub) – 4:01
  6. "Look Out" (King) – 5:20 [2]

Personnel

Technical

Charts

Chart performance for Live Wire/Blues Power
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Croatian International Albums (HDU) [13] 33

References

  1. ↑ Sutton, Bob (16 Jan 1993). "Albert King reshaped urban blues". Toronto Star. p. G3.
  2. 1 2 "Live Wire/Blues Power - Albert King | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved May 14, 2021.
  3. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 841.
  4. ↑ Wilson, Lois (October 2024). "Albert King: Live Wire Blues Power". Mojo . No. 371. p. 95.
  5. 1 2 MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 630.
  6. ↑ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings . Penguin. p. 348. ISBN   978-0-140-51384-4.
  7. ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 394.
  8. ↑ "Albert King | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  9. ↑ Folkart, Burt A. (23 Dec 1992). "Albert King: Influential Blues Guitarist". Los Angeles Times. p. 22.
  10. ↑ Snowden, Don (7 Apr 1991). "Still Bluesy After All These Years". Los Angeles Times. Calendar. p. 66.
  11. ↑ "Albert King". Billboard.
  12. ↑ Greenberg, Jerrold (November 23, 1968). "Records". Rolling Stone . San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Lista prodaje 39. tjedan 2024" (in Croatian). HDU. September 16, 2024. Archived from the original on October 2, 2024. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
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