Live Wire/Blues Power

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Live Wire / Blues Power
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Live album by
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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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Live Wire/Blues Power is a blues album by Albert King. [7] It was recorded live in 1968 at the Fillmore Auditorium. [8] Leftovers from the recordings were released on the albums Wednesday Night in San Francisco and Thursday Night in San Francisco . [9]

Contents

The album peaked at No. 150 on the Billboard 200. [10]

Production

The album was produced by Al Jackson Jr. [4]

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." [11] 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

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