| Love Me Tender | ||||
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| Released | 1982 | |||
| Studio | Music City Music Hall (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Label | MCA | |||
| Producer | Stewart Levine | |||
| B.B. King chronology | ||||
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Love Me Tender is a studio album by the American blues musician B.B. King. [1] [2] It was released via MCA Records in 1982. [3] King supported the album by appearing on Austin City Limits . [4]
The album peaked at No. 179 on the Billboard 200. [5]
Produced by Stewart Levine, the album was recorded in Nashville. [6] [7] The Muscle Shoals Horns appear on some tracks. [8] "Love Me Tender" is a cover of the song made famous by Elvis Presley; King was Presley's favorite blues musician. [9]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [10] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [11] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [12] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [13] |
The New York Times panned the first side of Love Me Tender, calling it "bland, countrypolitan elevator music," but thought more highly of side two's "first-rate after-hours blues." [7] The Globe and Mail wrote that "the singing is lugubrious, the playing is by rote, and the sound is so lush that King can barely be heard above it." [8]
AllMusic called the album an "extremely ill-advised foray into mushy Nashville cornpone." [10] The Rolling Stone Album Guide considered it a return to the "gentle sound" of Midnight Believer . [13]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "One of Those Nights" | 4:58 |
| 2. | "Love Me Tender" | 3:28 |
| 3. | "Don't Change on Me" | 4:35 |
| 4. | "(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time" | 2:52 |
| 5. | "You've Always Got the Blues" | 4:57 |
| 6. | "Nightlife / Please Send Me Someone to Love" | 4:30 |
| 7. | "You and Me, Me and You" | 3:05 |
| 8. | "Since I Met You Baby" | 4:30 |
| 9. | "Time Is a Thief" | 5:26 |
| 10. | "A World I Never Made" | 5:13 |
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