Lovejoy (album)

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Lovejoy
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1971
RecordedDecember 1970 - January 1971
StudioSkyhill Studios, Hollywood Hills, California
Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama [1]
Genre Blues
Length36:23
Label Stax [2]
Producer Don Nix
Albert King chronology
Blues for Elvis – King Does the King's Things
(1970)
Lovejoy
(1971)
I'll Play the Blues for You
(1972)
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Lovejoy is a studio album by Albert King, released in 1971. [7]

Contents

The album peaked at No. 188 on the Billboard 200. [8]

Production

The album was produced by Don Nix, who also penned some of the songs. [9] "Lovejoy, Ill." is about Brooklyn, Illinois, which is nicknamed Lovejoy, after Elijah P. Lovejoy. [10] King got his start in Lovejoy.

Track listing

  1. "Honky Tonk Woman" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:59
  2. "Bay Area Blues" (Donald "Duck" Dunn, Don Nix) – 2:55
  3. "Corrina, Corrina" (Don Nix) – 3:45
  4. "She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)" (Taj Mahal, James Rachell) – 3:56
  5. "For the Love of a Woman" (Don Nix) – 4:20
  6. "Lovejoy, III." (Don Nix) – 3:46
  7. "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" (Don Nix) – 4:20
  8. "Going Back to Iuka" (Don Nix) – 3:58
  9. "Like a Road Leading Home" (Don Nix, Dan Penn) – 5:24

Personnel

Technical

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