| Take It Home | ||||
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| Released | 1979 | |||
| Recorded | December 1978–January 1979 | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 34:46 | |||
| Label | MCA | |||
| Producer | Stix Hooper, Joe Sample, Stewart Levine, Wilton Felder | |||
| B. B. King chronology | ||||
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Take It Home is a studio album by the American musician B.B. King, released in 1979. [1]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Christgau's Record Guide | B+ [3] |
| MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide | [4] |
| The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings | [5] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [6] |
The Bay State Banner noted that "the voice remains striking and the stinging fills when they come are impressive, but they cannot make routine arrangements and lyrics memorable." [7]
The Crusaders were an American jazz group that was successful from the 1960s to the 2010s. The group was known as the Jazz Crusaders from their formation in 1960 until shortening their name in 1971. The Crusaders were comfortable playing a wide assortment of genres, from straight ahead jazz, to urban R&B, to R&B-based jazz, to even blues. The band reached a commercial apex in 1979 with their hit single "Street Life", featuring lead vocals by Randy Crawford, and their accompanying album of the same name.
Street Life is a studio album by the American jazz band the Crusaders. It was a top 20 album on three Billboard charts and represents the peak of the band's commercial popularity. The title track, featuring singer Randy Crawford, was a Top 40 pop single and became the group's most successful entry on the soul chart. It was No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart. "Street Life" also hit the disco chart, peaking at No. 75, and was re-recorded by Doc Severinsen with Crawford reprising her vocal for the opening sequence of the noir crime drama Sharky's Machine, directed by Burt Reynolds in 1981. This faster paced version was also featured in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, released in 1997.
Collection is a compilation album of jazz songs by American pianist Joe Sample that was released in 1991 through GRP Records.
Live at San Quentin is a 1990 live album by blues guitarist B.B. King performed at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California.
Midnight Believer is the twenty-fifth studio blues album by B.B. King, released in 1978 on ABC Records. The album reached No. 27 on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart.
Now Appearing at Ole Miss is a live album by B. B. King, recorded in 1979 and released as a double album on MCA Records in 1980. The live recordings were augmented with overdubs, most notably with percussion instruments. This has been criticized by reviewers as making the album stale, and it is widely regarded as B.B. King's weakest 'live' album. One notable feature, is that the album contains the first use of the bass style of playing known as "slap" by Russell Jackson, who would go on to play in the posthumous "B.B. King Experience Band" with another B.B. King band veteran James "Boogaloo" Bolden.
Those Southern Knights is a 1976 studio album by The Crusaders. It peaked at number 38 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, as well as number 9 on the Soul LPs chart and number 2 on the Top Jazz LPs chart.
Royal Jam is a live recording by the jazz-funk band The Crusaders with B.B. King, Josie James and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall.
Chain Reaction is a 1975 album by jazz-fusion band The Crusaders.
Southern Comfort is a 1974 album by jazz fusion band The Crusaders.
Blues Summit is the thirty-third studio album by B.B. King released in 1993 through the MCA label. The album reached peak positions of number 182 on the Billboard 200, and number 64 on Billboard's R&B Albums chart. The album won a Grammy Award in 1994 for Best Traditional Blues Album.
Sleeping Gypsy is a jazz vocal album by Michael Franks, released in 1977 with Warner Bros. Records. It was Franks' third studio album after The Art of Tea and prior to Burchfield Nines.
Freedom Sound is the debut album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1961 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.
The Jazz Crusaders at the Lighthouse is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1962 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.
Stretchin' Out is the seventh album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1964 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.
Chile Con Soul, recorded in 1965 and released on the Pacific Jazz label, is the ninth album by The Jazz Crusaders.
Live at the Lighthouse '66 is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1966 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.
Lighthouse '68 is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1967 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.
The Festival Album is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1966 at Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and Pacific Jazz Festival in California. It was released on the Pacific Jazz label that same year.
Now We May Begin is an album by the American R&B singer Randy Crawford, released in 1980 on Warner Bros. Records. The album got to No. 10 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 30 on the US Billboard Top R&B Albums chart. Now We May Begin has also been certified Silver in the UK by the BPI.
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