| Truckin' with Albert Collins | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1969 | |||
| Recorded | 1962, 1963, 1965 | |||
| Studio | Gold Star (Houston, Texas) | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Label | Blue Thumb | |||
| Producer | Bill Hall | |||
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Truckin' with Albert Collins is an album by the American musician Albert Collins, released in 1969. [1] [2] It was originally released as The Cool Sounds of Albert Collins, in 1965. [3] It was reissued by MCA Records in 1991. [4]
Produced by Bill Hall, the album was recorded at Gold Star Studios, in Houston, Texas. [5] Nine of the tracks, recorded in 1962 and 1963, had already been released as singles; "Icy Blue", "Kool Aide", and "Shiver 'n Shake" date to April 1965 sessions. [6] [5] The initial Blue Thumb release was channeled for stereo sound. [7] Many of the tracks employ a horn section. [8] Collins used open D-minor and F-minor tunings and played without a pick. [9] [10] He sings on "Dyin' Flu", perhaps his first recorded vocal performance. [6]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [11] |
| The Grove Press Guide to the Blues on CD | [6] |
| MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide |  [12] |
| The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings | [13] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [14] |
| The Virgin Encyclopedia of the Blues | [15] |
The Detroit Free Press opined that "the dynamic levels, moods, metronomic speeds, and rhythms ... are so very similar that it's practically impossible to tell one selection from another." [16] The Province said that Collins has "striven for an instrumental approach that, while acknowledging the profound influence of [T-Bone] Walker and [Albert] King, is an immediately recognizable, wholly personable mode of expression." [17] The Edmonton Journal praised the "hard-drivin, fast-rollin contemporary blues... Easily the best modern interpreter of old-style 'truckin'' blues." [18]
The San Francisco Examiner stated that the 1991 reissue "restores a crucial classic of the literature." [4] AllMusic wrote that "his trademark sound is in place—his leads are stinging, piercing and direct." [11] The Rolling Stone Album Guide noted the "eerie tone clusters." [14]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Frosty" | |
| 2. | "Hot 'n Cold" | |
| 3. | "Frost Bite" | |
| 4. | "Tremble" | |
| 5. | "Thaw-Out" | |
| 6. | "Dyin' Flu" | |
| 7. | "Don't Lose Your Cool" | |
| 8. | "Backstroke" | |
| 9. | "Kool Aide" | |
| 10. | "Shiver 'n Shake" | |
| 11. | "Icy Blue" | |
| 12. | "Sno-Cone II" |
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