B b king and heavy d keep it coming2/17/2024 King Sings Spirituals (1960), The Great B.B. These nine late ’50s-early ’60s recordings on the Crown Records label make their digital debut. ![]() A double-LP set, Deuces Wild, which features King performing duets with a series of noted partners, including Bonnie Raitt, the Rolling Stones and D’Angelo, will be issued on vinyl for the first time, in a special vinyl gatefold edition, October 9. On September 11, joining the two other Crown Records titles already available (the 1956 LP release Singin’ the Blues and 1958’s The Blues), these nine releases on King’s first label feature material that has been unavailable for decades.Īlso available, a pair of classic live albums, Live at the Regal, and Live in Cook County Jail, will be re-released on September 18, both on disc and digital form. Geffen Records/Universal Music Enterprises, to mark what would have been King’s 90th birthday on September 16, is inaugurating a reissue of the venerable musician’s catalog on vinyl and digitally re-mastered for online retailers, starting with the remaining nine titles of his 11 celebrated early albums released on Crown Records, a subsidiary of Modern Records. 6 on its list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” During the course of his remarkable six-decade-plus career, King’s hits ranged from his first R&B chart-topper, “3 O’Clock Blues,” to now-standards including his signature hit, “The Thrill Is Gone,” “Sweet Sixteen,” “How Blue Can You Get?” “Every Day I Have the Blues,” and his 1988 collaboration with U2, “When Love Comes to Town,” which exposed him to a whole new generation of fans. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, just a year after it started, King, a 15-time GRAMMY® winner and Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, was named by Rolling Stone in 2011 as No. King’s fluid, string-bending “talking” style and patented vibrato on the guitar he dubbed “Lucille” ignited the careers of acolytes from Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page to John Mayer and Jack White. Accolades and tributes came not only from fans but fellow musicians who were influenced by the Mississippi-born son of sharecroppers, who virtually popularized the genre that spawned rock ‘n’ roll. ![]() ![]() King passed away on May 14, at the age of 89. The world of music lost one of its all-time legends when the great blues guitarist B. Legendary ‘King of the Blues’ will be remembered with vinyl/digital reissues of Live At The Regal, Live In Cook County Jail and first-ever LP version of two - Deuces Wild, featuring famous collaborators, as well as early classics from Modern/Crown Records
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