Albert King - I'll Play The Blues For You [CD]

Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Please note that all our DVDs are Region 2.Please note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.Enhanced by 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, four previously unreleased bonus tracks, and newly written liner notes by music journalist and roots music historian Bill Dahl, the reissue not only spotlights one of the most entertaining and influential blues recordings of the 1970s, but also underscores the album\u2019s enduring nature four decades after its original release.\r\rIn addition to King\u2019s brilliant guitar and vocal work, the album also features a rhythm section made up of members of the Bar-Kays and the Movement \u2014 the former a new lineup following the tragic Otis Redding plane crash that wiped out most of the original band, and the latter group Isaac Hayes\u2019s funk-driven outfit, with guitarist Michael Toles, bassist and Bar-Kays co-founder James Alexander, and drummer Willie Hall members of both bands. Rounding out the backup unit is the Memphis Horns, featuring longtime Stax mainstays Wayne Jackson on trumpet and Andrew Love on tenor saxophone.\r\rRecorded in Memphis in 1972 and released in the fall of that same year, I\u2019ll Play the Blues for You \u201cwas a typically brilliant mixture of pile-driving blues and hot Memphis soul grooves that dented Billboard\u2019s pop album survey at #140,\u201d says Dahl in his liner notes. \u201cProducers Allen Jones and Henry Bush kept King contemporary while simultaneously emphasizing his inherent strengths. The result was one of Albert\u2019s best long-players.\u201d\r\r\u201cThis album was originally recorded and released in 1972, at the very end of an era when a variety of musical genres \u2014 blues, rock, pop, soul and funk, to name a few \u2014 could still coexist on a single radio station playlist or on a single tour bill,\u201d says Chris Clough, Concord\u2019s Manager of Catalog Development and producer of this reissue. \u201cAlbert King was versatile enough, and had a broad enough appeal in the early \u201970s, to pull in audiences that were dialed into every one of these styles. He successfully walked a tightrope that connected so many different kinds of music and so many different audiences. This versatility is partly why he\u2019s so influential four decades after this recording was originally issued.\u201d\r\rIn addition to the LP\u2019s eight tracks, I\u2019ll Play the Blues for You includes four previously unreleased titles \u2014 two of which are alternate takes of songs in the main sequence. \u201cA stripped-down \u2018Don\u2019t Burn Down the Bridge\u2019 minus the horns crackles with excitement,\u201d says Dahl, \u201cwhile a freshly discovered alternate of \u2018I\u2019ll Play the Blues for You\u2019 sports a contrasting horn arrangement and has no spoken interlude yet stands quite tall on its own, even with King playing right over an elegant sax solo (he really tears it up on the extended vamp out, spinning chorus after chorus of hair-raising licks\u201d).\r\rThe other two of the four bonus tracks are \u201csplendid additions to King\u2019s Stax canon,\u201d says Dahl. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to understand why \u2018I Need a Love\u2019 laid unissued; the upbeat scorcher comes complete with full-blast horns, Albert\u2019s smoky vocal bearing an ominous edge. \u2018Albert\u2019s Stomp\u2019 is a funk-soaked instrumental that finds King working Lucy [his trademark flying V guitar] over fatback organ and Toles\u2019s wah-wah.\u201d\r\rDahl sums up this 1972 tour de force accurately and succinctly: \u201cWhen Albert King gave us I\u2019ll Play the Blues for You, he fulfilled his promise and then some.\u201d\r1. Ill Play The Blues For You (Pts 1 and 2)2. Little Brother (Make A Way)3. Breaking Up Somebodys Home4. High Cost Of Loving5. Ill Be Doggone6. Answer To The Laundromat Blues7. Dont Burn Down The Bridge (Cause You Might Wanna Come Back Across)8. Angel Of Mercy9. Ill Play The Blues For You10. Dont Burn Down The Bridge (Cause You Might Wanna Come Back Across)11. I Need A Love12. Alberts Stomp

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