The king

Dear friends and listeners.....
Bluesman Albert King was one of the premier electric guitar stylists of the post-World War II period. By playing left-handed and holding his guitar upside-down (with the strings set for a right-handed player), and by concentrating on tone and intensity more than flash, King fashioned over his long career, a sound that was both distinctive and highly influential. Albert King is on top form throughout this album. which was recorded live at the Fillmore Auditorium on June 26, 1968. His solos are piercing and intense. The band is great, but King steals the show. His funky,earthy version of Herbie Hancock's classic "Watermelon Man" is a great example of the great man's guitar technique. In fact, the whole album is a display of some of King's best fretwork. The tracks are taken from the same dates as his "Live Wire/Blues Power" album, and the album contains some outtakes from those dates....enjoy HERE....zero