This is the only B.B. King album I own on vinyl. Well, actually I have two copies of this record, and I have various other albums of his on cassettes, and CDs. But this is the only album on vinyl, because, this is my favorite B.B. King album of all time. From the fantastic cover art to the dense production featuring musicians like Russ Kunkel, Carole King, Joe Walsh, and the great Leon Russell. It's also on this album that B.B. delivers a stirring rendition of Leon's song Hummingbird.
I first read about this album, and saw the cover, in B.B.'s autobiography, Blues All Around Me, an excellent read by the way that I undertook at about fifteen. I started hunting for a copy of this record, finally coming across it at a thrift store for a quarter. To me this album has a magic to it that always brings me up in spirit.
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