Albert King - On My Merry Way: The Earliest Sessions of the Guitar King (1954 - 1962) (2017)

Tracklist

01. Be on Your Merry Way
02. Bad Luck Blues
03. Ooh-Ee Baby
04. Why Are You so Mean to Me?
05. Need You by My Side
06. The Time Has Come
07. Let's Have a Natural Ball!
08. Blues at Sunrise
09. I Walked All Night Long
10. I've Made Nights by Myself
11. Travellin' to California
12. Dyna Flow
13. Don't Throw Your Love on Me so Strong
14. This Morning
15. I Get Evil
16. What Can I Do to Change Your Mind?
17. Little Boy Blue
18. Hand Me Down Blues
19. Murder
20. Bad Luck
21. Merry Way
22. Searchin' for a Woman
23. California
24. Wild Woman
25. Won't be Hangin' Around
26. Howlin' for My Darling (Calling on My Darling)

Albert King doesn’t require much of an introduction, he was one of the “Three Kings of the Blues” and arguably next to B.B. he was perhaps the most popular of the many genuine blues guitarists to have been adopted by the rock world during the mid-1960s. Albert began playing in the late ‘40s and made his first recordings in 1953 and it is these early sessions that are the focus of this outstanding collection from Jasmine. Includes tracks “Blues At Sunrise” his fine version of Tampa Red’s “Little Boy Blue” and his hit song “Don’t Throw Your Love On Me So Strong” plus many other superb tracks. Albert King influenced many artists including Mick Taylor, Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield and Stevie Ray Vaughan. This then is Albert King’s first tentative steps towards global popularity compiled in chronological order.

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