B.B. King - Live In Cook County Jail album flac

Live in Cook County Jail is a 1971 live album by American blues musician . King, recorded on September 10, 1970, in Cook County Jail. King and his backing band performed slow blues tracks for a audience of 2,117 prisoners, most of whom were young black men. Cook County Jail warden Winston Moore asked King to perform for the prisoners. King agreed, and after he told ABC Records about the performance, he was advised to bring along press and recording equipment.

King’s first album for the Stax label combines his hard, unflashy guitar playing with the sleek sound of the label’s house band, Booker T. and the MG’s. Hits such as Crosscut Saw and Laundromat Blues earned King a new rock & roll audience. By their fifth album, Kiss were the most popular band in America, with sold-out stadium tours and eventually their own pinball machine, makeup line and a TV movie. Built around the proto power ballad Beth, this is a ridiculously over-the-top party-rock album that just gets better with age. Listen here.

And, like the live shows they document, none of them are any less than solid and professional, hallmarks of King's work aesthetic. But every so often . truly catches fire; his playing and singing comes up an extra notch or two, and the result is a live album with some real sparks to it. Live in Cook County Jail is one of those great concerts that the record company was smart enough to be there to capture, documenting . firing on all cylinders in front of an audience that's just damn happy for him to be there.

Recorded in Performance at Cook County Jail, Chicago, I. September 10, 1970.

It’s inevitable that this BB King album will be compared to 1965’s Live At The Regal, recorded by the same blues giant and hailed as one of the greatest live albums of all time. And yet Live In Cook County Jail, recorded on 10 September 1970, is an unusual concept, as few artists had followed Johnny Cash’s pioneering example of recording in a prison. In 1968 Cash recorded in Folsom Prison, which was followed a year later with Cash playing at San Quentin. Listen to Live In Cook County Jail right now. There was no greater ambassador for the blues than BB King

Live In Cook County Jail. One of the greatest concert recordings of all time. How could it be less, with . King performing some of his best material before a literally captive audience in an Illinois prison? "Worry, Worry" and "How Blue Can You Get" take on deeper meanings here, although King works the latter's camp lyrics as if he were in a juke joint. His mix of down-home humility and commanding stagecraft is instantly appealing. And his guitar barks, sings, and squeals with such authority that this is a bravura performance from the first bent, soul-searing note.

King has long been known as a road warrior who regularly plays over 300 dates a year. One of his most noted and unusual gigs, „Live In Cook County Jail, occurred on September 10, 1970. Performing before 2,117 inmates with. Performing before 2,117 inmates with minimum security, King took his "captive audience" through a set peppered with staples of his impressive canon. Backed by a punchy horn section and peppering the set with his trademark quick licks, King immediately won over the audience. Of course, one of the most enduring facets of a live . King show is the neighborly relationship he quickly establishes with whoever might make up his audience.