TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of B.B. King
B.B. King
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.2184
B.B. King Album Rankings
1
B.B. King is not only a timeless singer and guitarist, he's also a natural-born entertainer, and onLive at the Regalthe listener is treated to an exhibition of all three of his talents.
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2
B.B. King has cut a lot of albums since the success ofLive at the Regal.
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3
A 20-track hits compilation that should have been a great deal better than it is.
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4
Even if B.B. King is the King of the Blues, some might find it strange that he chose to recordLet the Good Times Roll, a tribute album toLouis Jordan, the King of Jump Blues.
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5
Completely Wellwas B.B. King's breakthrough album in 1969, which finally got him the long-deserved acclaim that was no less than his due.
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6
This isn't as straightforward an anthology as you might suppose from the title. Yes, it has King singles released on Kent between 1958 and 1971.
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7
MCA's double-disc setAnthologyis a bit of a blessing, actually, a welcome entry to B.B.
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8
No way can a mere four discs cover every facet of the blues king's amazing recording career, but MCA makes a valiant stab at it.
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9
80 (2.1989)These days, newly crowned octogenarian B.B. King seems less an archetypal grizzled bluesman than a wise old Zen master, at peace with the world and himself.
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10
The combination of King and the well-oiled Philly rhythm section that powered hits bythe O'Jays,Spinners, andStylisticsproved a surprisingly adroit one.
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11
B.B. King and Eric ClaptonRiding With the KingReprise2000When Eric Clapton and B.B.
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12
B.B. shares the spotlight with John Lee Hooker , Lowell Fulson and Robert Cray .
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13
This is B.B.'s celebrity duet album, and a straightahead blues album this is not. But longtime fans who are aware of King's genre-stretching capabilities will find much to savor here.
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14
King made his debut as producer with this album released in October, 1998. He employs the most basic of ideas for this project: record an album of B.B. King tunes, with B.B.
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15
Most of B.B. King's studio albums of the 1980s and '90s tend to de-emphasize his guitar playing and consist largely of forgettable originals and obvious attempts at pop hits.
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19
For a recording fervently hyped as a special occasion -- B.B. King's 50th album and all that -- this one is surprisingly patchy in concept and erratic in execution.
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21
These two faultless discs span the recording career of the most popular and innovative urban bluesman of the past two decades.
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40
MCA Special Products' Got My Mojo Working is a ten-track sampler of B.B. King's earliest recordings.
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43
Although Live & Well wasn't a landmark album in the sense of Live at the Regal, it was a significant commercial breakthrough for King, as it was the first of his LPs to enter the Top 100.
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49
Another collaboration that worked a lot better than one might have expected.
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56
Backed by tenor titan Arnett Cobb and some other old buddies from back in the day, B.B. cuts loose in a jump-blues bag.
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62
B.B. King's extremely ill-advised foray into mushy Nashville cornpone.
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