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B.B. King Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shi ...

released in 1972. It features two extended guitar

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s with fellow guitarists

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and

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("Midnight" and "Lucille's Granny"). It also features

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on harmonica and guitar. ("Can't You Hear Me Talking to You" and "I've Been Blue Too Long" respectively). "Can't You Hear Me Talking To You" also features Davis on guitar.

Track listing

Side A #"I Got Some Help I Don't Need" ( Dave Clark, B.B. King) - 5:54 #"Help the Poor" ( Charles Singleton) - 3:33 #"Can't You Hear Me Talking" (Dave Clark, B.B. King) - 3:57 #"Midnight" (B.B. King) - 8:14 Side B #"Sweet Sixteen" (

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) - 7:01 #"(I Believe) I've Been Blue Too Long" (Dave Clark, B.B. King) - 4:50 #"Lucille's Granny" (B.B. King) - 7:53

Personnel

*B.B. King –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

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– guitar, slide guitar (A1, A4, B2, B3) *

– guitar (A1, A4, B3) * Mel Brown – guitar (A2, B1) * Randy Wolfe – guitar (A3, B2) *

– guitar (B2), harmonica (A3) * Paul Harris –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

(A1, B2) *

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– piano (A1, A4, B3), congas (A2, A3) * Ron Levy – piano (A2, B1) *Clifford Coulter – piano (A3),

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(A2) *John Turk – Hammond organ (A3) *Bryan Garofalo –

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(A1, B2) *Wilbert Freeman – bass guitar (A2, B1) *Ron Brown – bass guitar (A3, A4, B3) *Bob Morin – drums (A1, B2) *Sonny Freeman – drums (A2, B1) *

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– drums (A3, A4, B3) *Sandy Konikoff – tambourine (B3) *

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(A1, B3) * John Browning – trumpet (A2, B1) *

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(A1, B2, B3) *Joseph Burton –

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(A2, B1) *

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tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

(A1, B3) *Louis Hubert – tenor saxophone (A2, B1) *

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– baritone saxophone (A1, B3) *Earl Turbinton – alto saxophone (A2, B1)

References

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