Comments on: Albert King – King of the Blues Guitar http://worldofblues.com/Blog/2009/03/26/albert-king-king-of-the-blues-guitar-2/ Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:21:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: blues1 http://worldofblues.com/Blog/2009/03/26/albert-king-king-of-the-blues-guitar-2/comment-page-1/#comment-84 blues1 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:26:12 +0000 http://worldofblues.com/Blog/?p=875#comment-84 I love this video of Joe Bonamassa jamming with Eric Clapton @ Royal Albert Hall...check it! http://bit.ly/ajKV2l I love this video of Joe Bonamassa jamming with Eric Clapton @ Royal Albert Hall…check it!

http://bit.ly/ajKV2l

]]> By: DavidDMuir http://worldofblues.com/Blog/2009/03/26/albert-king-king-of-the-blues-guitar-2/comment-page-1/#comment-20 DavidDMuir Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:45:17 +0000 http://worldofblues.com/Blog/?p=875#comment-20 Just listened again to "In Session" again. The bit I'm talking about is in "Pep Talk" (track 5) towards the end. Just listened again to “In Session” again. The bit I’m talking about is in “Pep Talk” (track 5) towards the end.

]]> By: DavidDMuir http://worldofblues.com/Blog/2009/03/26/albert-king-king-of-the-blues-guitar-2/comment-page-1/#comment-19 DavidDMuir Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:38:42 +0000 http://worldofblues.com/Blog/?p=875#comment-19 Thanks for the offer. Essentially I am a rock fan who discovered the Blue relatively late in my musical development. (I remember stopping dead in my tracks while walking the dog because I was listening to AC/DC - If You Want Blood and I suddenly realised: "They're playing the Blues!") So rather than starting with Albert King and moving to Hendrix, I started with Hendrix and went backwards to Albert King. |:-) I suppose therefore I mostly like the usual suspects and read blogs like this to widen my horizons. At the moment, I am obsessed with Joe Bonamassa and through him discovered the sadly deceased Chris Whitley. I saw B B King in concert and loved the "Riding With The King stuff he did with Clapton. John Lee Hooker was a genius. Pushing further back still I found a compilation of Leadbelly songs that was fantastic ("Ah... so that's where Jimmy Page got his riffs from!") So, thank you for your comments and thanks for educating me about the Blues. Thanks for the offer. Essentially I am a rock fan who discovered the Blue relatively late in my musical development. (I remember stopping dead in my tracks while walking the dog because I was listening to AC/DC – If You Want Blood and I suddenly realised: “They’re playing the Blues!”) So rather than starting with Albert King and moving to Hendrix, I started with Hendrix and went backwards to Albert King. |:-)

I suppose therefore I mostly like the usual suspects and read blogs like this to widen my horizons. At the moment, I am obsessed with Joe Bonamassa and through him discovered the sadly deceased Chris Whitley. I saw B B King in concert and loved the “Riding With The King stuff he did with Clapton. John Lee Hooker was a genius. Pushing further back still I found a compilation of Leadbelly songs that was fantastic (“Ah… so that’s where Jimmy Page got his riffs from!”)

So, thank you for your comments and thanks for educating me about the Blues.

]]> By: admin http://worldofblues.com/Blog/2009/03/26/albert-king-king-of-the-blues-guitar-2/comment-page-1/#comment-17 admin Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:35:18 +0000 http://worldofblues.com/Blog/?p=875#comment-17 Wow - thanks David, I think I missed that part - I remember the part about Albert King marveling at how good SRV was - but didn't hear that comment. It is touching, thanks for this and your comments. Its a pleasure to have you on the site. Let me know who else you like and we'll do some blogs on them. Wow – thanks David, I think I missed that part – I remember the part about Albert King marveling at how good SRV was – but didn’t hear that comment. It is touching, thanks for this and your comments. Its a pleasure to have you on the site. Let me know who else you like and we’ll do some blogs on them.

]]> By: DavidDMuir http://worldofblues.com/Blog/2009/03/26/albert-king-king-of-the-blues-guitar-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16 DavidDMuir Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:35:42 +0000 http://worldofblues.com/Blog/?p=875#comment-16 I like the In Session with SRV album and the bits where they are just chatting between the songs is fascinating. However, I think one of the saddest bits is where Albert is telling SRV that he's good but that he's going to get better. It's tragic that we never got to hear just how good SRV was going to get. I like the In Session with SRV album and the bits where they are just chatting between the songs is fascinating. However, I think one of the saddest bits is where Albert is telling SRV that he’s good but that he’s going to get better. It’s tragic that we never got to hear just how good SRV was going to get.

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