Albert King - I'll Play the Blues for You (Official Visualizer)

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Find Albert King’s Blues at Sunrise: Live At Montreux, wherever you buy or stream music: https://found.ee/albertking-sunrise-montreaux-pivot-g

Albert King, one of the single most influential bluesman in history, single-handedly ushered blues into the modern era by combining his direct, urgent Mississippi blues style with contemporary soul rhythms. He continually redefined the state of contemporary blues with his dry, husky voice and torrid Flying V guitar sound.
The Indianola, Mississippi-born “King of the Blues Guitar,” who cut his professional teeth as a resident of the St. Louis suburb of Lovejoy, Ill., cemented his legacy with his Stax Records debut album Born Under A Bad Sign. While he’d recorded for labels like Vee-Jay, Parrot and Bobbin, it was his chemistry with the Stax team — label executives Al Bell, Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton, songwriters Booker T. Jones and William Bell, and backing from Booker T. & the MGs and the Memphis Horns — that put King on the blues map.

Albert King’s Blues at Sunrise: Live At Montreux album was recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1973, and features Albert King live and unfettered. While nearly all his Stax studio sessions were masterpieces, the bluesman had to edit himself to fit his material into three-minute confines required for 45-RPM release. In person, however, he could really cut loose, bending the strings of his guitar chorus after chorus until he reached peaks of torrid passion. For this trip to Switzerland, King carried a solid band that included the brilliant young second guitarist Donald Kinsey (later of Bob Marley and the Wailers, Peter Tosh, and the Kinsey Report), to whom the boss gave solo space on both "Roadhouse Blues" and the title selection.

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Stax Records, now owned by Concord, was founded by Jim Stewart in 1957 in Memphis, Tennessee. It rose from a small, family-operated company to become one of the most influential soul music record labels in the world, helping create “The Memphis Sound” and launching the careers of icons such as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, the Staple Singers, Sam & Dave, Rufus and Carla Thomas, The Bar-Kays, and dozens of other artists who helped change popular culture forever. In all, Stax placed 167 hit songs in the Top 100 in Pop and 243 hits in the Top 100 in R&B.

Stax Records works closely with the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, the Stax Music Academy, and The Soulsville Charter School, all operated by the Soulsville Foundation and all located on a vibrant campus at the original site of Stax Records in Memphis, TN. The Soulsville Foundation perpetuates the soul of Stax Records by preserving its rich cultural legacy, educating youth to be prepared for life success, and inspiring future artists to achieve their dreams.

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