Every Day I Have the Blues Sweet Little Angel It's My Own Fault How Blue Can You Get Please Love Me You Upset Me Baby Worry, Worry Woke Up This Mornin' You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now Help the Poor and his band had been playing well over 300 dates a year since the mid-50s by the time they rolled up at the Regal Theater in Chicago on November 21, 1964, to play the show that was recorded for this album. It’s a blues-bore cliché to talk about B.B.
King’s mastery of the ‘one note’. But it’s true enough on this live set, in which he runs the emotional gamut from the soul food of to the heart-in-fingers phrasing of , for the luckiest crowd in Chicago. What makes the recording so special is King’s electric interaction with his audience, which climaxes with the sexual innuendo of S (‘ ’) and his ode to a two-legged heart attack, .
The sleeve touts it as ‘The Definitive Recording Of Blues In Live Performance', Rolling Stone described it as “B.B. King in his prime”, and many consider it to be the greatest blues album of all time.
"It came out when I was still young and still trying to get going in music," told us. "It’s the ultimate recording of a master blues man commanding an audience and taking this audience on this journey with him and also involving the audience in what he’s doing." Every week, Album of the Week Club listens to and discusses the album in question, votes on how good it is, and publishes our findings, with the aim of giving people relia.
