Milestones of a Blues Legend

Compilation by B.B. King

Released 30 October 2015

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Tracklist

CD 1: “Singin’ the Blues” (1957)
1
Please Love Me
2:51
2.0 ★
2
You Upset Me Baby
3:03
2.5 ★
3
Everyday I Have the Blues
2:50
2.0 ★
4
Bad Luck
2:55
4.0 ★
5
Three O’Clock Blues
3:01
6
Blind Love
3:06
7
Woke Up This Morning
2:58
2.6 ★
8
You Know I Love You
3:05
3.0 ★
9
Sweet Little Angel
3:12
10
Ten Long Years
2:48
4.0 ★
11
Did You Ever Love a Woman
2:34
12
Crying Won’t Help You
2:59
4.0 ★
13
Miss Martha King (1949)
2:42
14
When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes (1949)
2:28
15
Got the Blues (1949)
2:46
16
Take a Swing With Me (1949)
2:32
17
B.B. Boogie (1950)
3:11
18
Mistreated Woman (1950)
2:45
19
The Other Night Blues (1950)
3:36
20
My Baby’s Gone (1950)
2:00
CD 2: “The Blues” (1957)
1
Why Do Things Happen to Me
2:47
4.0 ★
2
Ruby Lee
3:02
3
When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer
2:56
4.0 ★
4
Past Day (Don’t Have to Cry)
3:16
5.0 ★
5
Boogie Woogie Woman
2:49
4.0 ★
6
Early in the Morning
2:35
5.0 ★
7
I Want to Get Married
3:04
4.0 ★
8
That Ain’t the Way to Do It
2:18
3.0 ★
9
Troubles, Troubles, Troubles
2:55
4.0 ★
10
Don’t You Want a Man Like Me
2:22
11
You Know I Go for You
2:39
3.0 ★
12
What Can I Do
2:49
3.0 ★
13
She’s a Mean Woman (1951)
2:33
14
B.B. Blues (1951)
2:29
15
She’s Dynamite (1951)
2:32
16
Shake It Up and Go (1952)
2:36
17
Someday, Somewhere (1952)
2:53
18
You Didn’t Want Me (1952)
2:35
19
Fine Looking Woman (1952)
2:22
CD 3: “B.B. King Wails” (1958)
1
Sweet Thing
2:55
2
I’ve Got Papers on You Baby
2:22
3
Tomorrow Is Another Day
2:56
4
Come by Here
2:16
5
The Fool
2:40
6
I Love You So
2:53
7
The Woman I Love
3:02
8
We Can’t Make It
2:39
9
Treat Me Right
2:22
10
Time to Say Goodbye
2:09
11
Story From My Heat and Soul (1952)
2:59
12
She Don’t Move Me No More (1952)
3:06
13
My Own Fault, Darling (1952)
3:34
14
Gotta Find My Baby (1952)
2:26
15
Highway Bound (1953)
2:47
16
Please Hurry Home (1953)
2:44
17
Neighbourhood Affair (1953)
2:56
18
Why Did You Leave Me (1953)
3:07
19
The Woman I Love (1954)
2:42
20
Whole Lotta Love (1954)
3:09
CD 4: “B.B. King Sings Spirituals” (1959)
1
Precious Lord
3:23
3.0 ★
2
Save a Seat for Me
3:04
2.0 ★
3
Ole Time Religion
2:27
2.0 ★
4
Sweet Chariot
2:08
2.0 ★
5
Servant’s Prayer
3:03
1.0 ★
6
Jesus Gave Me Water
3:03
1.0 ★
7
I Never Heard a Man
2:36
2.0 ★
8
Army of the Lord
3:06
1.0 ★
9
I Am Willing to Run All the Way
3:38
3.0 ★
10
I’m Working on the Building
2:49
2.0 ★
11
Love You Baby (1954)
2:25
12
Sneakin’ Around (1954)
3:03
13
Bye Bye Baby (1954)
2:31
14
Praying to the Lord (1954)
2:50
15
Everything I Do Is Wrong (1954)
2:26
16
Please Help Me (1954)
3:17
17
Don’t You Want a Man Like Me (1954)
2:40
18
I’m In Love (1955)
2:18
CD 5: “Compositions of Duke Ellington and Others” (1960)
1
Cottontail
3:07
2
Solitude
3:16
3
Jack the Bear
3:29
4
Sophisticated Lady
3:37
5
Jeeps Blues
4:37
6
Take the “A” Train
3:02
7
Don’t Get Around Much Any More
3:14
8
Main Stem
2:57
9
Mood Indigo
3:56
10
Eastside Westside
3:07
11
Jump With You Baby (1955)
2:13
12
Lonely and Blue (1955)
2:58
13
Sixteen Tons (1955)
2:34
14
Talkin’ the Blues (1955)
2:21
15
I’m Cracking Up Over You (1956)
2:51
16
Bim Bam (1956)
2:35
17
On My Word of Honor (1956)
2:55
18
Can’t We Take It Over (1956)
3:22
CD 6: “King of the Blues” (1960)
1
I’ve Got a Right to Love My Baby
3:14
2
What Way to Go
3:07
3
Long Nights
3:31
4
Feel Like a Million
3:32
5
I’ll Survive
2:41
6
Good Man Gone Bad
2:46
7
If I Lost You
2:41
8
You’re on the Top
2:50
9
Partin’ Time
3:01
10
I’m King
2:20
1.0 ★
11
The Key to My Kingdom (1957)
2:33
12
Be Careful With a Fool (1957)
2:52
13
You Don’t Know (1957)
2:25
14
I Wonder (1957)
2:49
15
I Need You So Bad (1957)
2:56
16
Days of Old (1958)
2:29
17
Please Accept My Love (1958)
2:33
18
Don’t Look Now, but I’ve Got the Blues (1958)
2:42
CD 7: “My Kind of Blues” (1960)
1
You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
5:14
4.0 ★
2
Mr. Pawn Broker
3:14
3.0 ★
3
Understand
2:39
4.0 ★
4
Someday Baby
2:52
3.0 ★
5
Driving Wheel
2:50
2.0 ★
6
Walking Doctor Bill
3:41
7
My Own Fault, Baby
3:33
8
Catfish Blues
2:30
4.0 ★
9
Hold That Train
3:57
4.0 ★
10
Please Set the Date
2:48
11
Boogie Rock (1955)
3:06
12
I Am (1959)
2:18
13
Worry, Worry, Worry (1959)
2:41
14
Hard Working Woman (1955)
2:36
15
Walkin’ and Cryin’ (1954)
2:52
16
Dark Is the Night Part I (1956)
2:39
17
Dark Is the Night Part II (1956)
2:43
CD 8: “More B.B. King” (1961)
1
Bad Case of Love
2:21
2
Get Out of Here
2:41
3
Bad Luck Soul
2:19
4
Shut Your Mouth
2:42
5
Baby Look at You
3:10
6
You’re Breaking My Heart
4:15
7
My Reward
2:17
8
Don’t Cry Anymore
2:19
9
Blues for Me
2:19
10
(Ain’t That) Just Like a Woman
3:17
4.0 ★
11
Things Are Not the Same (1960)
3:09
12
Sugar Mama (1959)
2:45
13
A Lonely Lover’s Plea (1959)
2:47
14
Yes Indeed (1960)
3:23
15
Bad Luck Blues (1960)
2:19
16
It’s My Own Fault (1960)
3:34
17
Please Love Me (1960)
2:51
18
Everyday I Have the Blues (1959)
5:07
CD 9: “Easy Listening Blues” (1962)
1
Easy Listening Blues
2:37
4.0 ★
2
Blues for Me
2:55
3
Night Long
2:59
3.0 ★
4
Confessin’ the Blues
2:40
5
Don’t Touch
2:44
6
Slow Walk
3:15
4.0 ★
7
Walkin’
2:46
3.0 ★
8
Hully Gully
2:58
3.0 ★
9
Shoutin’ the Blues
2:42
2.0 ★
10
Rambler
2:31
3.0 ★
11
Sweet Sixteen Part I (1960)
3:03
12
Sweet Sixteen Part II (1960)
3:18
13
I Was Blind (1960)
3:07
14
You’ve Been an Angel (1958)
2:41
15
Let’s Do the Boogie (1956)
2:27
16
I’m Gonna Quit My Baby (1957)
2:34
17
Some Day Somewhere (1960)
2:54
18
Mean Old Frisco (1959)
2:32
CD 10: “Twist With B.B. King” (1962)
1
You Upset Me Baby
3:03
2.5 ★
2
Woke Up This Morning
3:00
3
Please Love Me
2:51
4
Bad Case of Love
2:20
5
Groovin’ Twist
2:17
6
Bad Luck Soul
2:18
7
Do What I Say
2:22
8
Rockin’ Twist
3:13
9
Come by Here
2:17
10
Oh Baby
2:23
11
Days of Old (1958)
2:26
12
You’ve Been an Angel (1958)
2:40
13
Someday Somewhere (1961)
2:53
14
Peace of Mind (1961)
2:17
15
My Sometime Baby (1962)
3:05
16
Gonna Miss You Around Here (1962)
2:53

More by B.B. King

Completely Well

Completely Well 1969

Live at Montreux 1993

Live at Montreux 1993 2009

One Kind Favor

One Kind Favor 2008

Fillmore East, NYC June 19, 1971 (Early Show)

Fillmore East, NYC June 19, 1971 (Early Show) 2008

Live at the BBC

Live at the BBC 2008

Black Blues Experience

Black Blues Experience 2007

Release credits

B.B. King
guitar [10.1, 1.1-3, 1.17], vocal [1.1-3, 1.17, 10.1]
Bill Harvey
arranger [1], tenor saxophone [1]
Charles Crosby
congas [1, 3]
Connie McBooker
piano [1]
Floyd Jones
trumpet [1]
Floyd Turnham
saxophone [10.1, 1.2]
George Coleman
alto saxophone [1]
Harry D. Jones
trumpet [1.2, 10.1]
James Walker
bass [1]
Jesse Sailes
drums (drum set) [10.1, 1.2]
Jewell Grant
alto saxophone [1.2, 10.1]
Joe Bihari
producer [1]
Maxwell Davis
arranger [1.2-3, 10.1], conductor [2-4, 7-10], tenor saxophone [10.1, 1.2]
Phineas Newborn, Jr.
piano [17]
Ralph Hamilton
bass [1.2, 10.1]
Sam Phillips
producer [17]
Ted Curry
drums (drum set) [1]
Willard McDaniel
piano [10.1, 1.2]

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Milestones of a Blues Legend
10x CD
30 October 2015