The Complete RPM-Kent Recording Box

Compilation by B.B. King

Released 16 December 2015

blues electric blues

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CD 1: Life
1
The Road I Travel (take 1)
2
Blues at Sunrise
3
Army of the Lord (alt.)
4
Broke and Hungry
5
So Much Trouble
6
Questionnaire Blues
7
Bad Breaks
8
Someday Baby (aka Some Day, Some Where)
9
B.B. Blues
10
Sunny Road
11
Why I Sing the Blues (take 4)
12
Sweet Little Angel (alt.)
13
My Silent Prayer
14
I Want to Get Married (alt.)
15
Sundown
16
Mean Ole Frisco (take 2)
17
B.B. King Radio Spot on Wokj, Jackson
18
Everyday I Have the Blues (take 5)
19
Down Now (take 1)
20
We Can't Make It
21
My Own Fault (take 1)
22
The Worst Thing in My Life (alt.)
23
I'll Survive
24
Young Dreamers
25
I'm King
26
Growing Old (take 2)
27
Time to Say Goodbye (take 4)
28
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
29
Shake Yours
30
You Shouldn't Have Left
31
Going Down Slow
32
On My Word of Honor (take 1)
33
Strange Things
34
Walkin' (alt.)
35
Let Me Love You (alt.)
36
Worry Worry
37
Someday Baby
38
You Know I Love You
39
Lonely and Blue (take 3)
40
What a Way to Go
41
Shotgun Blues (original)
42
Your Fool (original)
CD 2: 3 O'Clock Blues (Rpm 304 - Rpm 386)
1
Mistreated Woman
2
B.B. Boogie
3
The Other Night Blues
4
Walkin' and Cryin'
5
My Baby's Gone
6
Don't You Want a Man Like Me
7
B.B. Blues
8
She's Dynamite
9
She's a Mean Woman
10
Hard Working Woman
11
3 O'Clock Blues
12
That Ain't the Way to Do It
13
Fine Lookin' Woman
14
She Don't Move Me No More
15
Shake It Up and Go
16
My Own Fault, Darlin'
17
Some Day, Some Where
18
Gotta Find My Baby
19
You Didn't Want Me
20
You Know I Love You
21
Story From My Heart and Soul
22
Boogie Woogie Woman
23
Woke Up This Morning (My Baby She Was Gone)
24
Don't Have to Cry (Past Day)
25
Please Love Me
26
Highway Bound
CD 3: You Upset Me Baby (Rmp 391 - Rpm 450)
1
Neighborhood Affair
2
Please Hurry Home
3
Why Did You Leave Me
4
Blind Love (Who Can Your Good Man Be)
5
Praying to the Lord
6
Please Help Me
7
Love You Baby
8
The Woman I Love
9
Everything I Do Is Wrong
10
Don't You Want a Man Like Me
11
When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer
12
Bye! Bye! Baby
13
You Upset Me Baby
14
Whole Lotta' Love
15
Sneakin' Around
16
Everyday I Have the Blues
17
Lonely and Blue
18
Jump With You Baby
19
Shut Your Mouth
20
I'm in Love
21
Talkin' the Blues
22
Boogie Rock
23
What Can I Do (Just Sing the Blues)
24
Ten Long Years (I Had a Woman)
25
I'm Cracking Up Over You
26
Ruby Lee
CD 4: Sweet Little Angel (Rpm 451 - Kent 307)
1
Can't We Talk It Over (aka Come Back Baby)
2
Sixteen Tons
3
Crying Won't Help You
4
Did You Ever Love a Woman
5
Let's Do the Boogie
6
Dark Is the Night Pt. 1
7
Dark Is the Night Pt. 2
8
Sweet Little Angel
9
Bad Luck
10
On My Word of Honor
11
Bim Bam
12
Early in the Morning (aka early Every Morning)
13
You Don't Know
14
How Do I Love You
15
You Can't Fool My Hearts
16
I Want to Get Married
17
Trouble Troubles Troubles
18
(I'm Gonna) Quit My Baby
19
Be Carefool With a Fool
20
I Wonder
21
I Need You So Bad
22
The Key to My Kingdom
23
My Hearts Belongs to Only You
24
You Know I Go for You
25
Why Do Everything Happen to Me
26
Don't Look Now, but I've Got the Blues
27
Days of Old
CD 5: Please Accept My Love (Kent 315 - Kent 353)
1
Please Accept My Love
2
You've Been an Angel
3
I Am
4
Worry Worry
5
Come by Here
6
The Fool
7
A Lonely Lover's Plea
8
The Woman I Love
9
Everyday I Have the Blues
10
Time to Say Goodbye
11
Mean Ole Frisco
12
Sugar Mama
13
Sweet Sixteen
14
Got a Right to Love My Baby
15
My Own Fault
16
Sweet Little Angel
17
Good Man Gone Bad
18
Partin' Time
19
You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
20
Walking Dr. Bill
21
Things Are Not the Same
22
Fishin' After Me (aka Catfish Blues)
23
Get Out of Here
24
Bad Luck Soul
CD 6: My Sometime Baby (Kent 358 - Kent 391)
1
Hold That Train
2
Understand
3
Peace of Mind
4
Someday
5
Bad Case of Love
6
You're Breaking My Heart
7
Lonely
8
My Sometime Baby
9
Hully Gully Twist
10
Gonna Miss You Around Here
11
Mashed Potato Twist (aka 38th Street Blues)
12
Three O'Clock Stomp
13
Masking the Popeye
14
When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer
15
Going Down Slow
16
3 O'Clock Blues
17
Your Letter
18
Christmas Celebration
19
Easy Listening Blues
20
Down Now
21
Whole Lot of Lovin'
22
Trouble in Mind
23
Long Nights (The Feeling They Call the Blues)
24
The Road I Travel
25
My Reward
26
The Letter
27
You Never Know
CD 7: Rock Me Baby (Kent 392 - Kent 458)
1
Army of the Lord
2
Precious Lord
3
Rock Me Baby
4
I Can't Lose
5
You're Gonna Miss Me
6
Let Me Love You
7
Beautician Blues
8
I Can Hear My Name
9
The Worst Thing in My Life
10
Got 'em Bad
11
Baby, Look at You
12
Blue Shadows
13
And Like That
14
Just a Dream
15
Broken Promise
16
Mercy, Mercy Baby
17
Eyesight to the Blind
18
Just Like a Woman
19
5 Long Years
20
Love, Honor and Obey
21
Ain't Nobody's Business
22
I Wonder Why
23
I Stay in the Mood
24
Early Every Morning (aka early in the Morning)
25
Blues Stay Away
26
It's a Mean World
CD 8: The Jungle (Kent 462 - Kent 4572)
1
The Jungle
2
Long Gone Baby
3
Treat Me Right
4
Bad Breaks
5
Growing Old
6
Sweet Thing
7
Soul Beat
8
Worry, Worry, Worry (Overdubbed)
9
The Woman I Love (Overdubbed)
10
Blues for Me
11
3'o Clock Blues (Overdubbed)
12
Slow Burn
13
Your Fool
14
Shoutin' the Blues
15
House Rocker (aka Boogie Rock)
16
Worried Life
17
Walking Dr. Bill (Overdubbed)
18
That Evil Child
19
Tell Me Baby
20
Long Nights (The Feeling They Call the Blues)
21
I'll Survive
22
Precious Lord
23
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
24
Don't Get Around Much Any More
25
Recession Blues
CD 9: Dancin' the Blues Away
1
Woke Up This Morning (take 2)
2
B.B. Boogie (take 2)
3
Please Love Me (take 2)
4
Hard Working Woman (take 2)
5
Shut Your Mouth (alt.)
6
Whole Lotta Meat (take 14)
7
You've Got My Hands Tied
8
Baby, Look at You (take 2)
9
Ruby Lee (short)
10
In the Middle of an Island (take 7)
11
Days of Old (alt.)
12
Tickle Britches
13
Shake Yours (take 7)
14
Three O'Clock Stomp (aka Poontwangie)
15
I've Got Papers on You, Baby
16
Mashed Potato Twist
17
Whole Lot of Lovin' (take 1)
18
My Baby's an Angel
19
My Baby's Dynamite
20
Don't Let It Shock You
21
Mercy, Mercy Baby (take 3)
22
Your Good Lovin' Man
23
Rock Me Baby (alt.)
CD 10: My Love
1
That's How Much You Mean to Me
2
Going Home
3
Jesus Gave Me Water
4
Save a Seat for Me
5
Ole Time Religion
6
Servant's Prayer
7
Pray for You (take 1)
8
You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now (alt.)
9
Radio Spot for a Kent LP
10
Please Set the Date
11
Don't Care Anymore
12
I'm in Love With a Woman
13
Sweet Little Angel (take 1)
14
You're on Top
15
You Won't Listen
16
What a Way to Spend the Night
17
Early This Morning (take 2)
18
Love Oh Love (take 3)
19
Running Wild
20
The Wrong Road
21
Be Careful Baby
22
Did You Ever Love a Woman
23
Endless Night (What Have I Done Wrong)
24
Christmas Celebration (take 3)
25
I Never Heard a Man
26
I'm Working on the Building
27
I'm Willing to Run All the Way
CD 11: Cover Songs and Beyond
1
Gotta Find My Baby (Alt)
2
Crying Won't Help You (take 2)
3
Green and Lucky Blues
4
Down Hearted (aka How Blue Can You Get?)
5
Catfish Blues (aka Fishin' After Me)
6
Baby Please Don't Go
7
Dust My Broom
8
When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer (take 5)
9
Going Down Slow (take 1, 1959)
10
Looking the World Over
11
Please Set the Date
12
Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door
13
Yes, Indeed
14
Trouble in Mind (take 1)
15
St. Louis Blues
16
Blues at Sunrise
17
Drifting Blues
18
Blue Shadows
19
Trouble Trouble Troubles (take 1)
20
Please Accept My Love (alt.)
21
Driving Wheel
22
Someday Baby (aka Worried Life Blues)
23
Did You Ever Love a Woman (alt.)
24
Hold That Train (take 1)
CD 12: Talkin' the Blues
1
Talkin' the Blues (take 2)
2
String Bean
3
Soul Beat (aka Powerhouse) (take 2)
4
Blues for Me (aka Groovin' Twist)
5
Walkin'
6
Rambler
7
Confessin'
8
Don't Touch (Don't You Want a Man Like Me)
9
Feedin' the Rock
10
King of Guitar (take 1)
11
King of Guitar
12
Step It Up (aka Two Step Rock)
13
Low Rider (Broke and Hungry)
14
Jumpin' With B.B.
15
Night Long
16
Blues With B.B.
17
Calypso Jazz (aka Going South)
18
Slidin' and Glidin' (aka Really the Blues)
19
Fusion Jazz (take 1)
20
King's Rock Jazz
21
Slidin' and Glidin' (aka Really the Blues) (alt.)
CD 13: B.B. At the Recording (studio)
1
The Woman I Love (take 1-2)
2
The Woman I Love (take 3)
3
The Woman I Love (take 4)
4
The Woman I Love (take 5)
5
The Woman I Love (take 6-8)
6
The Woman I Love (take 9)
7
When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer (take 1)
8
When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer (take 2-6)
9
When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer (take 1-3, 1962)
10
When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer (take 5, 1962)
11
Don't You Want a Man Like Me (take 1-2)
12
Don't You Want a Man Like Me (take 3)
13
Don't You Want a Man Like Me (take 4-6)
14
Don't You Want a Man Like Me (take 7)
15
Don't You Want a Man Like Me (take 8)
16
Don't You Want a Man Like Me (take 9)
17
Confessin' the Blues (Incomplete)
18
Confessin' the Blues (take 5)
19
Confessin' the Blues (take 6-7)
20
Confessin' the Blues (take 8)
21
I Wonder Why (take 1)
22
I Wonder Why (take 2-3)
23
I Wonder Why (take 4)
24
I Wonder Why (take 5-7)
25
I Wonder Why (take 8)
26
Going Down Slow (Incomplete)
27
Going Down Slow (take 2)
28
Going Down Slow (take 3)
29
Going Down Slow (take 1, 1962)
30
Going Down Slow (take 2-4, 1962)
31
Going Down Slow (take 5, 1962)
32
Going Down Slow (take 6-7, 1962)
CD 14: B.B.'s Blues Revolution (Phase I)
1
Mistreated Woman (alt.)
2
The Other Night Blues (take 1)
3
The Other Night Blues (take 3)
4
Walkin' and Cryin' (take 2)
5
Walkin' and Cryin' (take 3)
6
Don't You Want a Man Like Me (alt.)
7
B.B. Blues (Incomplete)
8
A New Way of Driving
9
Fine Lookin' Woman (take 1)
10
Fine Lookin' Woman (take 3)
11
She's a Mean Woman (take 1)
12
Pray for You (take 2)
13
Darling I Love You
14
That Ain't the Way to Do It (alt.)
15
I Got a Woman Who Lives Upon the Hill
16
I Got a Girl Who Lives Up on the Hill
17
I'm So Glad
18
Lown Down Dirty Baby
19
Story From My Heart and Soul (take 1)
20
Woke Up This Morning (take 1)
21
Don't Have to Cry (Past Day) (take 1)
22
Please Love Me (take 1)
23
Blind Love (take 2)
24
Please Remember Me
CD 15: B.B.'s Blues Revolution (Phase Ii)
1
Everything I Do Is Wrong (take 2)
2
Whole Lotta Meat (take 10)
3
Everyday I Have the Blues (take 6)
4
I Was Blind
5
Jump With You Baby (take 6)
6
Shut Your Mouth (take 1)
7
I'm Cracking Up Over You (take 1)
8
Dark Is the Night Pt.1 (alt.)
9
Sweet Little Angel (take 2)
10
Bad Luck (take 1)
11
Troubles Troubles Troubles (aka Troubles Don't Last) (take 5)
12
Why I Sing the Blues (take 2)
13
Early in the Morning (aka early Every Morning) (take 2)
14
Don't Look Now, but I've Got the Blues (take 3)
15
Early in the Morning (aka early Every Morning) (1959)
16
I Stay in the Mood (take 5)
17
(I'm Gonna) Quit My Baby
18
Be Careful With a Fool (take 11)
19
Don't Keep Me Waiting
20
Don't Break Your Promise
21
You Know I Go for You (alt.)
22
Yesterday
23
I Love You So
24
You've Been an Angel (take 2)
25
If I Lost You
26
Why Not
27
Tomorrow Is Another Day
CD 16: B.B.'s Blues Revolution (Phase Iii)
1
Shake Yours (take 4)
2
Feel Like a Million
3
Treat Me Right (aka Oh Baby) (take 1-3)
4
We Can't Make It (take 4)
5
I Can't Explain
6
Please Set the Date (take 1)
7
Don't Cry Anymore
8
Partin' Time (take 1-3)
9
Someday (You're Gonna Miss Me)
10
I Need You, Baby
11
Loving You in Vain
12
Loving You in Vain (alt.)
13
The Jungle
14
Troubles Don't Last
15
Early This Morning
16
That's How Much You Mean to Me (take 3)
17
Someday Baby
18
Shotgun Blues
19
You're Gonna Miss Me
20
Mr. Pawn Broker
21
Love My Baby
22
What a Way to Go (alt.)
23
So Many Days
24
Someday (alt.)
25
Long Nights (The Feeling They Call the Blues (take 4))
CD 17: B.B.'s Blues Revolution (Phase Iv)
1
Eyesight to the Blind (take 1)
2
Eyesight to the Blind (take 2)
3
Eyesight to the Blind (take 3)
4
Eyesight to the Blind (take 4)
5
Eyesight to the Blind (take 4, alt.)
6
Radio Show Wvon
7
Ain't Nobody's Business (take 1)
8
Ain't Nobody's Business (take 2)
9
Ain't Nobody's Business (take 3)
10
Ain't Nobody's Business (take 3, alt.)
11
A Woman Don't Care (take 1)
12
A Woman Don't Care (take 2-3)
13
A Woman Don't Care (take 4)
14
A Woman Don't Care (take 5)
15
A Woman Don't Care (take 6-7)
16
A Woman Don't Care (take 8)
17
A Woman Don't Care (take 8, alt.)
18
Make Me Blue (take 1-2)
19
Make Me Blue (take 3)
20
Make Me Blue (take 9)
21
Make Me Blue (take 9, alt.)
22
Radio Spot: Advertising Kent LP
23
5 Long Years (take 1)
24
5 Long Years (take 3)
25
5 Long Years (take 5)
26
Blues Stay Away From Me (take 1-2)
27
Blues Stay Away From Me (take 3)
28
Blues Stay Away From Me (take 4-5)
29
Blues Stay Away From Me (take 6)
30
Blues Stay Away From Me (take 7)
12" Vinyl 18
1
Shake Yours
2
You Shouldn't Have Left
3
Going Down Slow
4
On My Word of Honor (take 1)
5
Strange Things
6
Walkin' (alt.)
7
Let Me Love You (alt.)
8
Worry Worry
9
Someday Baby
10
You Know I Love You
11
Lonely and Blue (take 3)
12
What a Way to Go
13
Shotgun Blues (original)
14
Your Fool (original)

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Release credits

B.B. King
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The Complete RPM-Kent Recording Box
12" Vinyl, 17x CD
16 December 2015