The King of Blues: Essential Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  How Blue Can You Get?
  2:42
  2.0 ★
• 2
  Sinner’s Prayer

  B.B. King & Ray Charles
  4:24
• 3
  Recession Days
  2:24
• 4
  The Thrill Is Gone

  B.B. King, Dave Brubeck & Pat Metheny
  4:40
• 5
  Everyday I Have the Blues
  5:02
• 6
  All Over Again
  7:07
• 7
  In the Midnight Hour

  B.B. King, Etta James, Gladys Knight & Chaka Khan
  4:12
• 8
  B.B.’s Boogie
  3:16
• 9
  A New Way of Driving
  1:55
• 10
  Sweet Sixteen
  4:18
• 11
  King’s Shuffle
  3:14
• 12
  Born Under a Bad Sign
  5:30
• CD 2
• 1
  Mr. Pawnbroker
  3:15
• 2
  Please Love Me
  2:48
  2.0 ★
• 3
  That Evil Child
  3:54
• 4
  Paying the Cost to Be the Boss

  B.B. King, Dave Brubeck & Pat Metheny
  6:09
• 5
  Sweet Little Angel
  5:08
• 6
  My Guitar Sings the Blues
  3:40
• 7
  Help the Poor
  2:39
• 8
  Catfish Blues
  2:26
• 9
  Guess Who?

  B.B. King, Dave Brubeck & Pat Metheny
  5:40
• 10
  The Letter
  3:26
• 11
  Lonely Nights
  3:32
• 12
  Woke Up This Morning (My Baby’s Gone)
  2:58
• CD 3
• 1
  Outside Help
  7:37
• 2
  There’s Something on Your Mind

  B.B. King & Etta James
  5:59
• 3
  Summer in the City
  3:14
• 4
  Why I Sing the Blues
  4:18
• 5
  So Excited
  5:34
  2.5 ★
• 6
  Nobody Loves Me but My Mother
  4:47
• 7
  I’ve Got a Mind to Give Up Living
  5:29
• 8
  Please Love Me
  3:02
• 9
  Ain’t Nobody Business

  B.B. King & Etta James
  4:20
• 10
  The Other Night Blues
  3:35
• 11
  Ain’t Nobody Home
  7:25
• 12
  Paying the Cost to Be the Boss (Different version)
  2:37

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 [1.1, 2.2, 3.5], lead vocals [5], vocal [1.1, 2.2]
• Bill Harvey
  arranger [2], tenor saxophone [2]
• Bill Szymczyk
  producer [5], recording [5]
• Carl Adams
  trumpet [1]
• Charles Brooks
  piano [1]
• Charles Crosby
  congas [2]
• Connie McBooker
  piano [2]
• Floyd Jones
  trumpet [2]
• George Coleman
  alto saxophone [2]
• Herb Lovelle
  membranophone [5]
• Hugh McCracken
  guitar [5]
• James Walker
  bass [2]
• Jane Feather
  performer [1]
• Jerome Richardson
  baritone saxophone [1]
• Jerry Jemmott
  bass [5]
• Joe Bihari
  producer [2]
• Joe Zagarino
  recording [5]
• Kenny Sands
  trumpet [1]
• Lawrence Burdine
  alto saxophone [1]
• Leo Lauchie
  bass [1]
• Leonard Feather
  performer [1]
• Maxwell Davis
  arranger [1], conductor [1]
• Paul Harris
  electric piano [5], organ [5], piano [5]
• Sid Feller
  producer [1]
• Sonny Freeman
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Ted Curry
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Vernon Slater
  tenor saxophone [1]
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Issues

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  The King of Blues: Essential Collection

  3x CD
  2012