B.B. King - Live In Cook County Jail (Black Vinyl)

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Black Vinyl 180 Gram Reissue
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  • Label Geffen Records
  • Format Vinyl, LP, Album
  • Format details Black Vinyl 180 Gram Reissue
  • Media 1 x Vinyl
  • Release date Sep 18, 2015
  • Originally released 1971
  • Region US
  • Genres Blues
  • UPC 602547437976
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180-Gram Black Vinyl LP Reissue

Geffen Records and Universal Music Enterprises reissued Live In Cook County Jail as a single 180-gram black vinyl LP in September 2015, carrying all eight tracks of the original album across two sides.

King played the set on the afternoon of September 10, 1970, inside Cook County Jail in Chicago, to an audience of roughly 2,117 inmates. Winston Moore, the jail's warden, had invited him after seeing him perform at Mister Kelly's nightclub earlier that year, and Jerry Butler helped arrange the date. Bill Szymczyk produced the recording, and ABC Records released it in January 1971.

His band that day was Ron Levy on piano, John Browning on trumpet, Louis Hubert on tenor saxophone, Brooke Walker on alto saxophone, Wilbert Freeman on bass and Sonny Freeman on drums. The set runs through "Every Day I Have the Blues," "How Blue Can You Get?" and "Sweet Sixteen," and includes "The Thrill Is Gone" along with a medley of "3 O'Clock Blues" and "Darlin' You Know I Love You."

The album spent 31 weeks on Billboard's R&B albums chart and reached No. 1 there, the only King album to do so, and peaked at No. 25 on the Top LPs chart. Rolling Stone placed it at No. 499 on its 2012 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and the Blues Foundation inducted it into its Hall of Fame in 2002.

Tracklist

Side A

  1. Introductions
  2. Every Day I Have The Blues
  3. How Blue Can You Get?
  4. Worry, Worry

Side B

  1. Medley: 3 O'Clock Blues / Darlin' You Know I Love You
  2. Sweet Sixteen
  3. The Thrill Is Gone
  4. Please Accept My Love

Complete the Collection

Two B.B. King titles at Evergreen Vinyl, this one included: The Montreux Years.

UPC: 602547437976
Label: Geffen Records
Release Date: 9.18.15
Format: Vinyl