JIMMY KING: Live At Monterey (2002) Bullseye Blues
Posted on July 3, 2008
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Recorded live at: The Monterey Bay Blues Festival, Patee Arena, Monterey, California on June 27, 1999 and at Ardent Recording Studios, Memphis, Tennessee 1994. Includes liner notes by Bob Porter.
Personnel: Jimmy King (vocals, guitar); Michael Taylor (guitar); Archie Turner (organ); Victor Butler, Melvin Lee (bass); Roy Cunningham (drums).
Jimmy King was born Manuel Gales 34 years ago in Memphis. He changed his name as a tribute to guitarists Jimi Hendrix and Albert King. Albert King dubbed him his musical Godson and ‘Little’ Jimmy played in Albert’s traveling revue before the latter’s death in 1992. Jimmy King has all of Albert’s fat, fiery tone and his incendiary live performances are already legendary. This disc captures one such show from beginning to end, in real time, while adding four studio tracks, complete with the Memphis Horns, as a bonus.
Although he’s too young to have lived through it, King’s playing conjures up the sounds of Memphis in its greasy heyday, when Stax and Hi records reigned supreme and Beale Street stood in decay. He offers funky covers of legendary Hi producer Willie Mitchell’s ‘Living In The Danger Zone’ and ‘It Ain’t The Same No Mo’, as well as a number of tunes associated with his honorary Godfather Albert King on what is one of the best live blues recordings in some time.
- Al Kirkcaldy August 2002 Southwest Blues
Tracks:
1. Introduction: The Ghetto
2. Somebody
3. Don’t Burn Down the Bridges
4. Living in the Danger Zone
5. Drowning on Dry Land
6. Standing in the Rain
7. It Ain’t the Same No Mo
8. I Wonder Why
9. Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
10. Wrapped up in Love Again
11. Floodin’ in California
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