ALBERT KING - BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN STAX S-723 SPEAKERS CORNER 180 GRAM VINYL LP
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ALBERT KING - BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN
STAX S-723 SPEAKERS CORNER
180 GRAM VINYL LP
Label: Speakers Corner Records
Country: Germany
It took more than four decades of patient hard work until a discriminating congregation could proclaim Albert King as one of the three kings of the electric blues, alongside B. B. King and Freddie King. Albert had a tough but highly motivated beginning, playing blues on a guitar he had made himself. Later he bought a really good instrument, then came a couple of promising songs, and a series of successful singles made under a contract with Stax Records in Memphis. Finally, late in life, King landed on the sunny side with "Born Under A Bad Sign". The album became one of the most influential recordings in the history of the blues. King’s music was appreciated by white people too, which smoothed his path out of small clubs and on to big live events. Right from the title song, he travels along familiar tracks in the blues world, occasionally making a detour to hectic, soulful realms ("Crosscut Saw") and letting himself be carried away by strident winds ("Kansas City"). Over and over again, the musicians surprise one with ever new sound colourings, as in the hum and buzz of "Oh, Pretty Woman", the brusque admonitory "Down Don’t Bother Me", or the swinging fiddling of "The Hunter".
This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. More information under www.pure-analogue.com. All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid.
Recording: March 1966 - June 1967 at Stax Studios, Memphis (TN)
Production: Jim Stewart
"Born Under A Bad Sign" - Albert King (g, voc); Andrew Love, Wayne Jackson, Joe Arnold (The Memphis Horns); Booker T. Jones, Isaac Hayes (p); Steve Cropper (g); Donald "Duck" Dunn (b; Al Jackson, Jr. (dr
Pure Analogue Audiophile Recording
Opened but never played
placed into new Mofi record sleeve upon opening
Around the time of the first covid lockdown in 2020 I started to collect vinyl records. The plan was to buy a turntable. 12 months later I have collected over 120 records BUT still no turntable! To be honest, I've been enjoying streaming and digital sourced music generally along with the practical benefits that these music sources bring. I also didn't plan for the space records take up! I can't see me buying a turntable, and instead have started buying SACD's. I've really enjoyed the process of collecting vinyl despite not being able to play them! However, slowly I will start to part with them, a few at a time, as and when I feel like it. 90% of my records are audiophile quality pressings from the likes of MFSL, Analogue Productions, Speakers Corner, ORG etc. Despite having never played any of my records I still get pleasure from having them!
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