ALBERT KING 'YEARS GONE BY' NEAR MINT VINYL MASTER DELIVERS DYNAMIC BLUES POWER
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ALBERT KING 'YEARS GONE BY' NEAR MINT VINYL! THE MASTER DELIVERS DYNAMIC BLUES POWER!

Years Gone By 

Review

 

by Cub Koda

All Music.com

King cranked out this solid, if typical, album for the Stax label after the success of Born Under a Bad Sign. With Booker T. drummer Al Jackson producing, the set includes such staples as "You Threw Your Love on Me Too Strong," "Wrapped up in Love Again," and a powerful version of Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor." For fans of King's guitar work, the inclusion of the instrumental workouts on "You Don't Love Me" and "Drowning on Dry Land" are a special bonus. Not an essential Albert King album, but one of his good ones.

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Jeff Kallman

July 26, 2017

 Big Albert's first true Stax album ("Born Under a Bad Sign," after all, was mostly a singles compilation) delivers the goods in terms of King's happy marriage between blues and Southern soul. The singular guitar tone and King's alternately muscular and lyrical bends and lines mate even more acutely to the Stax sound here. Some of the material isn't quite up to King's standard, but the material that is is as essential for King fans in particular and blues fans in general as anything in his book. And he seems to be trying to become the king of the answer song, while he's at it, with the indirect "Laundromat Blues" answer "If the Washing Don't Get You, The Rinsing Will" and the more overt "You Threw Your Love on Me Too Strong." The covers of Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" and Elmore James's "The Sky is Crying" are remarkable for King's ability to dig into their core and come up with something entirely his own. Coming on the heels of his triumphs meeting the rock audiences at the Fillmore Auditorium (captured first on "Live Wire/Blues Power" prior to this release), King's at the top of his game and still feeling the love.

Albert King – Years Gone By

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Label:Stax – STS 2010Format:Vinyl, LP, Album, StereoCountry:USReleased:1969Genre:Funk / Soul, BluesStyle:Rhythm & Blues, Soul

Tracklist

A1Wrapped Up In Love Again2:18A2You Don't Love Me (Instrumental)2:26A3Cockroach3:18A4Killing Floor3:05A5Lonely Man2:39A6If The Washing Don't Get You The Rinsing Will2:12B1Drowning On Dry Land3:54B2Drowning On Dry Land (Instrumental)2:38B3Heart Fixing Business2:41B4You Threw Your Love On Me Too Strong3:14B5Sky Is Crying4:09

Credits

  • Art Direction – Honeya Thompson
  • Engineer [Recording] – Ron Capone
  • Photography By [Cover] – Don Paulsen
  • Producer, Arranged By [Arranger] – Al Jackson*

Notes

Recorded February 1969.

"926 East McLemore, Memphis address, Div. Of Paramount Pictures Corp." yellow Stax labels.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout ((Side 1) Etched): XSBV-130038-1D STL-0023
  • Matrix / Runout ((Side 2) Etched): XSBV-130039-1B STL-0024
 


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