B.B. King - Blues In My Heart (Great Album US 1962)
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It's been
speculated that Blues in My Heart was recorded in late 1961 right
before B.B. King left Modern for ABC, possibly with everything getting
cut in one session. If that was the case, it might account for the
grind-it-out feel of these ten small-combo sides (probably with Plas
Johnson on sax and Maxwell Davis on keyboards), which are lacking in
noteworthy songs, with the possible exception of "Downhearted" (aka
"How Blue Can You Get?").
King, of course, brings committed
singing and playing to the session; he was too much of a pro to give
anything less than that to everything he did in the studio back then.
Even by the adjusted standards of King's brand of urban blues, however,
these songs just sound too similar to each other to rate among his
better work, often sticking to a slow to midtempo shuffle and nearly
identical chord progressions. Fact is, when "Troubles Don't Last"
follows "Got 'Em Bad," the arrangement's so similar that at first
you're wondering whether it's "Got 'Em Bad, Pt. 2" (though it isn't).
"Downhearted"
does have a renowned if slightly cruel lyric, though, especially when
B.B. changes to a stuttering tempo and complains, "I gave you seven
children/And now you want to give them back!" Still, even that
particular song was done more memorably on King's famous concert album
Live at the Regal a few years later. Note that the version of "Got 'Em
Bad" is different from the one that came out on a Kent single in 1965,
which added a Maxwell Davis piano overdub.
Tracklist:
01 You're Gonna Miss Me (2:49)
02 Got 'Em Bad (2:59)
03 Troubles Don't Last (3:28)
04 Your Letter (3:33)
05 I Can't Explain (3:31)
06 TheWrong Road (3:03)
07 I Need You Baby (3:29)
08 So Many Days (3:20)
09 How Blue Can You Get? (Aka Downhearted) (3:15)
10 Strange Things (3:30)
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