Track Listing

1. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
2. I Get So Weary
3. Get These Blues Off Me
4. How Many More Years
5. Waiting For Your Call
6. My Love Is Down
7. The World Is Gone Wrong
8. Blues Before Sunrise
9. Midnight Blues
10. Backwater Blues
11. Sitting On Top Of The World
12. Tomorrow Night

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17936 in Music
• Released on: 2008-09-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 57 minutes

CD Description
Though he's created some of the most essential, elemental blues in musical history, B.B. King has never shied away fromexploring different directions, and some might say he's occasionally ventured too far afield. ONE KIND FAVOR should silence those doubters; with the help of superproducer T-Bone Burnett's roots noir approach, it finds King delivering gritty, impassioned interpretations of the tunes that influenced him in the 1950s. From his soulful, syncopated take on BlindLemon Jefferson's country blues classic "See That My Grave is Kept Clean" to the Chicago-style stomping takeover of theMississippi Sheiks' "The World Is Gone Wrong", King proves that at the age of 82 he can still turn out fiery, energeticmusic as undeniably vital as anything being produced by artists a third of his age.

Customer Reviews

THE KING STILL REIGNS SUPREME.
B.B.King maybe now in his eighties,he may sit down to play these days on stage but I'll tell you what,he's still the king of the blues and that's not just in his name.This album,produced by T Bone Burnette ( who produced the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss multi- award winning album last year)is a collection of blues classics never before recorded by BB.This is a totally wonderful album,and may well go down as one of his best albums ever.He's in top form throughout,with a band that includes Dr. John and Jim Keltner T-Bone has brought a truly classic album out,produced with a classic 50's blues sound,yet with a pure and beautiful sound balance throughout.This is an album no true blues or should I say music fan should miss.Without doubt blues album of the year if not one of the great blues albums of all time.I played this to my son who thinks it's really great that sums it up...a truly great album.

Impeccable
Look folks I was going to buy this out of pure nostalgia anyway - but I have to tell you this is just about as good as it gets - definitely his best ever studio recording. The voice is as good as ever, and no one ever ever could get the same sounds out of a guitar as he gets out of "Lucille". Every track a winner and what a band - featuring the incomparable Dr John on piano. The production is faultless. If you have any affection for the blues you simply have to buy this. Without question a 5 star item.

Solid stuff from BBK
I bought this particular cd on the strength of some of the press reviews - which suggested that it was BBk' best for some while.

Its good, and worth having in your collection , if your a fan - but oddly I find it a bit too stripped down and all the tracks are a wee bit samey. It almost sounds like theve found a BPM and worked the whole album around that...

3.5 Stars ........Good - but not great

Mind you - for a man in his 80's its pretty sensational. One Kind Favor