Live at the Regal

Sure. Christgau really likes it so I'll pretend I care about the blues more than I do.

That must have been a great concert. I'm afraid that as someone who wasn't there and listens to the recording over 60 years later, it loses a little of its otherwise certainly extraordinary effect. But the blues session I heard afterwards was nice. I also liked getting the hint to listen to B.B. King again. 3/5

I wasn't particularly impressed by this.

solidno, zabavno, iako mi format uživo baš i ne leži

Very good blues. Generally not my thing, but got enough of a Fallout-core thing going on that I enjoy it a little more than most blues. The crowd reactions are great and his voice is fantastic.

Didn’t expect to ascertain the origin of a primitive radio gods sample today.

The only thing better than a BB King album is a live BB King album. I just wish it was twice as long.

I’m not a fan of live albums at the best of times, so it doesn’t help that the audience is way too loud in the mix here.

This was better than I expected. I’m not much for blues music, I usually find it boring. I expected this just to be a guy playing guitar and singing. He had a full band with horns and everything, and as always, plus one for horns. That said, even with the extra instruments it was still dull at times.

I like jazz more than blues i gotta say. Stroong 3 tho

Compared to other great electric blues guitarists of the era, with either a leaning towards to the traditional acoustic blues greats (Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker) or the more uptempo rock and roll style (Buddy Guy), this album's prominent piano and horns parts giveit an extremely big band jazzy flair and the incredible vocals make it feel like a motown soul album. His playing feels generic now thanks to a billion blues dads, and it wasn't especially groundbreaking then in terms of the underlying theory or anything, but is such a perfectly realized version of it's genre - exquisite call and response phrasing and that brassy tone. You don't get a fundamental building block of lead guitar playing like pentatonic boxes named after you for no reason. If anything, he's an underrated singer though; he's really belting it out here - incredibly charismatic voice.

ББ Кінг чи не перший блюзмен якого я почув, бо у мого Тата була касета.

Але я чесно скажу, що при всій легендарності, його музика мені місцями видається ближчою до рокнролу, а місцями якоюсь занадто дефолтною. Цей концертник я ніколи не слухав і загалом мені сподобалось, бо на противагу студійкам, тут відчувається більше життя і навіть стандартні рокнрольні номери звучать задорно.

Gets introduced as "The King of the Blues" and for 35 incredible minutes, he's holding court

Excellent voice. You can tell from the audience's reactions that he had a magical presence on stage. The King of the Blues prevails.

While I don't typically enjoy live albums due to the cheering and stuff but I found this album to be very enjoyable.

A quintessential blues album. His vocals just cut right through you. The tight backing instrumentation lets it shine.

3s across the board. Not offensive or spectacular.

Vrij toegankelijk prima uitgevoerd blues-optreden. Niet zo heel veel over op te merken. Het mist wellicht iets extra's. Maar niets mis mee.

The Good: King of the Blues live!
The Bad: live albums can be a little too exciting than reality showed it to be.
The Ugly: this album will make you blue...

I love me some BB, and thankfully the album isn't too long.
Probably the best live version of How Blue Can You Get?

3* because of the above

I've been super against live albums on this list so far, but I have to admit that it improves this. Must have been an amazing concert.