King made his debut as producer with Blues on the Bayou, released in October 1998.
He employs the most basic of ideas for this project: record an album of B.B.
King tunes, with B.B.
King's regular road band, under B.B.
King's supervision.
Keeping it loose, relaxed, and focused, King cut this album in four days down at a secluded studio in Louisiana and came up with one of his strongest, modern-day albums in many years.
No duets, no special guests, just King and his road warrior band, playing his songs with him producing the results -- no overdubs, just simple, no-nonsense blues done like he would do them on-stage.
The result is a no-frills, straight-ahead session that shows that King might be have been 73 at the time of this date, but he still had plenty of gas left in the tank.
Tracks like "I'll Survive," and the jumping "Shake It Up and Go," "Darlin' What Happened," the minor keyed "Blues Boy Tune," the instrumental "Blues We Like," and the closing "If That's It I Quit" show him stretching out in a way he has seldom done in a studio environment, and the result is one of his best albums in recent memory.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I'll SurviveRiley King, Sam Ling | B.B. King | Play | 04:50 | 11 MB | 30 MB |
| 2 | Blues ManB.B. King, Riley King | B.B. King | Play | 05:19 | 12 MB | 33 MB |
| 3 | Blues Boys Tune (Album Version) | B.B. King | Play | 03:29 | 8 MB | 21 MB |
| 4 | Bad Case Of Love (Album Version) | B.B. King | Play | 05:28 | 12 MB | 36 MB |
| 5 | Darlin' What Happened (Album Version) | B.B. King | Play | 05:26 | 12 MB | 34 MB |
| 6 | Shake It Up And Go (Album Version) | B.B. King | Play | 03:10 | 7 MB | 18 MB |
| 7 | Blues We Like (Album Version) | B.B. King | Play | 05:08 | 11 MB | 31 MB |
| 8 | Good Man Gone Bad (Album Version) | B.B. King | Play | 03:20 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 9 | If I Lost You (Album Version) | B.B. King | Play | 04:57 | 11 MB | 33 MB |
| 10 | Tell Me Baby (Album Version) | B.B. King | Play | 03:26 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 11 | I Got Some Outside Help I Don't Need (Album Version) | B.B. King | Play | 04:37 | 10 MB | 30 MB |
| 12 | Blues In G (Album Version) | B.B. King | Play | 03:28 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 13 | If That Ain't It I Quit (Album Version) | B.B. King | Play | 03:20 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 14 | Mean Ole' World (Album Version) | B.B. King | Play | 04:29 | 10 MB | 29 MB |
| 15 | Broken Promise (Album Version) | B.B. King | Play | 03:34 | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| 64 mins | 147 MB | |||||
| 64 mins | 416 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanley Abernathy | Trumpet |
| 2 | Jules Bihari | Composer |
| 3 | James Bolden | Leader, Trumpet |
| 4 | Dave Clark | Composer |
| 5 | Tony Coleman | Percussion |
| 6 | Tony Daigle | Engineer |
| 7 | Calep Emphrey | Drums |
| 8 | Melvin Jackson | Saxophone |
| 9 | B.B. King | Composer, Guitar, Primary Artist, Producer |
| 10 | Riley King | Composer |
| 11 | Martie Kolbl | Coordination |
| 12 | Sam Ling | Composer |
| 13 | Stephen Marcussen | Mastering |
| 14 | Phillip Marshall | String Arrangements |
| 15 | Joe McGrath | Mixing |
| 16 | John Porter | Mixing |
| 17 | Sidney Seidenberg | Executive Producer |
| 18 | Jules Taub | Composer |
| 19 | James Toney | Keyboards |
| 20 | Leon Warren | Guitar |
| 21 | Ferdinand Washington | Composer |
| 22 | Jim Watts | Assistant Engineer |
| 23 | Kevin Westenberg | Photography |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |