ALBERT KING • THE BIG BLUES • 1963 MONO LP KING 852 BLACK LABEL
  $   200

 


$ 200 Sold For
May 13, 2018 Sold Date
May 8, 2018 Start Date
1 Number Of Bids
  France Country Of Seller
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POSSESSING A FLUID, VERSATILE GUITAR STYLE AND A SMOKY, UNDERSTATED VOICE, ALBERT KING WAS A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON STEVIE RAY VAUGHN. BY THE TIME OF “THE BIG BLUES”, KING HAD LONG PERFECTED HIS SOUND AFTER YEARS OF TOURING. KINGS’ VOICE IS AS EXPRESSIVE AS ANY BLUES SINGER OF HIS TIME, INCLUDING MUDDY WATERS OR JIMMY REED (HE BACKED THE LATTER ON A NUMBER OF RECORDINGS). ALBERT KING IS REMEMBERED BY MANY FOR HIS DABBLING IN THE PSYCHEDELIC SOUNDS OF THE LATE 1960s, WHICH SET HIM APART FROM THE MORE CONSERVATIVE BLUES PLAYERS OF THE TIME ~ UP FOR AUCTION AN ORIGINAL 1962 PRESSING ON THE “KING” BLACK LABEL WITH BOTH COVER AND RECORD OFFERED IN VERY SHARP CONDITION...BACK SIDE OF THE COVER HAS TITLE CIRCLED IN PEN.





 


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