My Kind of Blues
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My Kind of Blues is an album released by B. B. King
B. B. King
Riley B. King , known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No.3 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. According to Edward M...

 in 1961. A remastered and expanded edition was released in 2003.

Track listing

  1. "You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now" (King, Joe Josea) — 5:15
  2. "Mr. Pawnbroker" (King, Jules Taub) — 3:16
  3. "Understand" (Cecil Gant
    Cecil Gant
    Cecil Gant was an American blues singer and pianist.-Biography:Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Gant worked local clubs through the mid 1930s up until the Second World War, when he enlisted in the United States Army. Though his piano was blues-based, vocally he was a crooner of considerable...

    ) — 2:39
  4. "Someday Baby
    Worried Life Blues
    "Worried Life Blues" is a song that has become one of the most recorded blues songs of all time. Originally recorded by Major "Big Maceo" Merriweather in 1941, "Worried Life Blues" was an early blues hit and Maceo's most recognized song...

    " (Lightnin' Hopkins
    Lightnin' Hopkins
    Sam John Hopkins better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Houston, Texas...

    ) — 2:54
  5. "Driving Wheel
    Driving Wheel (song)
    "Driving Wheel", also called "Drivin' Wheel" or "Driving Wheel Blues", is blues song recorded by Roosevelt Sykes in 1936...

    " (Roosevelt Sykes
    Roosevelt Sykes
    Roosevelt Sykes was an American blues musician, also known as "The Honeydripper". He was a successful and prolific cigar-chomping blues piano player, whose rollicking thundering boogie-woogie was highly influential.-Career:Born in Elmar, Arkansas, Sykes grew up near Helena but at age 15, went on...

    ) — 2:52
  6. "Walking Dr. Bill" (Doctor Clayton
    Doctor Clayton
    Doctor Clayton was an American blues singer and songwriter.-Biography:Peter Joe Clayton was born in Georgia, though he later claimed he had been born in Africa, and moved to St. Louis as a child with his family. He had four children and worked in a factory in St...

    ) — 3:41
  7. "My Own Fault", aka "It's My Fault" (King) — 3:34
  8. "Fishin' After Me", aka "Catfish Blues" (Robert Petway
    Robert Petway
    Robert Petway was an African-American blues singer and guitarist.Very little is known about Robert Petway. His birth place is speculated to have been at or near J.F. Sligh Farm near Yazoo City, Mississippi, birth place of his close friend and fellow bluesman Tommy McClennan. His birth date is...

    ) — 2:29
  9. "Hold That Train" (Clayton) — 3:58
  10. "Please Set a Date" (Minnie McCoy
    Memphis Minnie
    Memphis Minnie was an American blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. She was the only female blues artist considered a match to male contemporaries as both a singer and an instrumentalist.-Career:...

    ) — 2:49
  11. "Sunny Road" (Sykes) * — 2:57
  12. "Running Wild" * — 2:19
  13. "Blues at Sunrise" (Ivory Joe Hunter
    Ivory Joe Hunter
    Ivory Joe Hunter was an American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid 1940s, he became more widely known for his hit recording, "Since I Met You Baby" . He was billed as The Baron of the Boogie, and also known as The...

    )* — 3:00
  14. "Drifting Blues
    Driftin' Blues
    "Driftin' Blues" or "Drifting Blues" is a blues standard done in the West Coast blues style. Written and first recorded by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers,the song became one of the biggest blues hits of the 1940s. Over the years, it has been interpreted and recorded by numerous artists...

    " (Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
    Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
    Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers were a successful and influential African-American vocal and instrumental group in the 1940s and 1950s.The original members were :-Johnny Moore and his younger brother Oscar grew up in Texas and then Phoenix, Arizona, where they both started playing guitar and formed...

    ) * — 3:15
  15. "Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door" (Casey Bill Weldon
    Casey Bill Weldon
    Casey Bill Weldon was an American country blues musician, born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas who later lived and worked in Chicago was known as one of the great early pioneers of the slide guitar. He played upbeat, hokum and country blues tunes, both as a solo artist and as a member of the Memphis Jug...

    ) * — 2:46
  16. "Look the World Over" (Ernest Lawlars
    Ernest Lawlers
    Ernest Lawlers was an American blues guitarist, vocalist, and composer, also known as Little Son Joe.- Life and career :Lawlers was born in Hughes, Arkansas, United States...

    ) [undubbed version] * — 3:23
  17. "Walking Dr. Bill" (Clayton) [overdub] * — 3:44
  18. "Hold That Train" (Clayton) * — 5:05

  • Tracks 11-18 are only included on the 2003 re-released version.
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