Live Wire/Blues Power

Live Wire / Blues Power

Live album by Albert King

Released

1968

Recorded

1968

Genre

Blues

Length

38:16

Albert King chronology

Born Under a Bad Sign
(1967)

Live Wire/Blues Power
(1968)

Years Gone By
(1969)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Rolling Stone	(positvie) ^[1]

Live Wire/Blues Power is a Blues album by Albert King, recorded live in June 1968 at the Fillmore Auditorium. This was Albert King's first live album. Leftovers from these live recordings were released later in 1990 in the albums Wednesday Night in San Francisco and Thursday Night in San Francisco.

Track listing

"Watermelon Man" (Herbie Hancock) – 4:04
"Blues Power" (King) – 10:18
"Night Stomp" (Raymond Jackson, King) – 5:49
"Blues At Sunrise" (King) – 8:44
"Please Love Me" (B.B. King, Jules Taub) – 4:01
"Look Out" (King) – 5:20

Personnel

Albert King – Electric guitar and vocals
Willie James Exon – Guitar
James Washington – Organ
Roosevelt Pointer – Bass
Theotis Morgan – drums

References

↑ Greenberg, Jerrold (November 23, 1968). "Records". Rolling Stone (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.). Retrieved July 15, 2014.

Albert King

Studio albums	The Big Blues (1962) Born Under a Bad Sign (1967) Years Gone By (1969) Blues for Elvis - King Does the King's Things (1970) Lovejoy (1971) I'll Play the Blues for You (1972) I Wanna Get Funky (1974) The Pinch aka The Blues Don't Change (1974)

Live albums	Live Wire/Blues Power (1968) Blues at Sunrise (1988) Wednesday Night In San Francisco (1990) Thursday Night in San Francisco (1990) Blues at Sunset (1993) In Session (1999)

Compilations	Wattstax (1972) Montreux Festival (1974) Hard Bargain (1996)

Singles	"I Get Evil" (1962) "Crosscut Saw" (1967) "Born Under a Bad Sign" (1967) "As the Years Go Passing By" (1969) "The Hunter" (1969) "The Very Thought of You" (1979)

Other songs	"Kansas City" (1967) "I Almost Lost My Mind" (1967) "Watermelon Man" (1968) "Every Day I Have the Blues" (1968) "Drifting Blues" (1968) "Killing Floor" (1969) "The Sky Is Crying" (1969) "You Don't Love Me" (1969) "Hound Dog" (1970) "What'd I Say" (1971) "She Caught the Katy" (1971) 1972: "I'll Be Doggone" (1972) 1973: "Match Box Blues" (1973) "Stormy Monday" (1973) 1976: "I'm Ready" (1976) "My Babe" (1976) "Dust My Broom" (1984) "Red House" (1992)

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