B.B. King - Riding with the King

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Apr 20, 2016 Sold Date

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Artikel Name: Riding with the King
Genre: Pop englischsprachig Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: Reprise Records Titelanzahl: 12

Trackliste LP - 1

1. Eric Clapton / B.B. King - Riding With the King 2. Eric Clapton / B.B. King - Ten Long Years 3. Eric Clapton / B.B. King - Key to the Highway 4. Eric Clapton / B.B. King - Marry You 5. Eric Clapton / B.B. King - Three O'Clock Blues 6. Eric Clapton / B.B. King - Help the Poor

Trackliste LP - 2

7. Eric Clapton / B.B. King - I Wanna Be 8. Eric Clapton / B.B. King - Worried Life Blues 9. Eric Clapton / B.B. King - Days of Old 10. Eric Clapton / B.B. King - When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer 11. Eric Clapton / B.B. King - Hold On I'm Coming 12. Eric Clapton / B.B. King - Come Rain or Come Shine

Beschreibung

The potential for a collaboration between B.B. King and Eric Clapton is enormous, of course, and the real questions concern how it is organized and executed. This first recorded pairing between the 74-year-old King and the 55-year-old Clapton was put together in the most obvious way: Clapton arranged the session using many of his regular musicians, picked the songs, and co-produced with his partner Simon Climie. That ought to mean that King would be a virtual guest star rather than earning a co-billing, but because of Clapton's respect for his elder, it nearly works the other way around. The set list includes lots of King specialties -- "Ten Long Years," "Three O'Clock Blues," "Days of Old," "When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer" -- as well as standards like "Hold on I'm Coming" and "Come Rain or Come Shine," with some specially written and appropriate recent material thrown in, so King has reason to be comfortable without being complacent. The real danger is that Clapton will defer too much; though he can be inspired by a competing guitarist such as Duane Allman, he has sometimes tended to lean too heavily on accompanists such as Albert Lee and Mark Knopfler when working with them in concert. That danger is partially realized; as its title indicates, Riding with the King is more about King than it is about Clapton. But the two players turn out to have sufficiently complementary, if distinct, styles so that Clapton's supportive role fills out and surrounds King's stinging single-string playing. (It's also worth noting that there are usually another two or three guitarists on each track.) The result is an effective, if never really stunning, work. [Riding with the King was re-released on vinyl in 2014.] ~ William Ruhlmann

William Ruhlmann