Your Favorite King

Just Wondering-- Who is your Favorite King , Albert, Freddie, Or B.B. ?

I'm an Albert guy!

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Permalink Reply by Chad Nordhoff on May 20, 2010 at 1:22pm

I was listening to WDIA on Saturday and heard a bass/drums/keyboard intro that was vaguely familiar. The very first guitar note was a dead giveaway. Definitely, unmistakeably, B.B.!

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Permalink Reply by Michael Wilson on June 7, 2010 at 6:59am

Hello,
I am a new member here. Looks to be the place I'm looking for. B.B. is my fav. I have tickets to see him on July,18th outside Washington D.C. Can't Wait!!!!! I also like Albert.. Glad to be here!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Cooper on June 8, 2010 at 7:38am

Welcome Michael I am also new here.

Which King......well.....

Mondays and Thursdays I like BB,
Tuesdays and Fridays I like Albert,
Wednesdays and Saturdays I like Freddy,
On sunday I like 'em all....

I might be able to turn that into a lyric......Might call it "King of the Blues"....:-)

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Permalink Reply by Michael Wilson on June 8, 2010 at 7:46am

Thanks Joseph....Glad to see you here!!

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Kallman on August 12, 2011 at 11:22am

Try that lyric as "We Three Kings" . . . !

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Kallman on August 12, 2011 at 11:22am

For me it's a tossup between B.B. and Albert. If it hadn't been for B.B. King in the summer of 1969, when I saw and heard him for the first time, I never would have tried to play a guitar seriously myself. I caught onto Albert King a short time after that and he nailed me, too.

This is nothing against Freddie King, I think he was one of the greats, too, but I far prefer his King/Federal work to his later work, and I just don't hold him in the same league as Lucille's man or Big Albert . . .

p.s. I'm a newbie myself. And macaroni and cheese makes me want to puke.

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Permalink Reply by Patti on August 14, 2011 at 3:39pm

Albert King without hesitation....and more so when he plays something like this: (always)

As The Years Go Passing By

Red House

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Permalink Reply by THE BLUESBONE BAND on August 17, 2011 at 3:35pm

well I believe it's BB King.I mean, all of them are great, but BB is THE KING!

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Permalink Reply by Joey Gunter on August 28, 2011 at 11:51pm

Hi guys (and ladies!), newbie myself although I'm actually no spring chicken!

Freddie King is one of my all time guitar heroes! I learned a ton of dangerously COOL licks from his early stuff. Listen to Clapton on the Beano album and for MUCH of that album he's quoting (in blues-speak that's paying tribute to...;-) Freddie king!

Back in the old days B and Albert shared a show at the one of the Fillmores. Wasn't there myself but I've heard this story from several who were. After B's set Albert came back out and they jammed a bit. As was usually the case things came to a bit of a showdown. They used to call it "cuttin' heads". After a particularly spectacular "run" of notes all bent from the same fret B actually dropped to his knees and bowed (the "I'm not worthy" move) to Albert. Albert was one of the most amazing and original stylists to ever bend a string.

B B King is NOTHING short of an icon and deservedly so. He took his influnces and blazed a trail for ALL of us to have to follow and he's STILL GOING!!! And B was the MAN who brought blues form the world that was a huge black audience with some eclectic white fans into the MAINSTREAM of music and to the much larger white audience. THANK YOU MR. RILEY B KING! Nothing short of amazing.

Who's the best? Impossible for me to pick! I really like Joseph's weekly breakdown though!