Introduction to Earl King [Original recording remastered]

Earl King | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 29, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Fuel 2000
• ASIN: B000GPI1C8
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,603 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Street Parade, Pt. 1

2. Nobody Cares

3. Those Lonely, Lonely Nights

4. Baby You Can Get Your Gun

5. Darling Honey Angel Child (Let the Good Times Roll)

6. Trick Bag

7. You Make Me Feel Good

8. Mama & Papa

9. Medieval Days

10. I'm Going to Kepp on Trying

11. Up on the Hill

12. This Is What I Call Living

13. A Part of Me

14. The Real McCoy

15. Fallin'

16. All My Love

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An Introduction To Earl King by Earl King

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A New Orleans blues singer with a spellbound guitar, February 9, 2007

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detakoizu "dekuzu" (Naha, Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Introduction to Earl King (Audio CD)

This introduction contains Earl King's Ace sides in the '50s (2.3.4), a Rex side in '60 (5), a live tune (6), and Street Parade tunes featuring the Meters in the early '70s. The song title No.2 is printed as "Nobody Cares", however, this turned out to be "Little Girl" really on this CD. The liner notes says about Earl's history including the interviews with Earl, and says little about the precise credit of his songs. Earl was not so often in the studio and made records sporadically, but I think he should gain more appreciations. This introduction minimally did his duty of presenting us his fine and a little high bluesy voice and his spellbound guitar largely influenced by Guitar Slim and rhythmic or funky backings of New Orleans.

1.0 out of 5 stars Great music, wretched sound, September 5, 2009

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B. Margolis (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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I just got this from Amazon second party sellers, and I'm glad the label deleted this, because the sound is quite horrible. Distorted, dubbed from disc, mono source playing in stereo with stereophonic surface noise. Garbled and quite horrible.

Earl King was one of the better New Orleans singers of the era, but this "introduction" is musically great, but sonicallly below bootleg quality.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Introduction To A New Orleans Legend, July 11, 2007

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Terence Allen (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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"An Introduction To Earl King" is a very nice collection of songs from the legendary New Orleans blues/R&B singer famous for recording the often-covered "Let The Good Times Roll".

That song, plus other gems such as "Nobody Cares," "Up On The Hill," "This Is What I Call Living," and other tunes demonstrate his rich, powerful voice, and strong but sometimes subtle guitar work.

Another bluesman who might otherwise be overlooked, this record will help to make sure that Earl King gets his due.