Friends [Original recording remastered][Import]

B.B. King

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 15, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1974
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
• ASIN: B00002445L
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #415,256 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Friends

2. I Got Them Blues

3. Baby I'm Yours

4. Up at 5am

5. Philadelphia

6. When Everything Else Is Gone

7. My Song

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

B.B. King & Friends. Dave Brubeck & Heath Brothers --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a bit dishonest, February 24, 2005

By	B "bac-n-bob" (Pa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: B.B. King & Friends (Audio CD)

Each of the selections are ok - but they're all replays of previous recordings. But mainly, titling it `BB King & Friends' mischievously leads one to assume, as I did, that BB, Brubeck, & Heath Bros. at different times performed TOGETHER (which they do not!). I mean, that's how it usually is on albums titled like this. I feel robbed.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars B.B. King portion of this CD, December 1, 2004

By	Lawrence A Team "A team member" (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: B.B. King & Friends (Audio CD)

This CD is a composite of three talents. I am only addressing the BB King selections.
His portion is what I always was looking for. Essentially a recording of a live performance. Not a polished dressed up studio job but a gritty, soulful real stage performance where BB earns his living and forged his unique style. I see BB every time he comes by. His live performances with his high mileage tried and true entourage of accompanying musicians outshine his recordings. This album has full length versions "The Thrill is Gone" and the best version of "Guess Who" you will ever hear in your entire life. His voice and health was at its peak and this CD has captured his essence. It's that good.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Friends and...B.B. King!, May 23, 2000

By	Ricardo Neves Gonzalez (Petrópolis-R.J. [e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: B.B. King & Friends (Audio CD)

In spite of an ecletical mixed of rythms,this work must reveal all of the influences and friends this man captivated along his career as one of the great musicians of all the times! One of the most beautiful things of the blues,is for me,the capacity to put together on a stage,a great number of distinct musicians,in a great spirit of confraternization,tha is an example for the mankind in this wartimes! B.B. King you really must always be with many many friends.You're fantastic man!