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New York Post By Rich Calder A slew of boldface names in politics and sports has been enlisted for a rally today to garner support for the embattled Atlantic Yards project. The Rev. Al Sharpton, Curtis Sliwa, former New Jersey Nets Darryl Dawkins and Albert King and hundreds of union members who support developer Bruce Ratner's $4 billion project are expected to attend at Borough Hall. Daniel Goldstein,...
Rhino's 1993 double-disc set The Ultimate Collection remains the greatest-of-all Albert King collection, gathering the best of his recordings. True, the collection is tilted toward his Stax recordings, somewhat shortchanging his '50s and early-'60s recordings, but it is also true that the late-'60s/early-'70s recordings are the cornerstone of King's legacy, the ones that showcase his stinging guitar...
Doing Wednesday's post, I remembered that the Stax-Volt Yuletide Thing in 1968 was where I first met Albert King, through my bud Rufus Thomas. I had a few chats with Albert after that, the last one at the lower level of the Criminal Justice Center in Memphis (Albert got busted more than once for gambling). Here's "Born Under A Bad Sign": OK, I might as well do a two-fer, but I'm skipping the
Canarsie Courier City Councilman Lew Fidler joined former New Jersey Nets star Albert King last week to show local youth the importance of reading in an event coordinated by Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC). Fidler and King read to dozens of students at P.S. 207... article
Jammed Together is somewhat of a surprise jam disc featuring three musicians with seemingly little in common. Pops Staples, Steve Cropper and Albert King. Pops Staples, the leader of the Staple singers, started his solo career at the ripe age of seventy. Pops played guitar with incredible agility for a man of seventy and his voice has been described as rough and sweet, sometimes wispy but full of soul....
Well since John Mayall has just had his 70th birthday concert released on DVD Blues fans should be interested his highly original and unusual teaming with the late great Albert King. The set was recorded at Wolfman Jack's home studio in L.A. in just one day August 20, 1971 and features a line up that was to become part of Mayall's Jazz-Fusion ideas in the 1970s. This LP is very different. Albert plays...
opens the lid, takes a deep breath, in the siprit of Randallian hangin’ honesty, listening to Albert King very loud thru the headphones, woooooo, hahaha, i dare you, underneath that powder and paint, pretty woman, what's the matter with you, i already apologised, twice i think, (Three Card, slicks his hand into his pocket, Mamu flinches almost into a grin, i keep [...]
Cash money, not equity, is what powers the entertainment industry. Especially when it comes to talent. In a possibly apocryphal but illustrative anecdote, legendary bluesman Albert King reportedly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cash money, not equity, is what powers the entertainment industry. Especially when it comes to talent. In a possibly apocryphal but illustrative anecdote, legendary bluesman Albert King reportedly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Who knew that mid ’60’s Dutch rockers could be so funky? With Albert King, Lee Dorsey, Solomon Burke and Allen Touissant (among others) all claiming highly respectable versions of this song, this one might be my favorite. The wicked drum break at the beginning, the saxophone sqounk, the dirty swagger where there once was a [...]
Before he did it last week in Philadelphia, no one could have imagined that Barack Obama would sing the blues so powerfully. With the same soul power that bluesman Albert King once described, Obama brought the grits. He revealed an inner music of spirituality, of confrontation, a statement of aching tragic depth and resilient affirmation.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle By John Torenli Former Fort Hamilton High School star and New Jersey Nets forward Albert King (right) took the time to read and talk to children of the Crown Heights Youth Collective at the Emma J. Johnston School (P.S. 241) last weekend as part of Forest City Ratner Companies’ and State Senator Eric Adams’ “Read to Achieve” program. “Reading is the most fundamental tool that...
A longtime staple of New Orleans' famed Bourbon Street club circuit, blues guitarist Bryan Lee was born in Wisconsin in 1945; inspired by B.B. King, Albert King and others, his Midwest upbringing also resulted in a distinctively Chicago-styled sound which his long stay in the South did little to erase. Billed variously as "The Braille Blues Daddy" and "The Blind Blues Daddy," Lee first surfaced in...
