Live Wire/Blues Power
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| Live Wire / Blues Power | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | November 1968 | |||
| Recorded | 1968 | |||
| Venue | Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 38:16 | |||
| Label | Stax[1] | |||
| Producer | Al Jackson Jr. | |||
| Albert King chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [3] |
| Mojo | [4] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [5] |
| The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings | [6] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [7] |
Live Wire/Blues Power is a blues album by Albert King.[8] It was recorded live in 1968 at the Fillmore Auditorium.[9] Leftovers from the recordings were released on the albums Wednesday Night in San Francisco and Thursday Night in San Francisco.[10]
The album peaked at No. 150 on the Billboard 200.[11]
The album was produced by Al Jackson Jr.[5]
Critical reception
Rolling Stone called the album "one man’s reworking of a classic format to make an intensely personal statement, invoking all the cliches without becoming for one second a cliche itself."[12] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music deemed it a "classic [that] introduced [King's] music to the white rock audience."[3]
Track listing
- "Watermelon Man" (Herbie Hancock) – 4:04
- "Blues Power" (Albert King) – 10:18
- "Night Stomp" (Raymond Jackson, King) – 5:49
- "Blues at Sunrise" (King) – 8:44
- "Please Love Me" (B.B. King, Jules Taub) – 4:01
- "Look Out" (King) – 5:20[2]
