Live Wire/Blues Power

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Live Wire / Blues Power
File:Livewirebluespower.jpg
Live album by
Albert King
ReleasedNovember 1968
Recorded1968
VenueFillmore Auditorium, San Francisco
GenreBlues
Length38:16
LabelStax[1]
ProducerAl Jackson Jr.
Albert King chronology
Born Under a Bad Sign
(1967) 		Live Wire / Blues Power
(1968) 		Years Gone By
(1969)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarHalf star[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[3]
MojoStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album GuideStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[5]
The Penguin Guide to Blues RecordingsStarStarHalf starFile:Star empty.svg[6]
The Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[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]

Production

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The album was produced by Al Jackson Jr.[5]

Critical reception

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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

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  1. "Watermelon Man" (Herbie Hancock) – 4:04
  2. "Blues Power" (Albert King) – 10:18
  3. "Night Stomp" (Raymond Jackson, King) – 5:49
  4. "Blues at Sunrise" (King) – 8:44
  5. "Please Love Me" (B.B. King, Jules Taub) – 4:01
  6. "Look Out" (King) – 5:20[2]

Personnel

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Technical
  • Bill Halverson, Ron Capone – engineer
  • Ivan Nagy – cover photograph

Charts

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Chart performance for Live Wire/Blues Power
Chart (2024) Peak
position
Croatian International Albums (HDU)[13] 33

References

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