Live Wire/Blues Power

Live Wire/Blues Power is a blues album by Albert King.[7] It was recorded live in 1968 at the Fillmore Auditorium.[8] Leftovers from the recordings were released on the albums Wednesday Night in San Francisco and Thursday Night in San Francisco.[9]

Live Wire / Blues Power
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
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[4]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]

The album peaked at No. 150 on the Billboard 200.[10]

Production

The album was produced by Al Jackson Jr.[4]

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."[11] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music deemed it a "classic [that] introduced [King's] music to the white rock audience."[3]

Track listing
  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
Technical
  • Bill Halverson, Ron Capone - engineer
  • Ivan Nagy - cover photograph

References
  1. Sutton, Bob (16 Jan 1993). "Albert King reshaped urban blues". Toronto Star. p. G3.
  2. "Live Wire/Blues Power - Albert King | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
  3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 841.
  4. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 630.
  5. Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 348. ISBN 978-0-140-51384-4.
  6. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 394.
  7. "Albert King | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. Folkart, Burt A. (23 Dec 1992). "Albert King: Influential Blues Guitarist". Los Angeles Times. p. 22.
  9. Snowden, Don (7 Apr 1991). "Still Bluesy After All These Years". Los Angeles Times. Calendar. p. 66.
  10. "Albert King". Billboard.
  11. Greenberg, Jerrold (November 23, 1968). "Records". Rolling Stone. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
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