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Track Listings
| 1. Riding With The King |
| 2. Ten Long Years |
| 3. Key To The Highway |
| 4. Marry You |
| 5. Three O'Clock Blues |
| 6. Help The Poor |
| 7. I Wanna Be |
| 8. Worried Life Blues |
| 9. Days Of Old |
| 10. When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer |
| 11. Hold On I'm Coming |
| 12. Come Rain Or Come Shine |
Product Description
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Eric Clapton and B.B. King first recorded together for one track on King's 1997 album Deuces Wild, an experience so satisfying that they decided they'd better do it again. Before long, Clapton announced on US television that one of his remaining ambitions was to make an entire album with King. Roping in producer Simon Climie, who had been such an integral part of Clapton's hugely successful Pilgrim album, the pair hunkered down in Los Angeles and set to work rejuvenating and re-interpreting a bunch of King's classics including "Ten Long Years", "Three O'Clock Blues", "Help The Poor" and "Days Of Old". They also take on a bunch of other goodies including a slow, bluesey reading of Sam & Dave's "Hold On I'm Coming" and, appropriately enough, a witty take on John Hiatt's "Riding With The King". They reach back to 1946 for the Johnny Mercer/Harold Arlen standard "Come Rain Or Come Shine", and even dip into the 1930s to resurrect Big Bill Broonzy's "Keys To The Highway", where their trading of tasty acoustic licks is a particular joy. Throughout Riding With The King, Climie has kept the production admirably simple, with King's voice and guitar in one stereo channel while Clapton's is in the other, helping create a vital intimacy, as if they're playing across a small room to each other. --Johnny Black
Chronique amazon.fr
B.B. King et Eric Clapton sont en voiture, et c'est Clapton qui conduit. Mais c'est juste pour la photo. Car la rencontre du Dieu et du Roi a toutes les allures d'une rencontre au sommet. De l'Olympe, forcément. Et cette rencontre entre les deux plus grands guitaristes de blues du monde a tout d'une soirée en ville entre deux copains. Les deux hommes se connaissent depuis trop longtemps, et savent trop ce qu'ils se doivent l'un à l'autre pour (se) raconter des histoires. L'un (Clapton, dit "God") sent qu'il ne serait rien sans l'autre (B.B. King), tandis que le second a toujours su qu'il pouvait compter sur la gratitude éternelle du jeune premier. Et les deux musiciens de se livrer à une grande fête de la guitare, autour d'un répertoire où ils vont se partager vocaux et parties instrumentales. Au programme, des chansons où B.B. comme Clapton peuvent se reconnaître - des titres signés des anciens, Big Bill Broonzy par exemple, mais aussi John Hiatt ou Isaac Hayes - et puis celles que B.B. a écrites ("Ten Long Years", "Three O'Clock Blues", plus de 8 minutes de bonheur total). Et de ce duel des plus amicaux, c'est le blues qui sort gagnant, et la tête haute. --José Ruiz
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Clapton doesn't understand the blues,
This review is from: Riding With the King (Audio CD)
Clapton's "whitewashed" version od the blues just pales in compariosn with BB's soulful meaningful and powerful blues. If we could only edit out all of Clapton's parts thsi would be a great date. Too bad they didn't match BB with John Lee Hooker instead, he was still around back then. Oh well...
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Best blues album ever? Soulful? Their best efforts? What!!??,
By DIXON (DEPRESSION CITY after reading these positive reviews) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Riding With the King (Audio CD)
I was stunned to read so many positive reviews for this nearly horrible album. I recently had the misfortune to hear this album as I drove to a B.B King concert & me & my companions quickly had to take it out of the cd player & put in King's 'Live at the Regal,' a real, off-the-cuff, live, soulful blues album. My god, I think maybe there has to be a criteria for these reviews like if you don't know squat about blues music then you have no right to exclaim statements like 'This is as real as the blues get!' or 'A blues masterpiece!' concerning this overproduced, lifeless, soulless piece. I am admittedly a blues snob & prefer 1920's to 1950's blues but I am also a very open-minded person. All you first time blues listeners & Clapton fans here really REALLY need an education in blues history & quality. If this is the kind of blues music that is being embraced by the majority of people nowadays I say the battle has been lost. The only blues album worse than this one is possibly B.B King's late 1980's 'King of the Blues' disaster. Let me dumb it down for some of you: Saying 'Riding with the King' is a great, hell, even a 'Good' blues album is like saying Vanilla Ice really brought the rap artform to a higher level. Be patient! Give those old recordings by Charley Patton & Howlin' Wolf & Muddy Waters & Bessie Smith the effort in understanding they deserve. To me, the overproduced, layered, heartless sound of 'Riding with the King,' & some of your (fellow reviewers) ecstatic comments on it leaves a big old hole in my gut. If you only KNEW how good blues can get you'd all probably die realizing.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Riding with the King,
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This review is from: Riding With the King (Audio CD)
I'm pushing 50 and my 2 teenagers, both of whom are aspiring blues guitarists love this album as much as I do.
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