![]() ![]() The track listing on the album could almost be a classic BB King set list: songs such as You Upset Me, Baby, Every Day I Have The Blues and 3 O’Clock Blues all smoulder and spark, setting the stage for what was to come. Previously, he had taken to the stage wearing whatever came to hand, which often meant Bermuda shorts or an old army shirt! The cover shows BB decked out with a plaid black and white dinner jacket, a white-on-white shirt and bow tie, setting a dress code that was to become something of a trademark in later years. The whole album represents something of a manifesto for what was to come. But by the mid-1950s the public’s thirst for recorded music had expanded into the up and coming teenage market, something that had exploded with the birth of rock ’n’ roll around that time.īy the time of Singin’ The Blues’ release, BB was already an established radio personality, as well as a seasoned live performer. The whole concept of the ‘album’ was comparatively new - until then what we now call singles were the chosen medium for popular music releases. They say that the first cut is the deepest, and that certainly proved true for BB King’s inaugural LP, although his career as a recording artist actually began seven years previously with the single Miss Martha King, one of four tracks recorded in Studio A at the WDIA Radio Station in Memphis, Tennessee in 1949. ![]()
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