How Blue Can You Get? Classic Live Performances 1964 to 1994 (1996)

About this title: The double-disc collection How Blue Can You Get: Classic Live 1964-94 covers 30 years of B.B. King's remarkably popular and groundbreaking career, picking out choice live performances from a variety of sources. King has always been acknowledged as one of the most electrifing blues guitarists, as well as one of the best all-around entertainers that the genre has to offer, so it stands to reason that the compilation is filled with terrific music. And it certainly is -- from his astonishing performance at the Regal to recent performances in Japan, B.B. shines throughout the set. Despite all of ... read more

Tracks:

1. Every Day I Have the Blues [Memphis Slim]
2. Sweet Little Angel [King/Taub]
3. Please Love Me [King/Taub]
4. You Upset Me Baby [King/Taub]
5. Gambler's Blues [King/Pate]
6. Buzz Me [Baxter/Moore]
7. Baby Get Lost [Feather]
8. Blind Love [King/Taub]
9. Don't Answer the Door [Johnson]
10. Please Accept My Love [King/Ling]
11. Worry, Worry [Davis/Taub]
12. How Blue Can You Get? [Feather]
13. Eyesight to the Blind [Williamson]
14. Chains and Things [Clark/King]
15. Sweet Sixteen [Josea/King]
16. The Thrill Is Gone [Darnell/Hawkins]
17. Let the Good Times Roll [Moore/Theard]
18. I Got Some Help I Don't Need [Clark/King]
19. Caldonia [Moore]
20. Night Life [Breeland/Buskirk/Ne]
21. Never Make a Move Too Soon [Hooper/Jennings]
22. All over Again [I've Got a Mind to Give Up Living] [King/Adams]
23. Please Send Me Someone to Love [Mayfield]
24. Nobody Loves Me But My Mother [King]
25. When Love Comes to Town [Bono/U Two]
26. Paying the Cost to Be the Boss [King]
27. Ain't Nobody's Business [Grainger/Robbins]
28. T-Bone Shuffle [Walker]
29. Rock Me Baby [Josea/King]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.