Jimmy KING - Live At Monterey 2002

Jimmy KING - Live At Monterey 2002

Blues

Jimmy King was born Manuel Gales 34 years ago in Memphis. He changed his name as a tribute to guitarists Jimi Hendrix and Albert King. Albert King dubbed him his musical Godson and 'Little' Jimmy played in Albert's traveling revue before the latter's death in 1992. Jimmy King has all of Albert's fat, fiery tone and his incendiary live performances are already legendary. This disc captures one such show from beginning to end, in real time, while adding four studio tracks, complete with the Memphis Horns, as a bonus.

Although he's too young to have lived through it, King's playing conjures up the sounds of Memphis in its greasy heyday, when Stax and Hi records reigned supreme and Beale Street stood in decay. He offers funky covers of legendary Hi producer Willie Mitchell's 'Living In The Danger Zone' and 'It Ain't The Same No Mo', as well as a number of tunes associated with his honorary Godfather Albert King on what is one of the best live blues recordings in some time.
By Al Kirkcaldy.
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Memphis's Jimmy King had to drop the "little" he used to carry before his name, because this scalding 1999 concert fired by his eloquent guitar and soul-dipped voice--proves he's become a big talent. Live tracks are supplemented by four high-energy studio cuts from 1994 with the Memphis Horns cranking up the greasy-funk factor. But the real excitement here is in the live tunes, especially a stone-chiseled "Drowning on Dry Land," on which Jimmy chokes and bends the fat, soaring notes of his Gibson Flying V in raw homage to his late mentor, Albert King. Jimmy's even learned to sing a little like Albert, taking his time and finishing every slow phrase with the same kind of hang-in-the-air vibrato he applies to his bold six-stringing. Instrumental opener "The Ghetto" benefits from Jimmy's heavy wah-wah attack, and young King keeps his guitar tone loud and roaring even when he's handling dance-beat workouts from the pen of his hometown hero, Willie Mitchell. King smoothes things out a bit for the prickly solo in "It Ain't the Same No Mo" that ends the concert with a flourish, wedding Santana's Latin inflections with Stevie Ray Vaughan's arching tone. But for the most part, it's plain that King likes to play rough.
By Ted Drozdowski. AMG.
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Jimmy King- (Vocals, Guitar)
Michael Taylor- (Guitar)
Archie Turner- (Organ)
Victor Butler, Melvin Lee- (Bass)
Roy Cunningham- (Drums)
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01. Introduction: The Ghetto   3.06        
02. Somebody    4.22
03. Don't Burn Down the Bridges   2.55
04. Living in the Danger Zone   4.40
05. Drowning on Dry Land   11.28
06. Standing in the Rain   6.04
07. It Ain't the Same No Mo   4.53
08. I Wonder Why    3.27
09. Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven   6.39
10. Wrapped up in Love Again   4.20
11. Floodin' in California    3.39
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