Artist: B.B. King
Album: Live At The BBC
Genre: Modern Electric Blues
Origin: USA
Released: 2008
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Tracklist:
- Caldonia (Live At The BBC, The Hammersmith Odeon / 1978)
- I Like To Live The Love (Live At The BBC, The Hammersmith Odeon / 1978)
- Night Life (Live At The BBC, The Hammersmith Odeon / 1978)
- When It All Comes Down (I'll Still Be Around) (Live At The BBC, The Hammersmith Odeon / 1978)
- The Thrill Is Gone (Live At The BBC, The Hammersmith Odeon / 1978)
- I Gotta Move Out Of This Neighbourhood (Live At The BBC, Glasgow / 1991)
- When Love Comes To Town (Live At The BBC, Glasgow / 1991)
- Let The Good Times Roll (Live At The BBC, Fairfield Hall / 1998)
- Stormy Monday Blues (Live At The BBC, Fairfield Hall / 1998)
- Ain't Nobody Home (Live At The BBC, Fairfield Hall / 1998)
- Five Long Years (Live At The BBC, Fairfield Hall / 1998)
- How Blue Can You Get? (Live At The BBC, Fairfield Hall / 1998)
- Paying The Cost To Be The Boss (Live At The BBC / 1989)
- The Thrill Is Gone (Live At The BBC / 1989)
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Universal's 2009 set Live at the BBC contains 15 highlights from live B.B. King performances the BBC aired between the years of 1978 and 1991 a span that at first seems pretty impressive for a single-disc set, but a close inspection reveals that this 15-track collection covers just three specific dates, with one of those (a session for Andy Kershaw's Radio 1 program) yielding just two tracks tacked onto the end. The rest is split between a five-track set from the Hammersmith Odeon in 1978 and seven cuts from a 1991 show at Croydon's Fairfield Hall, and while there are a few notable differences between the sets B.B.'s guitar growls in 1978 and he sings U2's "When Love Comes to Town" in 1991 during a performance that is a bit more laid-back the two aren't all that different in form or feel: they still capture B.B. backed by a soul-spiked big band playing songs they play every night, so they know how to deliver them with precision and not a small degree of panache. This means the performances are certainly enjoyable, but they are familiar and not too easy to distinguish from the many latter-day live B.B. King recordings that are on the market which means there may not be much reason to get Live at the BBC if you have one of the other live B.B. sets, but there's nothing unpleasant about this at all.