Albert King - Live Wire/Blues Power

The Bluesville Series from Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds!

Inspired by the original Prestige label imprint established in 1959

Live Wire/Blues Power by Albert King

All-analog mastering by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab at Blue Heaven Studios!

180-gram vinyl pressed at Quality Record Pressings

Obi strip with reflections written by Grammy-winning producer, writer, and musician Scott Billington

Highlighting trailblazing blues musicians from legendary labels

"This reissue returns one of the monumental LPs of the 1960s blue revival to its original vinyl format. Albert King's Live Wire / Blues Power, originally released in 1968 on Stax Records, stands alongside B.B. King's Live at the Regal (1965) on ABC Records as the most influential live blues recordings of the era. ... on Live Wire, the focus is on extended, dramatic guitar solos supported by a tight rhythm section. Recorded at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, it was the follow-up to Albert King's groundbreaking soul blues masterpiece Born Under a Bad Sign, recorded the previous year at Stax Studios in Memphis with Booker T. & the MG's. ... the original Live Wire / Blues Power LP remains iconic, and it should be foundational for anyone building a vinyl blues collection." — Robert H. Cataliotti, Living Blues, November 2024

"... this is a blues essential and I'm glad that Bluesville Records chose to reissue it. What else needs to be said is that if you've never heard a clean original this will sound very good, top to bottom ... the bottom end has more weight that sounds as if it's actually on the tape but was attenuated in the original mastering. So the reissue is a mixed sonic bag, but you can be 100% sure that Mr. Lutthans cutting on the restored TML lathe has gotten the most from the tape." — Music = 9/11; Sound = 7/11 — Michael Fremer, TrackingAngle.com. Read the whole review here.

Live Wire/Blues Power is a live album from Albert King recorded in 1968 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California. Featuring originals and King's rendition of classics, the album demonstrates Albert King's blues prowess.

Featuring all-analog mastering by Grammy-nominated engineer Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab at Blue Heaven Studios. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, this album is released in partnership with Acoustic Sounds, and features a paper-wrapped tip-on jacket. According to Rolling Stone, this album is "Just the unadulterated pure and simple blues.

1. Watermelon Man

2. Blues Power

3. Night Stomp

4. Blues At Sunrise

5. Please Love Me

6. Look Out

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