Albert King

Otis Rush may come out on top on this record but that's only because he was Satan incarnate when it came to playing Chicago Blues. King's songs here are good -- they're also overshadowed a bit by Rush's emergence from the famous Cobra recordings as some kind of demon. A must for Electric Blues fans.

Chess Records has been an erratic, convoluted giant in the blues world: fantastic product
till the Sixties, then a period of decline and even bad taste during the middle and late
Sixties, then suddenly, in the last year, new hope. The causes for this recent rejoicing are,
on the one hand, Muddy Waters' great new double-record set, Fathers and Sons, and on
the other, the very promising Vintage Series of blues long salted away in the Che... More >