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ALBUM: Let The Good Times Roll Lyrics
By:
B.B. King
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Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Ain't That Just Like A Woman
Beware, Brother, Beware
Buzz Me
Caldonia
Choo Choo Ch'boogie
Early In The Morning
I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't (my Baby)
It's A Great, Great Pleasure
Jack, You're Dead!
Knock Me A Kiss
Let The Good Times Roll
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
Rusty Dusty Blues (mama Mama Blues)
Saturday Night Fish Fry
Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door
Sure Had A Wonderful Time Last Night
Let The Good Times Roll Reviews
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A great album. BB King does a great job covering 18 sides by one of his top influences. A fitting tribute to Louis Jordan, BB keeps the feel and soul of the original while adding his own touch on vocals and guitar as only BB can do. If you are not familiar with either artist, this will have you buying not only more BB, but also investigating the older, yet still hip, Louis Jordan. A founding father of rock and pop music, Jordan did the first rap record which I am familiar with but he did it in the 40's! Check out "Saturday Night Fish Fry" and see what I mean. A great album and a joy to listen to. There are even a few mistakes included in the versions here. Perfection took a backseat to feel. Wish more musicians would learn from the example.
Fitting Tribute to Louis Jordan
I listened to Louis Jordan performing many of these same songs just the other day and couldn't wait to hear how BB's new album would compare. Rest assured that BB has captured the spirit and the heart and soul of Jordan's music. This phenomenal album presents 18 of the master's work with love and affection from an artist who has every right to phone it in at this point in his career. But he's not called the King of the Blues for nothing - these songs are delivered with the utmost care and respect that is obvious from the first few bars. In his autobiography, BB King cites Jordan and T-Bone Walker (along with Blind Lemon Jefferson) as his strongest influences, and he has produced a fitting tribute to an artist well ahead of his time. The band he has assembled for this album reads like an R&B Hall of Fame roster - Fathead Newman and Hank Crawford, Dr. John, and Marcus Belgrave. Though King has recently tossed in a few of Jordan's songs in his concerts and albums, it is a rare and unexpected treat to listen to a whole album dedicated to him. I saw BB in concert in September at his blues festival and can testify to the fact that he is just as good as ever. He seemed to be having more fun than he has ever had, too. This album proves it.
Blues Sunnyside Up!
Quite simply, this is my favorite B.B. King album. Rollicking songs, great recorded sound, an outstanding rhythm section backing up B.B.'s fine vocals (now with a touch of gravel in them). I was toe-tapping from beginning to end. Who says you can't have your blues sunnyside up?
Get the real thing
BB is a great blues performer, but his jump blues doesn't jump. Buy some actual Louis Jordan recordings, and really go for it!
Just great!
I first heard this recording in London, at a small restaurant that was playing a series of great CDs. I asked the manager to give me the name, and when I returned home I picked up the recording. Since then I've probably listened to it 20 or 30 times. It is simply a great recording--funny, lively, high-spirited. My entire family loves it and we play it in the car all the time. Our favorite is "There ain't nobody here but us chickens," which never fails to get us all in a good mood. If you love B.B. King or Louis Jordan, get this CD.
Albums consisting entirely of one artist paying tribute to another are commonplace, especially in the blues world where a particular artist's musical heritage is easy to trace. It's rare, though, for an artist of B.B. King's caliber to do such a tribute, and we're all lucky that the artist he chose to honor is Louis Jordan--the King of the Blues saluting the King of Swing. King's clean, expressive guitar style and rough-hewn voice are so distinctive that there's no mistaking them for anyone else's, and hearing them applied to Jordan's classic songs--including "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens," "Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door," "Saturday Night Fish Fry," and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"--demonstrates both King's considerable skill and the great versatility of Jordan's songwriting. That makes this record more than a mere curiosity, as does the stellar piano work from another living legend, Dr. John. --
Genevieve Williams
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