![]() Jones, and bass player Donald "Duck"Dunn, better known as Booker T. Working with producer-drummer Al Jackson, Jr., guitarist Steve Cropper, keyboards ace Booker T. King didn't become a major blues figure until after he signed with Stax Records in 1966. In 1959 he had a minor hit on Bobbin with "I'm a Lonely Man." King's biggest release, "Don't Throw Your Love on Me So Strong," made it to number 14 on the R&B charts in 1961. Louis, where he recorded for the Bobbin and the King labels. Because King received little in the way of financial remuneration for the record, he left Parrot and eventually moved to St. That year King cut "Bad Luck Blues" and "Be On Your Merry Way" for Parrot. In 1953, King convinced Parrot label owner Al Benson to record him as a blues singer and guitarist. For a while, King played drums behind bluesman Jimmy Reed. He worked around Osceola, Arkansas, with a group called the In the Groove Boys before migrating north and ending up in Gary, Indiana, in the early 1950s. ![]() Inspired by Blind Lemon Jefferson, King quit singing in a family gospel group and took up the blues. King was born in Indianola, Mississippi and taught himself how to play on a homemade guitar. King (no relation, though at times Albert suggested otherwise) and Muddy Waters, King helped nurture a white interest in blues when the music needed it most to survive. ![]() King was also the first major blues guitarist to cross over into modem soul his mid- and late 1960s recordings for the Stax label, cut with the same great session musicians who played on the recordings of Otis Redding, Sam & Dave,Eddie Floyd, and others, appealed to his established black audience while broadening his appeal with rock fans. He was a master of the single-string solo and could bend strings to produce a particularly tormented blues sound that set his style apart from his contemporaries. By playing left- handed and holding his guitar upside-down (with the strings set for a right-handed player), and by concentrating on tone and intensity more than flash, King fashioned over his long career, a sound that was both distinctive and highly influential. Bluesman Albert King was one of the premier electric guitar stylists of the post-World War II period. ![]()
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