CD 1 "SINGIN' THE BLUES" (1957) 1. Please Love Me (King/Ling) 2:52 2. You Upset Me Baby (King/Taub) 3:04 3. Everyday I Have the Blues (Chatman) 2:50 4. Bad Luck (Hunter) 2:55 5. Three O'Clock Blues (King/Taub) 3:01 6. Blind Love (King/Taub) 3:06 7. Woke Up This Morning (King/Taub) 2:58 8. You Know I Love You (King/Taub) 3:06 9. Sweet Little Angel (King/Taub) 3:1310. Ten Long Years (King/Taub) 2:4911. Did You Ever Love a Woman (Moore) 2:3512. Crying Won't Help You (Whittaker) 3:00 BONUS TRACKS13. Miss Martha King (King) 1949 2:4314. When Your Baby Packs Up And Goes (King) 1949 2:2915. Got the Blues (King) 1949 2:4616. Take a Swing with Me (King) 1949 2:3317. B. B. Boogie (King/Taub) 1950 3:1218. Mistreated Woman (King/King/Taub) 1950 2:4619. The Other Night Blues (Bihari/King/King) 1950 3:3720. My Baby's Gone (King/King/Taub) 1950 2:00Total Time 57:36 CD 2 "THE BLUES" (1958) 1. Why Do Everything Happen to Me (Hawkins/Taub) 2:47 2. Ruby Lee (King/Taub) 3:02 3. When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer (Williamson) 2:56 4. Past Day (Don't Have to Cry) (King/Josea) 3:16 5. Boogie Woogie Woman (King/Taub) 2:49 6. Early In the Morning (King/Josea) 2:36 7. I Want to Get Married (King/Josea) 3:04 8. That Ain't the Way to Do It (King/Taub) 2:18 9. Troubles, Troubles, Troubles (King/Ling) 2:5510. Don't You Want a Man like Me (Taub) 2:2011. You Know I Go For You (King/Taub) 2:3912. What Can I Do (King/Taub) 2:49 BONUS TRACKS13. She's A Mean Woman (King/King/Taub) 1951 2:3214. B. B. Blues (King/Taub) 1951 2:2715. She's Dynamite (Whittaker) 1951 2:3016. Shake It Up and Go (King/King/Taub) 1952 2:3517. Someday, Somewhere (King/Taub) 1952 2:5218. You Didn't Want Me (King/Taub) 1952 2:3519. Fine Looking Woman (King) 1952 2:23Total Time 51:42 CD 3 "B. B. KING WAILS" (1958) 1. Sweet Thing (King/Josea) 2:55 2. I've Got Papers on You Baby (King/Taub) 2:22 3. Tomorrow Is another Day (King/Ling) 2:56 4. Come by Here (King/Taub) 2:17 5. The Fool (Davis/Taub) 2:41 6. I Love You So (King/Ling) 2:53 7. The Woman I Love (Clayton) 3:01 8. We Can't Make It (King/Josea) 2:39 9. Treat Me Right (King/Ling) 2:2110. Time to Say Goodbye (King/Ling) 2:08 BONUS TRACKS11. Story from My Heart and Soul (King/Taub) 1952 # 9 2:5812. She Don't Move Me No More (King) 1952 3:0613. My Own Fault, Darling (King) 1952 3:3514. Gotta Find My Baby (Clayton) 1952 2:2515. Highway Bound (King) 1953 2:4716. Please Hurry Home (King/Taub) 1953 # 4 2:4317. Neighbourhood Affair (Bihari/King) 1953 2:5718. Why Did You Leave Me (King/Taub) 1953 3:0719. The Woman I Love (Clayton) 1954 # 31 2.4220. Whole Lotta Love (Davis/Josea) 1954 # 8 3:10Total Time 55:53 CD 4 "B. B. KING SINGS SPIRITUALS" (1959) 1. Precious Lord (Dorsey) 3:24 2. Save a Seat for Me (Brownlee) 3:05 3. Ole Time Religion (Traditional) 2:27 4. Sweet Chariot (Traditional) 2:09 5. Servant's Prayer (Dorsey) 3:03 6. Jesus Gave Me Water (Campbell) 3:03 7. I Never Heard a Man (Woodard) 2:37 8. Army of the Lord (Traditional) 3:07 9. I Am Willing to Run All the Way (Traditional) 3:3910. I'm Working On the Building (Bowles/Hoyle) 2:49 BONUS TRACKS11. Love You Baby (King/Taub) 1954 2:2512. Sneakin' around (Robinson) 1954 # 14 3:0313. Bye Bye Baby (King/Taub) 1954 2:3214. Praying to the Lord (King/Taub) 1954 2:5015. Everything I Do Is Wrong (King) 1954 2:2616. Please Help Me (King/Taub) 1954 3:1817. Don't You Want a Man like Me (Taub) 1954 2:4118. I'm in Love (Taub/Ling) 1955 2:18Total Time 50:58 CD 5 "B. B. KING SINGS COMPOSITIONS OF DUKE ELLINTON & OTHERS" (1960) 1. Cottontail (Ellington/Strayhorn) 3:08 2. Solitude (Ellington/DeLange/Mills) 3:17 3. Jack the Bear (Ellington) 3:29 4. Sophisticated Lady (Ellington/Mills/Parish) 3:37 5. Jeeps Blues (Ellington/Hodges) 4:38 6. Take the "A" Train (Strayhorn) 3:03 7. Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Ellington/Russell) 3:15 8. Main Stem (Ellington) 2:58 9. Mood Indigo (Bigard/Ellington/Mills) 3:5710. Eastside Westside (Ellington/Barnet) 3:07 Title 1-10: B. B. KING & THE DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA BONUS TRACKS11. Jump with You Baby (King/Taub) 1955 2:1412. Lonely and Blue (Costa/Erby) 1955 2:5813. Sixteen Tons (Travis) 1955 2:3414. Talkin' the Blues (King) 1955 2:2215. I'm Cracking Up Over You (King/Taub) 1956 2:5216. Bim Bam (Davis/Josea) 1956 2:3517. On My Word of Honor (Miles/Harrison) 1956 # 3 2:5518. Can't We Talk It over (Davis) 1956 3:23Total Time 56:24 CD 6 "KING OF THE BLUES" (1960) 1. I've Got a Right to Love My Baby (King/Ling) 3:14 2. What Way to Go (King/Josea) 3:08 3. Long Nights (King/Taub) 3:32 4. Feel like A Million (King/Taub) 3:32 5. I'll Survive (King/Ling) 2:41 6. Good Man Gone Bad (King/Taub/Washington) 2:46 7. If I Lost You (King/Taub) 2:41 8. You're on the Top (King/Ling) 2:50 9. Partin' Time (King/Josea) 3:0110. I'm King (King/Taub) 2:21 BONUS TRACKS11. The Key to My Kingdom (Baum/Davis/Josea) 1957 2:3312. Be Careful With a Fool (King/Josea) 1957 2:5213. You Don't Know (King/Josea) 1957 2:2514. I Wonder (King/Taub) 1957 2:4915. I Need You So Bad (King/Taub) 1957 2:5616. Days Of Old (King/Taub) 1958 2:2917. Please Accept My Love (Garlow) 1958 # 9 2:3418. Don't Look Now, But I've Got the Blues (Hazlewood) 1958 2:43Total Time 51:11 CD 7 "MY KIND OF BLUES" (1960) 1. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now (King/Josea) 5:15 2. Mr. Pawn Broker (King/Taub) 3:14 3. Understand (Gant) 2:40 4. Someday Baby (Estes/Nixon) 2:52 5. Driving Wheel (Sykes) 2:50 6. Walking Doctor Bill (Clayton) 3:41 7. My Own Fault, Baby (Waters) 3:33 8. Catfish Blues (Petway) 2:31 9. Hold That Train (Clayton) 3:5810. Please Set the Date (McCoy) 2:49 BONUS TRACKS11. Boogie Rock (King) 1955 3:06?12. I Am (Shuman/Edwards) 1959 2:1913. Worry, Worry, Worry (Taub/Davis) 1959 2:4214. Hard Working Woman (King/Taub) 1955 2:3615. Walkin' and Cryin' (King/Ling) 1954 2:5316. Dark Is the Night Part I (Taub/Davis/King) 1956 2:4017. Dark Is the Night Part II (Taub/Davis/King) 1956 2:44Total Time 52:25 CD 8 "MORE B. B. KING" (1961) 1. Bad Case of Love (Irving/Josea) 2:20 2. Get Out of Here (King) 2:42 3. Bad Luck Soul (Jefferson) 2:19 4. Shut Your Mouth (King/Taub) 2:42 5. Baby Look at You (King/Josea) 3:09 6. You're Breaking My Heart (King/Josea) 4:14 7. My Reward (King/Ling) 2:17 8. Don't Cry Anymore (King/Taub) 2:20 9. Blues for Me (King) 2:1910. (Ain't That) Just Like a Woman (Demetrius/Moore) 3:17 BONUS TRACKS11. Things Are Not the Same (King/Josea) 1960 3:0812. Sugar Mama (Hooker) 1959 2:4413. A Lonely Lover's Plea (King/Taub/Ling) 1959 2:4714. Yes Indeed (Oliver) 1960 & Count Basie Orchestra 3:2315. Bad Luck Blues (Jefferson) 1960 2:1816. It's My Own Fault (Hooker) 1960 3:3417. Please Love Me (King/King/Taub) 1960 2:5118. Everyday I Have the Blues (Chatman) 1959 5:08Total Time 53:45 CD 9 "EASY LISTENING BLUES" (1962) 1. Easy Listening Blues (King) 2:35 2. Blues for Me (King) 2:53 3. Night Long (King) 2:59 4. Confessin' the Blues (Brown McShann) 2:39 5. Don't Touch (King) 2:42 6. Slow Walk (King) 3:15 7. Walkin' (King) 2:45 8. Hully Gully (King) 2:58 9. Shoutin' the Blues (King/Taub) 2:4110. Rambler (King) 2:29 BONUS TRACKS11. Sweet Sixteen Part I (Ertegun) 1960 # 2 3:0312. Sweet Sixteen Part II (Ertegun) 1960 # 2 3:1813. I Was Blind (King/Ling/Taub) 1960 3:0714. You've Been an Angel (King/Taub) 1958 # 16 2:4015. Let's Do the Boogie (Taub/King) 1956 2:2616. I'm Gonna Quit My Baby (King/Ling) 1957 2:3317. Some Day Somewhere (King/Taub) 1960 2:5418. Mean Old Frisco (Crudup) 1959 2:32Total Time 50:54 CD 10 "TWIST WITH B. B. KING" (1962) 1. You Upset Me Baby (King/Taub) 3:02 2. Woke Up This Morning (King/Taub/KIng) 2:59 3. Please Love Me (King) 2:49 4. Bad Case of Love (Irving/Josea) 2:19 5. Groovin' Twist (King) 2:15 6. Bad Luck Soul (Jefferson) 2:16 7. Do What I Say (King) 2:20 8. Rockin' Twist (Dylan/King/Ling) 3:12 9. Come by Here (King/Taub) 2:1610. Oh Baby (King) 2:21 BONUS TRACKS11. Days Of Old (Bihari/King) 1958 2:2512. You've Been an Angel (Taub/King) 1958 # 16 2:4013. Someday Somewhere (Taub/King) 1961 # 16 2:5214. Peace of Mind (King) 1961 # 7 2:1515. My Sometime Baby (King/Bihari) 1962 # 24 3:0416. Gonna Miss You around Here (Josea/King) 1962 # 17 2:53Total Time 42:28Total 523:16

Im Alter von 89 Jahren ist B. B. King im Frühjahr2015 gestorben - ein Gitarrist und Sänger, für den dieBezeichnung Musiklegende keine Übertreibung ist.Zehn seiner Originalalben sind in dieser Box enthaltenergänzt durch interessante Bonus-Tracks für alleBlues-Liebhaber. B. B. steht für sein Pseudonym"Beale Street Blues Boy", seinen Gitarren gab er denNamen Lucille und als unschlagbares Duo verkauftenbeide Millionen von Platten und kassierten allenennenswerten Auszeichnungen in der Musikbranche.Ohne die Musik hätte er sein Leben wohl alschancenloser Landarbeiter verbracht. SeinenLebensunterhalt verdiente er sich als Traktorfahrer aufden Baumwollplantagen weißer Farmer und spartesich in den 1940er Jahren das Geld für sein erstesInstrument zusammen. Seinen großen Durchbruchhatte er mit dem Song "The Thrill Is Gone"; wie kaumein anderer hat King Generationen von Rockmusikernbeeinflusst, von Jimi Hendrix über Eric Clapton bis zuStevie Ray Vaughan und den Rolling Stones.Die insgesamt 70 Singles und 25 Alben, die er fürdie Gebrüder Bihari auf deren Labels RPM, Crownund Kent einspielte, wurden ausschließlich inden schwarzen Stadtvierteln der amerikanischenGroßstädte verkauft. Zwischen den Jahren 1951und 1992 war er mit 75 Titeln in den amerikanischenR&B-Charts vertreten. Zur Freude vieler Fans gibt esin dieser Box auch die gesuchte Crown-LP aus demJahr 1960, die King mit dem Orchester des legendärenJazz-Pianisten Duke Ellington einspielte, sowie dieseltene LP "Twist with B. B. King" aus dem Jahr 1962.