Thats fucking amazing !! Thanks for sharing that with us it must have been an awesome experience you will never forget ! Long live the Blues and Albert King ❤
We were friends for a lot of years.Albert was like a beloved Uncle to me. One cold wintery night outside of Nightstage in Cambridge Mass.I crawled under the bus.To help Albert who was working on it. Slim, he said hey man you got a power lantern...And laughed.As I held the huge light.Yea boss I heard you called for illumination....!!!! That's nice Albert growled as the wind whipped at us.We buttoned up the problem.And Cleaned up our hands with mechanics waterless soap.And went into the club....All night we talked and laughed.And had a taste of 2 together. Albert was always the same.Very very kind to me. And a wonderful friend. His advice was always good. He was just like family to me. I miss him, deeply.I was blessed to call him friend. He was one of a kind.....!!!
Amazing story Steve, Albert is such an incredible guy im to young to have ever of met him but your story made me feel like I knew him aswell thank you for sharing
I loved him so much. His music dominated my life in the late sixties and seventies. I saw him at clubs in Toronto and he was such a big, warm presence and such a clean, playing guitarist and master of bending notes--what style and soul. So glad you had him as a friend ans have stories to tell. What a guitar player!!
No exaggeration, he must have the most recognisable sound of any guitarist EVER. I'm a player myself, who love classical, blues, jazz and rock guitar...I never fail to hear that it's Albert playing.
He really mean it..when he says,"..those of you who wish to have someone to love..(pauses..)like me..I'm alone.."good God..the expression on his face..this man really knows what the blues is all about..
No matter what style of music you want to play every guitar player should start by studing this Man. This song alone will teach you everything you need to know about playing guitar. 1. Tone 2. Patience (Less can be more) 3. Bending& Vibrato (Make it talk) 4. Playing with feel and feeling 5. Building emotion into your song bring the volume down and hammer it at just the right time and then back down again bring your audience into the song. 6lead the Band. streets smarts compared to book smarts.
without the blues there would be no good music. no stones,no clapton, and not many others who have based their music as their own, their muse. this this blues is sweet love,and has saved many a poor soul.
His guitar licks are one of a kind..I love plenty of other blues guitar artists but Albert King's upside down strings, left handed lucy, is like a burning hot knife(the licks) through soft butter(my musical/emotional receptors of my brain)....just rips me a new one..like it was said, if you can't feel this you gotta hole in your soul...It usually takes quite a bit to make me "feel" let alone cry but this song, especially this version him being getting old,makes me wail like a baby. RIP true King
Albert's vocal line at 1:48 ("there is nothing I can do") is where the famous lead guitar riff in "Layla" came from. Eric Clapton said in an interview that Duane Allman based the Layla riff on this vocal line, but twice as fast.
R.I.P. Velvet Bulldozer. Albert King inspired so many artists including Stevie Ray Vaughan. For that alone, he deserves to go down in Blues history as a true legend.
I remember when I was teenager in the late 90s/ early 2000s, I discovered Albert King. I had idolized SRV since I was like 5 years old. Then I heard Albert King. It instantly clicked in my brain. This was SRV's source and wellspring of inspiration. It was like I had unlocked some kind of ancient knowledge. Nobody that I knew at school liked blues music, like I did. I was on an island and I thought I was the only person on Earth that was aware of this magical secret, because when I would try to talk to other kids about it they didn't care, lol. Still to this day I play Albert King records and learn his licks. He was a Jedi Master of the blues and SRV was his student from a far.
Peppermint Harris wrote it-{"It is also credited to have been written by 'Deadric Malone' (a pseudonym of Don Robey), owner of Duke, which was a customary practice for some producers and label owners at that time".}Fenton Robinson recorded it in 1959-Fenton wrote Somebody Loan Me a Dime.
If you don't dig the blues you got a hole in your soul. I'll be forever grateful that I got to see Albert twice, once in Little Rock at a small club and once at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas. He played on the back of a flatbed trailer and I've never seen anyone before or since who could seduce a crowd like The Velvet Bulldozer. R.I.P.
That's asking for trouble. To love like that especially a woman is very dangerous. Itll destroy your life. Itll break your heart with no hope. It's better to have a woman love you like that and give your love to a guitar like Albert's Lucy.
+Marianne Rasmussen That not true. He just didn't play it as often as most people. Take overall junction for example. Also when he outlines the key of the song, he plays the lower octaves of the key, so he uses the 6th.
Albert King is a Blues Legend! I love this clip with interview. It shows Albert's love of his trusty guitar. His vocals are smooth and his guitar justs cuts deep into ya! Blues music at it's finest!!!
lightninboy1979 Albert was notorius for calling out the band and especially the sound man and I knew people who knew him and the word was that Albert was an ass kicker on and off the stage but at the same time a very sweet man, he just didn't play
What a soul, thank you god for this soul. Thank him for everything he went through he will never know how much he meant to so many. God bless him and keep him close, see you on the other side.
He truly gave himself completely, heart mind and soul for his audience and his music! Albert king was truly unique and the tone of that v guitar was incredible and he played it clean, no effects, nothing but his amazing voice and thoses huge paws on thoses strings. Ripeace Albert king.
he came back home here in Memphis and took a long break...... He was packed and ready to go back to work. He was tending his nice vegetable garden at his place......and his heart ❤️ gave out. Rest In Sublime Peace King Albert!
Because you understand true art and culture baby many people dont understand this at your level to understand life the blues is 400 years of pain that are hidden in those notes many can copy the blues but albert is the blues to listen to this says alot about you stay involved
Mr. King could give you something special in his tone but then again youd have to come back to feel it again. The man had the Blue's past the soul and more! Thanks Mr. King!
The thing that kills me is there isn't enough Albert King Video's and there is so many tune you never get to see live. I love Born under a Bad sign but it isn't his best. I would love to see an entire King concert in all its glory and from the 60's at his prime.
When Albert said he was tired pretty sure it was the understatement of the century. Once an act like his becomes popular ( hot) like his did, and others like it, all over the world, and US concert & venue promoters will practically fist fight to book it for their show which can run a guy ragged in only a couple of years! Touring is every Artists decision but the $ is so alluring to them it's difficult to turn it down.He probably had to beg borrow and steal ( demand ) his any chosen time off. If they could they have booked him 365 days a year until he died because the health of the human beings that are required to make a show are not their top priority. And from what I was told he huge in stature, could have a mean disposition when he wanted to but %99 of the time he WAS the nicest guy any one could ever meet. RIP Albert The Whole World Misses you especially the millions of budding blues guitarists and singers that followed you to learn from you, after you, and that still are today! CAN YOU HEAR UP THERE ALBERT? " I hope so"
lowrence mayfield Yeah, I guessed it right then! And yeah, Albert is my favorite too. Almost all of his songs are the same, but I still never get tired of hearing them over and over. The same licks but I love them every time. Damn, if that ain't magic, I don't know what is!
Saw him open for BB at Tampa Theater not long before he left us. Had seen BB many times by then and never had a chance to hear Albert in person. By far one of the best blues shows I've ever seen.
I walked into work one morning and found a very large gentleman occupying my chair and refusing to move. It was of course-Albert. He and my boss grew up together in Mississippi. God bless both.
When this gentleman plays the blues the world stands still for me...IMHO the finest of the finest. So much soul and rich emotion tinged with a unique rawness to his playing. You can just see where Jimi, Stevie and Rory and so many others got their leads from. Not sure we will ever see the likes of AK again. Rest easy big man.
Wow. the very end when he really starts hitting the notes is pure emotion and something only few could summon on the fretboard. I've been playing for 20+ years and listening to AK just reminds me what true talent sounds like.
This is the First Time I cried in a Long Time, His Sound Will Ring on Forever in my Ears!!!!!Albert is my Mentor and I will Represent that Style till The Day I die,Cheers to the Lefty Upside Down GOD of the Blues,The One The Only Legend Albert King! I miss You and I Know You are ridin with me!!!!!!!#1 in my Heart,Thank You for inspiring me King
Wish I had the chance to meet him when he was living. He is the greatest in blues. Hear his music all the time. Mr King, I love you, thanks for what you did for music.
Hello all, that's me, Lady "J" Huston, playing on Trumpet with the legendary Albert King in 1981.
Thats fucking amazing !! Thanks for sharing that with us it must have been an awesome experience you will never forget ! Long live the Blues and Albert King ❤
The man played from the 50’s to the early 90’s, I was working in Memphis when he passed from a massive heart attack. What a unique guitar virtuoso
There is nothing wrong with telling someone that your tired and need a rest . Thank you Albert for helping me realize that .
Touring constantly is not the easiest thing to do.
@@theodosios2615 Amazing that he done it for so long, it's very tiring.
We were friends for a lot of years.Albert was like a beloved Uncle to me. One cold wintery night outside of Nightstage in Cambridge Mass.I crawled under the bus.To help Albert who was working on it. Slim, he said hey man you got a power lantern...And laughed.As I held the huge light.Yea boss I heard you called for illumination....!!!! That's nice Albert growled as the wind whipped at us.We buttoned up the problem.And Cleaned up our hands with mechanics waterless soap.And went into the club....All night we talked and laughed.And had a taste of 2 together. Albert was always the same.Very very kind to me. And a wonderful friend. His advice was always good. He was just like family to me. I miss him, deeply.I was blessed to call him friend. He was one of a kind.....!!!
Amazing story Steve, Albert is such an incredible guy im to young to have ever of met him but your story made me feel like I knew him aswell thank you for sharing
Nice story! Thanks for sharing it..
Truly a legend and my all time favorite!
♥
EPIC.
I loved him so much. His music dominated my life in the late sixties and seventies. I saw him at clubs in Toronto and he was such a big, warm presence and such a clean, playing guitarist and master of bending notes--what style and soul. So glad you had him as a friend ans have stories to tell. What a guitar player!!
Albert was a very underrated singer. He gives me chills.
Better than BB
The velvet bulldozer 😊
@@AU-pu9vlI used to think that way, too, until I learned to appreciate all the Blues greats for their own unique styles and sounds.
No, No sweetheart.This man built and so inspired musicians. Very to high as artist to others
@AU-pu9vl no just as great as BB
No exaggeration, he must have the most recognisable sound of any guitarist EVER. I'm a player myself, who love classical, blues, jazz and rock guitar...I never fail to hear that it's Albert playing.
rvic11 His sound comes from his fingers....doesn’t use a pick so he has a fat sound.
It's the space between the notes. Every not screams out. SRV lead me to Albert...
Bb Albert jimi and Santana i know IMMEDIATELY when I hear Em
Hear layla from eric clapton.
@@tsuki586 no
“I like playing for the kids and for the people that like to hear me playing. If they enjoy me playing, I enjoy playing” simplicity. Honesty.
Those bends are tearing my soul with joy.
They are tearing my soul. PERIOD
Yup he was a power bender, amazing, deep raw emotion in each bend 😶😎🎶🎸🙏🏼
Because of the way he taught himself, and the way the strings were upside down, he pulled his bends down instead of up.
He really mean it..when he says,"..those of you who wish to have someone to love..(pauses..)like me..I'm alone.."good God..the expression on his face..this man really knows what the blues is all about..
He says..I'm a loner..:)
i grew up on this blues then i raised my children off this
so have I,my don loves albert
The interactions with his drummer are priceless 😭
No matter what style of music you want to play every guitar player should start by studing this Man. This song alone will teach you everything you need to know about playing guitar. 1. Tone 2. Patience (Less can be more) 3. Bending& Vibrato (Make it talk) 4. Playing with feel and feeling 5. Building emotion into your song bring the volume down and hammer it at just the right time and then back down again bring your audience into the song. 6lead the Band. streets smarts compared to book smarts.
This man has serious BLUES
god................. the guitar cry's so beautifully....... fuck that tone......... I've watched about 20 times... and it never gets old
Fucking hell. That outro. So hard to hold tears back. Shit.😞
Pure, raw emotion. Absolutely spellbinding.
My favorite song from Albert King. I know he says for lovers but a local blues band played this song for me when my dad passed.
without the blues there would be no good music. no stones,no clapton, and not many others who have based their music as their own, their muse. this this blues is sweet love,and has saved many a poor soul.
So true!
the godfather of the blues I was lucky to have met him his music touched my soul
His guitar licks are one of a kind..I love plenty of other blues guitar artists but Albert King's upside down strings, left handed lucy, is like a burning hot knife(the licks) through soft butter(my musical/emotional receptors of my brain)....just rips me a new one..like it was said, if you can't feel this you gotta hole in your soul...It usually takes quite a bit to make me "feel" let alone cry but this song, especially this version him being getting old,makes me wail like a baby. RIP true King
Albert's vocal line at 1:48 ("there is nothing I can do") is where the famous lead guitar riff in "Layla" came from. Eric Clapton said in an interview that Duane Allman based the Layla riff on this vocal line, but twice as fast.
Remarkable of that is true!
msteve - only one person alive today to say if it is true...if he said it I’d think it’d true....
I can definitely hear it. I totally believe it.
@@kc7154 Bobby Whitlock is still with us isn't he?
Which bit
R.I.P. Velvet Bulldozer.
Albert King inspired so many artists including Stevie Ray Vaughan. For that alone, he deserves to go down in Blues history as a true legend.
I remember when I was teenager in the late 90s/ early 2000s, I discovered Albert King. I had idolized SRV since I was like 5 years old. Then I heard Albert King. It instantly clicked in my brain. This was SRV's source and wellspring of inspiration. It was like I had unlocked some kind of ancient knowledge. Nobody that I knew at school liked blues music, like I did. I was on an island and I thought I was the only person on Earth that was aware of this magical secret, because when I would try to talk to other kids about it they didn't care, lol. Still to this day I play Albert King records and learn his licks. He was a Jedi Master of the blues and SRV was his student from a far.
Any body that ever has sang in front of loud guitar amp and drumset and hears albert sing knows hes a top singer.
I'm so glad I got to see him perform live in the early '80s. When giants walked the earth!
One of the best blues songs ever written. It speaks to your soul. God rest him. Just one of the all time best blues song.
Agree. Gary Moore used to do a killer version, but Jeff Healey’s is my favorite. Fire!
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Peppermint Harris wrote it-{"It is also credited to have been written by 'Deadric Malone' (a pseudonym of Don Robey), owner of Duke, which was a customary practice for some producers and label owners at that time".}Fenton Robinson recorded it in 1959-Fenton wrote Somebody Loan Me a Dime.
Thanks, I always thought this was an Albert King song. I just listened to the Fenton Robinson version, both are excellent.
that brother could sang, and play the guitar.
I Met Albert King when I was 15..I Love and Miss Him..He was a Gentleman and THat Guitar..
Albert King is one of the best blues singer I have ever heard. . Thank God for giving the world this great artist. May he RIP
If you don't dig the blues you got a hole in your soul. I'll be forever grateful that I got to see Albert twice, once in Little Rock at a small club and once at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas. He played on the back of a flatbed trailer and I've never seen anyone before or since who could seduce a crowd like The Velvet Bulldozer. R.I.P.
I don't want too much out of life except I hope to one day love something in the same way as Albert loved his guitar Lucy.
That's asking for trouble.
To love like that especially a woman is very dangerous.
Itll destroy your life. Itll break your heart with no hope.
It's better to have a woman love you like that and give your love to a guitar like Albert's Lucy.
Exactly dont waste your love on girls... Dream on my dear
The way the crowd started clapping on the off beat and he corrected them is so sick lol
He is teaching the blues.
...you can actually hear every emotion in every single notes, its amazing how this man can express so many things with six strings...
+eduardo arturo astudillo rodriguez its only 5, Albert never used the 6th, and rarely used the 5th
+Marianne Rasmussen That not true. He just didn't play it as often as most people. Take overall junction for example. Also when he outlines the key of the song, he plays the lower octaves of the key, so he uses the 6th.
he's my favorite blues singer.
What a pitty he passed away at 69 he was extremely good and his guitar sound remains unmatched and will remain at it is .
That's some wonderfully fiery playing at the end there!
The king!
Albert King is a Blues Legend! I love this clip with interview. It shows Albert's love of his trusty guitar. His vocals are smooth and his guitar justs cuts deep into ya! Blues music at it's finest!!!
Albert, my love 💕 will follow you as the years go passing by. RIP.
Love how he yells at his band during the first few bars! Dude be like come on! Wake the fuck up!
lightninboy1979 Albert was notorius for calling out the band and especially the sound man and I knew people who knew him and the word was that Albert was an ass kicker on and off the stage but at the same time a very sweet man, he just didn't play
UA-cam recommending this on the first day of the year. Cheers everyone!
Albert King,one of the greatest Guitar players that ever lived, R.I.P.
I absolutely love how they cut the first solo out... that's very good video editing
Everytime i watch this im amazed .... the end is so dang perfekt
What a soul, thank you god for this soul. Thank him for everything he went through he will never know how much he meant to so many. God bless him and keep him close, see you on the other side.
He truly gave himself completely, heart mind and soul for his audience and his music! Albert king was truly unique and the tone of that v guitar was incredible and he played it clean, no effects, nothing but his amazing voice and thoses huge paws on thoses strings. Ripeace Albert king.
The boss,! and gold standard of all blue's guitar players 💯🎶🎵
Praise god for such a tone that touches chords deep in the soul....he is a master at touching those inner tones.
its now part of who i am. One Love.
The voice he has....Fantastic!
Man! That guitar tone and that voice. I hated I never got to see him live.
I saw Him in Carnegie Hall in 968 , fell in love, and still get goosebumps when I hear him, my true love.
OMG everytime i watch this i get chills down my spines
he knows the blues like no one else.
he came back home here in Memphis and took a long break...... He was packed and ready to go back to work. He was tending his nice vegetable garden at his place......and his heart ❤️ gave out. Rest In Sublime Peace King Albert!
So great he brings shivers to my flesh.
Because you understand true art and culture baby many people dont understand this at your level to understand life the blues is 400 years of pain that are hidden in those notes many can copy the blues but albert is the blues to listen to this says alot about you stay involved
can bring a man to tears.
This man has inspired so many as a prolific used to his to them as artists. A what music is inspirational and always shall be. That's alright ❤.
What an absolute legend. Those bends near the end are a powerful
Amen
Mr. King could give you something special in his tone but then again youd have to come back to feel it again. The man had the Blue's past the soul and more! Thanks Mr. King!
You people to future musicians do not recognize just how the blues actually created the axis of music today. Huge!
To the biggie in times in an artists world. Rolling out daily. Lower levels today to that ocean of fishes. We shall never see such a waves
i just saw bb king at montreal in 93 and i can say that albert is the king.
Most incredible Blues man I’ve ever seen period.
One of the few with as distinctive voice with the guitar and his singing. Just amazing
The thing that kills me is there isn't enough Albert King Video's and there is so many tune you never get to see live. I love Born under a Bad sign but it isn't his best. I would love to see an entire King concert in all its glory and from the 60's at his prime.
GREAT ALBERT KING ....
NEVER SEEN ANYBODY PLAY A GUITAR LIKE THAT,MYYYY GOD
What a down to earth man...and how simple hes explaining his passion for lucy like a child....legend...
He sounds like such a genuine and humble guy
When Albert said he was tired pretty sure it was the understatement of the century. Once an act like his becomes popular ( hot) like his did, and others like it, all over the world, and US concert & venue promoters will practically fist fight to book it for their show which can run a guy ragged in only a couple of years! Touring is every Artists decision but the $ is so alluring to them it's difficult to turn it down.He probably had to beg borrow and steal ( demand ) his any chosen time off. If they could they have booked him 365 days a year until he died because the health of the human beings that are required to make a show are not their top priority. And from what I was told he huge in stature, could have a mean disposition when he wanted to but %99 of the time he WAS the nicest guy any one could ever meet. RIP Albert The Whole World Misses you especially the millions of budding blues guitarists and singers that followed you to learn from you, after you, and that still are today! CAN YOU HEAR UP THERE ALBERT? " I hope so"
I have this dvd, live in Sweden, I love it
The one and only king among the three
please name the three!
Shubham Gaikwad That's easy, Freddie, B.B, and Albert, of course i love the other two but Albert for me is the King
lowrence mayfield Yeah, I guessed it right then!
And yeah, Albert is my favorite too.
Almost all of his songs are the same, but I still never get tired of hearing them over and over. The same licks but I love them every time. Damn, if that ain't magic, I don't know what is!
@@lowrencemayfield4271 bb dude live in Montreal 93
Love when he corrected the crowd clapping off tempo. 😂
The blues in the pure state ... bless from Argentina
He is the real KING !!!
The Blues,the real Blues,the most soulfull music ever....if you never played the blues from the heart,you can't play nothing...
Saw him open for BB at Tampa Theater not long before he left us. Had seen BB many times by then and never had a chance to hear Albert in person. By far one of the best blues shows I've ever seen.
It's one of my favorites. I find out about that a couple of months ago through you tube.
my favorite King...
no disrespect to BB...but Albert is the king
Oh man, when he finally let's it rip loose near the end...!
I walked into work one morning and found a very large gentleman occupying my chair and refusing to move. It was of course-Albert. He and my boss grew up together in Mississippi. God bless both.
another note: listen to the voice..i just love it. that sullen vibrato gets right into my spine..but hey! thats me ;)
The Notorious BIG of the Blues
Love the music 💙💙🎤🎸💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟⭐️💫
When this gentleman plays the blues the world stands still for me...IMHO the finest of the finest.
So much soul and rich emotion tinged with a unique rawness to his playing.
You can just see where Jimi, Stevie and Rory and so many others got their leads from.
Not sure we will ever see the likes of AK again.
Rest easy big man.
I love his tone, man I love this music
graciously humbling
Wow. the very end when he really starts hitting the notes is pure emotion and something only few could summon on the fretboard. I've been playing for 20+ years and listening to AK just reminds me what true talent sounds like.
The massive guitar sound of Albert King comes shining through! Albert was the king!
YEAH! Everybody say yeah! Greatest Blues guitarist of all time!!!!
They broke the mold...! RIP, Mr. King...honored to have shook your hand...
cry guitar cry. damn albert 'king' really was just that!
Stellar....
Albert King,B B King, and Howlin Wolf were three great bluesmen
bout to break open a can of kick arse on the drummer lol
It's "whoop" arse.
Very sweet indeed. Love the way the guitar is right up in the mix.
This is the First Time I cried in a Long Time,
His Sound Will Ring on Forever in my Ears!!!!!Albert is my Mentor and I will Represent that Style till The Day I die,Cheers to the Lefty Upside Down GOD of the Blues,The One The Only Legend Albert King! I miss You and I Know You are ridin with me!!!!!!!#1 in my Heart,Thank You for inspiring me King
Wish I had the chance to meet him when he was living. He is the greatest in blues. Hear his music all the time. Mr King, I love you, thanks for what you did for music.
Well stated! All modern music genres owe a thanks to the early blues and jazz men. Without them, who knows where the hell we'd be now.
beautiful blues beautiful blues
Listening to his, it just does something to you.