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Released
  
August 1961

Artist
  
B.B. King

Genre
  
Blues

Producer
  
John Broven

Release date
  
August 1961

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Recorded
  
March 1960; Los Angeles, California

My Kind of Blues (1961)
  
Live at the Regal (1965)

Label
  
EMI‐Capitol Music Special Markets

Similar
  
BB King albums, Blues albums

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My Kind of Blues is the sixth studio album released by B. B. King in 1961. It apparently emanates from a single recording session from about March 3, 1960. A remastered and expanded edition was released in 2003.

Contents

Side one

  1. "You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now" (B. B. King, Joe Josea) - 5:15
  2. "Mr. Pawnbroker" (King, Jules Taub) - 3:16
  3. "Understand" (Cecil Gant) - 2:39
  4. "Someday Baby" (Lightnin' Hopkins) - 2:54
  5. "Driving Wheel" (Roosevelt Sykes) - 2:52

Side two

  1. "Walking Dr. Bill" (Doctor Clayton) - 3:41
  2. "My Own Fault" (King) - 3:34
  3. "Fishin' After Me" (Robert Petway) - 2:29
  4. "Hold That Train" (Clayton) - 3:58
  5. "Please Set the Date" (Minnie McCoy) - 2:49

2003 re-release bonus tracks

  1. "Sunny Road" (Sykes) - 2:57
  2. "Running Wild" - 2:19
  3. "Blues at Sunrise" (Ivory Joe Hunter) - 3:00
  4. "Drifting Blues" (Charles Brown, Eddie Williams, Johnny Moore) - 3:15
  5. "Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door" (Casey Bill Weldon) - 2:46
  6. "Look the World Over" (Ernest Lawlars) (Undubbed version) - 3:23
  7. "Walking Dr. Bill" (Clayton) (Overdub) - 3:44
  8. "Hold That Train" (Clayton) - 5:05

Personnel

  • B.B. King - guitar, vocals
  • Lloyd Glenn - piano
  • with, probably:

  • Ralph Hamilton - bass
  • Jessie Sailes - drums
  • Technical
  • Joesph Tauber - photography
  • Songs

    1You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now5:16
    2Mr Pawnbroker3:16
    3Understand2:38

    References

    My Kind of Blues Wikipedia