Customer Reviews
As it was - By: Mr. Stephen Edwards, 22 Jun 2007 
This is the real thing. One of the great live recordings in any genre, it reallly is "live" with alll the imperfections & crowd intrusions of the gig as it happened. BB King was always at the soul end of the blues styles, & this concert was recorded at the time that soul music was reallly taking off in BBs heartland. That fact is reflected in the performance - brash, noisy & above alll entertaining.
It is that good - By: eclectic warrior, 06 Sep 2006 I think this is one of the best live albums of any type, in the sense that you get the real feeling of the audience hysteria. In a similar way to James Brown "Live At The Apollo" it's not note perfect & there's been no tarting up in the studio.
"Sweet Little Angel" is a fabulous version with a great vocal & good audience involvement, alongside "How Blue Can You Get".
It's a long way from the polished studio albums released recently but essential nontheless.
King of the Blues - By: , 05 Feb 2006 This albums just shows how great BB is live. His singing is epic & his lead guitar perfect. As a guitarist myself i can say that this is nowhere near as natural & easy as BB makes it sound. His tone compares well with any of the more flash blues players. Fantastic!
The best live blues album you will ever hear - By: Mr Pilchy, 09 Jan 2006 This is one amazing album.If you can get it on vinyl instead of CD, do so......it will only add to the raw & powerful sound of B B King at his best. His guitar playing is at it's peak & his vocals have never been better..........the crowd reallly add to the overalll impact of this live masterpiece. If you only ever buy one blues album...make it this one!
Good - Not THAT Good Though - By: DrSax, 19 Nov 2004 
Sure, Blues Boy lives up to his nickname, but the band is at another venue altogether, that is, until toward the end, when they appear to realise where they are...
I would not rate this CD to be BB King's best live recording, not by a long chalk - he certainly doesn't. Although the guitar licks are typicallly his, there is far more mature playing available for the discerning listener on more recent CDs of his. And he's in better voice, too.
So the crowd was boisterous that night, so what? It is the performance that counts.
