Live Wire/Blues Power is a blues album by Albert King. It was recorded live in 1968 at the Fillmore Auditorium. Leftovers from the recordings were released on the albums Wednesday Night in San Francisco and Thursday Night in San Francisco.
The album peaked at No. 150 on the Billboard 200.
Production The album was produced by Al Jackson Jr.
Critical reception Rolling Stone called the album "one man’s reworking of a classic format to make an intensely personal statement, invoking all the cliches without becoming for one second a cliche itself." The Encyclopedia of Popular Music deemed it a "classic [that] introduced [King's] music to the white rock audience."
Track listing "Watermelon Man" (Herbie Hancock) – 4:04 "Blues Power" (Albert King) – 10:18 "Night Stomp" (Raymond Jackson, King) – 5:49 "Blues at Sunrise" (King) – 8:44 "Please Love Me" (B.B. King, Jules Taub) – 4:01 "Look Out" (King) – 5:20
Personnel Albert King – electric guitar, vocals Willie James Exon – guitar James Washington – organ Roosevelt Pointer – bass Theotis Morgan – drums Technical Bill Halverson, Ron Capone – engineer Ivan Nagy – cover photograph
Charts + Chart performance for Live Wire/Blues Power Chart (2024) Peakposition Croatian International Albums (HDU) 33
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