[.ca] Blues Summit

From Amazon.co.uk:
This is B.B. King's most delightful recording of the 1990s. He duets with other blues greats, including Koko Taylor ("Something You Got"), Buddy Guy ("I Pity the Fool"), Etta James ("There's Something on Your Mind"), Ruth Brown ("You're the Boss") and his dear friend John Lee Hooker ("You Shook Me"). The peaks come in his guitar shootout with Texas Telecaster slinger Albert Collins on "Call It Stormy Monday" and his high-spirited run-in with Katie Webster, who steals their performance of "Since I Met You Baby" with her saucy asides. --Ted Drozdowski

Amazon.com essential recording:
This is B.B. King's most delightful recording of the '90s. He duets with other blues greats, including Koko Taylor ("Something You Got"), Buddy Guy ("I Pity the Fool"), Etta James ("There's Something on Your Mind"), Ruth Brown ("You're the Boss"), and his dear friend John Lee Hooker ("You Shook Me"). The peaks come in his guitar shootout with Texas Telecaster slinger Albert Collins on "Call It Stormy Monday" and his high-spirited run-in with Katie Webster, who steals their performance of "Since I Met You Baby" with her saucy asides. --Ted Drozdowski

The Summit:
One of life's greatest pleasures is listening to (and watching) a performer who truly enjoys his work. B.B. King is one of those performers. He loves the music and he loves performing and if by chance he can have a little help from his friends - why that makes everything just a little bit better. The Blues Summit is truly a remarkable cd, with BB performer duets with some of the elite of the blues performers. Every song is a pleasure. There is not a throwaway on this cd. BB does great work with the divas - Koko Taylor, Etta James, Katie Webster, Ruth Brown and Irma Thomas. Listening to Ruth Brown and BB do You're the Boss, you just know they are having a great time performing together. Call it Stormy Monday with Albert Collins is a great version of this classic song. This is a good cd for purists, those who like their blues with a little rock and someone wanting an introduction to the blues. It will put a smile on your face.

The Monster duets!!!:
This is a superb B.B.'s album,really one of the bests from 90's,and we can recognize a great performance of B.B. King,not only with his "Lucille",but still yet with his raucous loudly great vocal tunes,like never before!!Great album,great participations,with the gem of the blues.The presences here are enriched with the performances of the legendary "Memphis Horns"and Kim Wilsom from "The Fabulous Thunderbirds". This is an album to be at a special place at any bluesfans collections!I really recomend!

Keeping good company:
This is a very enjoyable release from B.B. King, and friends! Well recorded and a very nice selection of songs and guests joining B.B. - I think this is what makes this recording such a treat! The stand out song for me is Call it Stormy Mondy with Albert Collins - a great version of this song!

Awesome, nearly flawless:
I bought this album 4 years after it's release (I was 10 years old), and listened the hell out of the first song, then put it down and didn't touch it until a few months ago. Now, a full-fledged Blues fan who can finally relate to what the Blues is and respect the guitar playing, I listened to this album and was blown away. Some of the songs still aren't all that good to me today (Since I Met You Baby, Somehting You Got, You're The Boss) and the rest are utterly awesome, the best track being I Gotta Move Outta This Neighborhood/Nobody Loves Me But My Mother. The solos on the song are ... great, and it's got some classic B.B. humor as well. A close second is Stormy Monday, with the trademark great solo (can he write a bad one?) and Blues lyrics. The rest of the album plays great with any Blues surroundings (Playin' With My Friends-backyard BBQ, and any other song-highway, jailhouse, empty bed, bottom of whiskey glass...). B.B. King will always be remembered for the Blues. This album only furthers his status as the king of the Blues...

A Blues Event!:
This aptly-titled collection of blues duets between BB and his fellow blues greats is nothing less than a milestone in recorded sound, living history really. But don't put this CD up on blocks in your garage, listen to it again and again and wear it out! You'll be a better person for it. Your neighbors will wonder why you've suddenly decided to smile all the time. Even telemarketers will feel good as you pleasantly tell them 'no thank you'! This fine set of tunes is better than...well, better than lotsa other things, I can tell you that. You must own this CD. You must own this CD....

• Playin' With My Friends - Robert Cray, B.B. King
• Since I Met You Baby - B.B. King, Katie Webster
• I Pity the Fool - Buddy Guy, B.B. King
• You Shook Me - B.B. King
• Something You Got - B.B. King, Koko Taylor
• There's Something on Your Mind - Etta James, B.B. King
• Little by Little - Lowell Fulson, B.B. King
• Stormy Monday - Albert Collins, B.B. King
• You're the Boss - Ruth Brown, B.B. King
• We're Gonna Make It - B.B. King, Irma Thomas
• I Gotta Move Out of This Neighborhood/Nobody Loves Me But My Mother - B.B. King & His Orchestra, B.B. King
• Everybody's Had the Blues - B.B. King, , Joe Louis Walker