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Six Silver Strings

by B.B. King

Product Description:

Producers: David Crawford, John Landis, Ira Newborn.

Recorded at The Studio, Hialeah, Florida. Includes liner notes by Ruth A. Robinson, John E. Abbey.

SIX SILVER STRINGS, B.B. King's 50th album, bears the unmistakable sound of the era in which it was released. After the understated title track--a heartfelt lament to romantic loss resulting from B.B.'s love affair with music--things pick up in sprightly fashion. His version of the blues standard "Big Boss Man" sounds eerily like Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." "Into the Night," King's song for the 1985 movie of the same name, is heavy on synthesizers and programmed drums (the film's director John Landis even gets a production credit for the song).

"My Lucille" has a similarly slick '80s feel. "Memory Lane" features romantic spoken-word narration, textured keyboards and a conspicuous absence of guitar. Elsewhere, King takes a fairly straightforward approach to the classic "In the Midnight Hour." "My Guitar Sings the Blues" is this record's timeless blues number. Like many classic King cuts, it begins "I asked my baby..." Basically, any song that begins this way means we are firmly in B.B. King territory--get ready for a deluxe delivery of the blues.