B.B. KingKing of the Blues

Seventy-seven tracks of a man bending one note until it weeps. Three O'Clock Blues is where it started, the slow shuffle that launched his name. The Thrill Is Gone became his signature, string swept and minor key, every Lucille bend aching against the band. How Blue Can You Get is a clinic in call and response, his guitar finishing the lines his voice starts. Chronological from 1949 to 1991, thirty cuts new to CD, plus a booklet of his own notes. The whole arc of the king in one box.