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The Best of Albert King, Vol. 1 ()

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  1. I'll Play the Blues for You, Pts. 1 & 2
  2. Killing Floor
  3. Honky Tonk Women
  4. Sky Is Crying
  5. Breaking up Somebody's Home
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  1. I'll Play the Blues for You, Pts. 1 & 2
  2. Killing Floor
  3. Honky Tonk Women
  4. Sky Is Crying
  5. Breaking up Somebody's Home
  6. Hound Dog
  7. That's What the Blues Is All About
  8. Angel of Mercy
  9. Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
  10. Can't You See What You're Doing to Me
  11. Answer to the Laundromat Blues
  12. I Wanna Get Funky
  13. Blues Power
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"The best of Albert King"? More like the best material that he happened to record for Stax between 1968 and 1973. Even that's debatable, the 13 tracks including covers such as "Honky Tonk Woman," "Sky Is Crying," and "Hound Dog." It does present a reasonable cross-section of his soul-inflected work of the period, drawing from over a half-dozen LPs and a couple of singles, though you might be as well or better off with his more focused individual titles. And for the true "best of Albert King," Rhino's Ultimate Collection ...

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