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- Blues On The Bayou
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B.B. King
Released 1998

Blues Man
05:19
5,793 plays

Blues Boys Tune
03:29
5,742 plays

Bad Case Of Love
05:28
4,750 plays

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- 1
- Blues Boys Tune
- 03:29
- 5,742 plays

- 2
- Bad Case Of Love
- 05:28
- 4,750 plays

- 3
- I'll Survive
- 04:52
- 3,848 plays

- 4
- Mean Ole' World
- 04:30
- 3,739 plays

- 5
- Blues Man
- 05:19
- 5,793 plays

- 6
- Broken Promise
- 03:34
- 3,531 plays

- 7
- Darlin' What Happened
- 05:26
- 3,460 plays

- 8
- Shake It Up And Go
- 03:10
- 3,448 plays

- 9
- Blues We Like
- 05:08
- 3,539 plays

- 10
- Good Man Gone Bad
- 03:20
- 3,091 plays

- 11
- If I Lost You
- 04:57
- 3,065 plays

- 12
- Tell Me Baby
- 03:26
- 3,003 plays

- 13
- I Got Some Outside Help I Don't Need
- 04:37
- 3,031 plays

- 14
- Blues In G
- 03:28
- 4,283 plays

- 15
- If That Ain't It I Quit
- 03:20
- 2,850 plays

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album review

B.B. King made his debut as producer with Blues on the Bayou, released in October 1998. He employs the most basic of ideas for this project: record an album of B.B. King tunes, with B.B. King's regular road band, under B.B. King's supervision. Keeping it loose, relaxed, and focused, King cut this album in four days down at a secluded studio in Louisiana and came up with one of his strongest, modern-day albums in many years. No duets, no special guests, just King and his road warrior band, playing his songs with him producing the results -- no overdubs, just simple, no-nonsense blues done like he would do them on-stage. The result is a no-frills, straight-ahead session that shows that King might be have been 73 at the time of this date, but he still had plenty of gas left in the tank. Tracks like "I'll Survive," and the jumping "Shake It Up and Go," "Darlin' What Happened," the minor keyed "Blues Boy Tune," the instrumental "Blues We Like," and the closing "If That's It I Quit" show him stretching out in a way he has seldom done in a studio environment, and the result is one of his best albums in recent memory. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide