The regal twang and moan of Albert King’s guitar has long been one of the most riveting sounds in urban blues. Now, the advanced technology of SACD brings out every nuance of the guitar style that affected the playing of a galaxy of modern blues and rock guitarists, including Jimi Hendrix, Otis Rush, Eric Clapton, Albert Collins, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robert Cray. If King hadn’t developed his way of bending notes into uncannily human cries, shouts and whispers, modern blues guitar would be a different phenomenon. King played his right-handed guitar upside down and backward, using his left hand. But there was nothing backward about the music he made. Literally pulling emotion from the strings, he created resonance and a sustained wail that distinguished him from all other blues guitarists. In I’ll Play The Blues For You, one of the prime albums of King’s Stax period, we hear a thrilling live performance of his classic "I’ll Be Doggone" and a hair-raising "Don’t Burn Down The Bridge." Throughout, the warm ruggedness of the master’s singing complements his guitar.

Track Listing
1. I'll Play The Blues For You (Parts I & II)
2. Little Brother
3. Breaking Up Somebody's Home
4. High Cost Of Loving
5. I'll Be Doggone
6. Answer To The Laundromat Blues
7. Don't Burn Down The Bridge (Cause You Might Wanna Come Back Across)
8. Angel Of Mercy