Albert King - 1981 - Born Under A Bad Sign video free download

Paolo Gomma

Un chitarrista blues e cantante, il re era una grande influenza nel mondo della chitarra blues. Uno dei "Tre Re del Blues Guitar" (insieme a BB King e Freddie King

Defmonkful

ABSOLUTE BRILLIANCE... just listen to the guitar speak

Mrung0wa

I've seen King Albert twice in a small venue in San Diego. I was always told that King Albert was better than B.B. I consider myself a better person for experiencing those two exceptional shows. He said "If you don't love the blues you've got a hole in your soul". I been quoting that to people ever since.@_@

Randy Resnick

*Albert King, one of the most recognizable guitar and voice*I once prepared a radio contest for listeners of Patrick Verbeke's Europe 1 blues show. I took 5 second excerpts of three guitar riffs: B.B. King, Albert King and Freddy (or Freddie) King, all R.I.P. Each one was uniquely identifiable and it didn't take long for a winner to call in. Albert's voice is instantly apparent, even on this not too great video, and his guitar playing is mostly around a single riff, if you're a musician, bend to 5th, a short minor 3rd and a long root tone. In A minor, that's E, C and A. With those three notes he creates a whole universe in which every atom in it is his. I would bet money than there isn't a single blue guitarist who hasn't been influenced by Albert King, from Jimi to Stevie Ray to Susan Tedeschi or whoever is the hot blues person now.#music 

Abel W

Albert has a splint on his finger.

Hiroshi Murai

*"Born* *Under* *A* *Bad* *Sign"* by Albert King - Live

Hiroshi Murai

*"Born* *Under* *A* *Bad* *Sign"* by Albert King - Live

WHAC420

ten years before I was born

swee abn

i so love this

Jerry Johnson

April 25: Happy birthday Mr Albert King, (1923-1992) Posthumous Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, formerly Three Kings of Blues w/ B.B. King and Freddie King. Thank you and God bless. RIP

Randy Culler

*Albert King was born 92 years ago today*Commentary from +Frank Beacham A blues guitarist and singer, King was a major influence in the world of blues guitar. One of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with B.B. King and Freddie King), Albert King stood 6-foot, 4-inches and weighed 250 pounds. He was known as "The Velvet Bulldozer."He was born Albert Nelson on a cotton plantation in Indianola, Mississippi. During his childhood he would sing at a family gospel group at a church where his father played the guitar.One of 13 children, King grew up picking cotton on plantations near Forrest City, Arkansas, where the family moved when he was eight.He began his professional work as a musician with a group called In The Groove Boys in Osceola, Arkansas. Moving north to Gary, Indiana and later St. Louis, Missouri, he briefly played drums for Jimmy Reed's band and on several early Reed recordings.Influenced by blues musicians Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lonnie Johnson, the electric guitar became his signature instrument, his preference being the Gibson Flying V which he named "Lucy."King earned his nickname "The Velvet Bulldozer" during this period as he drove one of them and also worked as a mechanic to make a living.King moved to Gary, Indiana in the early 1950s, then to Chicago in 1953 where he cut his first single for Parrot Records, but it was only a minor regional success. He then went back to St. Louis in 1956 and formed a new band. During this period, he settled on using the Flying V as his primary guitar.He resumed recording in 1959 with his first minor hit, "I'm a Lonely Man," written by Little Milton, who was Bobbin Records A&R man, a fellow guitar hero and responsible for King's signing with the label.It was not until his 1961 release "Don't Throw Your Love on Me So Strong" that King had a major hit, reaching #14 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart. The song was included on his first album, The Big Blues, released in 1962.By modern standards, The Big Blues feels completely generic with little of note except King's guitar, but in 1962 it was fresh and marked a new type of clean, sharp blues over the "dirty" sound that characterized the genre during the 50s.In 1966, King moved to Memphis, where he signed with the Stax record label. Produced by Al Jackson, Jr., King with Booker T. & the MGs recorded dozens of influential sides, such as "Crosscut Saw" and "As The Years Go Passing By."In 1967, Stax released the album, Born Under a Bad Sign, which was not technically a studio album, but a collection of all the singles King recorded at Stax.The title track of that album (written by Booker T. Jones and William Bell) became King's best-known song and has been covered by many artists (from British rock group Cream, Paul Rodgers, Canadian guitarist Pat Travers, American rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix to cartoon character Homer Simpson).The production of the songs was sparse, clean and maintained a traditional blues sound while also sounding fresh and thoroughly contemporary. Almost as important as King himself was the "menacing" bass of Donald “Duck” Dunn, which at some points approached an early metal feel.Born Under A Bad Sign propelled Albert King to mainstream popularity at the comparatively late age of 44 and was one of the last albums recorded by an artist who's career began before the rock-and-roll era to be truly innovative, predictive of future music trends and influential on young musicians of the era.Another landmark album followed with Live Wire/Blues Power, from one of many dates King played at promoter Bill Graham's Fillmore venues. It had a wide and long-term influence on Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Robbie Robertson, and later Gary Moore and Stevie Ray Vaughan.According to Bill Graham: "Albert was one of the artists I used many times for various reasons. He wasn't just a good guitar player; he had a wonderful stage presence, he was very congenial and warm, he was relaxed on stage and he related to the public.Also he never became a shuck-and-jiver. One of the things that happened in the '60s — it's not a very nice thing to say, but it happens to be true — was that blues musicians began to realize that white America would accept anything they did on stage. And so many of them became jive. But Albert remained a guy who just went on stage and said 'Let's play.'"King influenced others such as Mick Taylor, Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, Mike Bloomfield and Joe Walsh. He also had an impact on contemporaries Albert Collins and Otis Rush.He was often cited by Stevie Ray Vaughan as having been his greatest influence. Clapton has said that his work on the 1967 Cream hit "Strange Brew" and throughout the album Disraeli Gears was inspired by King.King died on December 21, 1992 from a heart attack in his Memphis home. His final concert had been in Los Angeles two days earlier.He was given a funeral procession with the Memphis Horns playing "When The Saints Go Marching In" and buried in Edmondson, Arkansas near his childhood home.B.B. King eulogized him by stating "Albert wasn't my brother in blood, but he was my brother in blues."Here, King performs *Born Under a Bad Sign* in 1981

Randy Culler

*Albert King was born 92 years ago today*Commentary from +Frank Beacham A blues guitarist and singer, King was a major influence in the world of blues guitar. One of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with B.B. King and Freddie King), Albert King stood 6-foot, 4-inches and weighed 250 pounds. He was known as "The Velvet Bulldozer."He was born Albert Nelson on a cotton plantation in Indianola, Mississippi. During his childhood he would sing at a family gospel group at a church where his father played the guitar.One of 13 children, King grew up picking cotton on plantations near Forrest City, Arkansas, where the family moved when he was eight.He began his professional work as a musician with a group called In The Groove Boys in Osceola, Arkansas. Moving north to Gary, Indiana and later St. Louis, Missouri, he briefly played drums for Jimmy Reed's band and on several early Reed recordings.Influenced by blues musicians Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lonnie Johnson, the electric guitar became his signature instrument, his preference being the Gibson Flying V which he named "Lucy."King earned his nickname "The Velvet Bulldozer" during this period as he drove one of them and also worked as a mechanic to make a living.King moved to Gary, Indiana in the early 1950s, then to Chicago in 1953 where he cut his first single for Parrot Records, but it was only a minor regional success. He then went back to St. Louis in 1956 and formed a new band. During this period, he settled on using the Flying V as his primary guitar.He resumed recording in 1959 with his first minor hit, "I'm a Lonely Man," written by Little Milton, who was Bobbin Records A&R man, a fellow guitar hero and responsible for King's signing with the label.It was not until his 1961 release "Don't Throw Your Love on Me So Strong" that King had a major hit, reaching #14 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart. The song was included on his first album, The Big Blues, released in 1962.By modern standards, The Big Blues feels completely generic with little of note except King's guitar, but in 1962 it was fresh and marked a new type of clean, sharp blues over the "dirty" sound that characterized the genre during the 50s.In 1966, King moved to Memphis, where he signed with the Stax record label. Produced by Al Jackson, Jr., King with Booker T. & the MGs recorded dozens of influential sides, such as "Crosscut Saw" and "As The Years Go Passing By."In 1967, Stax released the album, Born Under a Bad Sign, which was not technically a studio album, but a collection of all the singles King recorded at Stax.The title track of that album (written by Booker T. Jones and William Bell) became King's best-known song and has been covered by many artists (from British rock group Cream, Paul Rodgers, Canadian guitarist Pat Travers, American rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix to cartoon character Homer Simpson).The production of the songs was sparse, clean and maintained a traditional blues sound while also sounding fresh and thoroughly contemporary. Almost as important as King himself was the "menacing" bass of Donald “Duck” Dunn, which at some points approached an early metal feel.Born Under A Bad Sign propelled Albert King to mainstream popularity at the comparatively late age of 44 and was one of the last albums recorded by an artist who's career began before the rock-and-roll era to be truly innovative, predictive of future music trends and influential on young musicians of the era.Another landmark album followed with Live Wire/Blues Power, from one of many dates King played at promoter Bill Graham's Fillmore venues. It had a wide and long-term influence on Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Robbie Robertson, and later Gary Moore and Stevie Ray Vaughan.According to Bill Graham: "Albert was one of the artists I used many times for various reasons. He wasn't just a good guitar player; he had a wonderful stage presence, he was very congenial and warm, he was relaxed on stage and he related to the public.Also he never became a shuck-and-jiver. One of the things that happened in the '60s — it's not a very nice thing to say, but it happens to be true — was that blues musicians began to realize that white America would accept anything they did on stage. And so many of them became jive. But Albert remained a guy who just went on stage and said 'Let's play.'"King influenced others such as Mick Taylor, Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, Mike Bloomfield and Joe Walsh. He also had an impact on contemporaries Albert Collins and Otis Rush.He was often cited by Stevie Ray Vaughan as having been his greatest influence. Clapton has said that his work on the 1967 Cream hit "Strange Brew" and throughout the album Disraeli Gears was inspired by King.King died on December 21, 1992 from a heart attack in his Memphis home. His final concert had been in Los Angeles two days earlier.He was given a funeral procession with the Memphis Horns playing "When The Saints Go Marching In" and buried in Edmondson, Arkansas near his childhood home.B.B. King eulogized him by stating "Albert wasn't my brother in blood, but he was my brother in blues."Here, King performs *Born Under a Bad Sign* in 1981

Justin Brown

The wonderful Albert King simply brilliant, hope you all enjoy.....

Jim Stoeber

Feels like the story of my life.

chris kaszuk

Awesome tune. Is it just me or was that Jeff Foxworthy dancing towards the end of the video?

Robert Lazaneo

My song! I was born on August 13th when its on a Friday., I relate!

agnaldo victorio

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schelleymorrow

The guy (in the rear) playing the lead guitar in this video (1981) is Claude Morrow (my husband). He was an extremely talented musician and enjoyed playing with Albert King! I posted the photo on the left of us in remembrance of him.

Reneep34

One of the "baddest" Blues men, EVER!!

G Philip C

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