{"id":3947,"date":"2012-07-18T09:13:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T14:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2012-07-18T09:13:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T14:13:34","slug":"albert-king-one-of-the-three-kings-of-the-blues-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/albert-king-one-of-the-three-kings-of-the-blues-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert King – One Of The Three Kings Of The Blues Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Albert King was one of the original Kings of the Blues Guitar. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Albert King played a huge role in blues music, not only because of his stature standing at about 6 foot 4 inches, but because of his guitar, his voice and his story.\u00a0 Albert King became known as one of the three Kings of the Blues Guitar, along with Freddie and B.B., and had such hit songs as “Born Under A Bad Sign,” and “Crosscut Saw.”\u00a0 King toured on the road for many years and influenced entire generations of blues guitarists including Eric Clapton and Gary Moore.\u00a0 I found a few video performances that feature King and his band, plus a special appearance with the great Gary Moore.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy the videos!<\/p>\n

I thought I might as well start out with Albert King’s most popular hit song, “Born Under A Bad Sign.”\u00a0 Check out this performance with his band at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BKY8KIt9kqc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Next, King performs with another great blues guitarist, Gary Moore.\u00a0 Together the pair plays a rockin’ version of the classic blues song, “Stormy Monday.”\u00a0 Check it out at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6V48_CvbHP8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lastly, Albert King is in true fashion in this video.\u00a0 Of all the videos in this post, King is the youngest in this one and it’s pretty amazing how he can interact with the crowd.\u00a0 Check it out at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h5dpp2iCRwM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Albert King was one of the best blues guitarists to ever play in the style.\u00a0 Even today his music and his playing continues to inspire blues guitarists all over the world.\u00a0 We can be thankful that there are recorded performances and videos for all of us to enjoy and learn from.\u00a0 Speaking of which, I hope you enjoyed all three of the videos in the post today about Albert King!<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Albert King played a huge role in blues music, not only because of his stature standing at about 6 foot 4 inches, but because of his guitar, his voice and his story.\u00a0 Albert King became known as one of the three Kings of the Blues Guitar, along with Freddie and B.B., and had such hit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}