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Exclusive Album Premiere: Stax Remasters Edition of Albert King's 'Born Under a Bad Sign'

Posted 03/27/2013 at 6:22am | by Damian Fanelli

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Today, GuitarWorld.com presents the exclusive premiere of the Stax Remasters edition of Albert King's classic Born Under a Bad Sign album. This new deluxe version of the album, which originally was released in 1967, will be released April 2 by Stax Records, a unit of Concord Music Group. It features several bonus tracks, including an untitled instrumental and alternate takes of "Born Under a Bad Sign," "Crosscut Saw," "The Hunter" and "Personal Manager."

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Stax Records to Release Deluxe Version of Albert King's 'Born Under a Bad Sign' Album

Posted 02/21/2013 at 11:33am | by Damian Fanelli

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On April 2, Stax Records, a unit of Concord Music Group, will release the deluxe edition of one of Albert King's most revered albums — 1967's Born Under a Bad Sign. The album will feature bonus tracks and updated liner notes by music historian Bill Dahl.

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New DVD: Learn to Play Blues Like the Master, Albert King

Posted 02/14/2013 at 6:21am | by Guitar World Staff

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With his distinctive bends, rapid-fire phrasing and sweet vibrato, Albert King is considered one of the greatest guitarists in blues history.

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40th Anniversary Edition of Albert King's 'I'll Play the Blues for You' to Be Released in May

Posted 04/06/2012 at 10:30am | by Damian Fanelli

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Albert King's classic 1972 album, I’ll Play the Blues for You, will be released May 22 as part of Concord Music's Stax Remasters series. The album has undergone 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino and features four previously unreleased bonus tracks, plus new liner notes by music journalist and roots music historian Bill Dahl.

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50 Classic Albums Celebrating Their 40th Anniversary in 2012

Posted 03/16/2012 at 9:57am | by Damian Fanelli

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Nineteen hundred and seventy-two is one of those rare years -- like, say, 1967, 1969, 1971 and 1991 -- that saw the release of several seminal rock albums. As we wrote last year in our 1971 story, "even for a year that falls squarely in the heart of the 'classic rock' era, it was a particularly classic year."

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Poll: Who is the Real “King” of the Blues?

Posted 08/04/2011 at 9:57am | by Damian Fanelli

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Exactly why legendary blues guitarists Albert King, B.B. King and Freddie King never got together to make a blues-themed Christmas album called We Three Kings is one of the great mysteries of the universe. I figure it would've been an obvious move.

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