Recommendations of the Editorial team
“The fascinating thing” Live at the Regal ‘is BBS interaction with the audience “, once Mark Knopfler enthused,” how he encourages people, with how much humor and dedication he tells his stories and what spontaneous enthusiasm is shown to him is unique and has touched me very much. “
There are plates that are high -quality. Some know that they are more relevant to pop history. However, when BB King plays on November 21, 1964 in the Rule Theater in Chicago in front of African -American audience, one thing is captured and preserved for all time, which is so rare that it offers hardly any other plate before or after this level: the magic of the moment.
Because: The magic that surrounds the blues guitarist that evening and has people’s euphoria trees back like Ali against Foreman is only spontaneous.
BB is on the scales that calls him to eternal size: his experience from up to 340 appearances annually, his emotional depth, the healing gospel of his faith, the first 40 years of his life as black in white society.
By Lars Thieleke