The Vinyl Countdown # 1496

Albert King, Live Wire/Blues Power (1968)

I still remember, vividly, when I first heard Albert King. This giant bear of a man that was dragging the guitar around stage, wrestling with it, wrangling it in an ugly way to make blunt but beautiful noises. I was 10 years old. I was hooked on all sorts of blues guitar sounds but this towering figure with his g…