Born Under a Bad Sign

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Born Under a Bad Sign is a studio album by the American blues musician Albert King. It is considered groundbreaking for the genre and influenced blues-rock musicians such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. It sold in the U.S. alone approximately 500,000 times. The music magazine Rolling Stone leads it to number 491 to its list of the 500 best albums of all time.

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In 1966, King signed a recording contract with Stax Records. It took place between March 1966 and June 1967, a series of singles, including Laundromat Blues, Crosscut Saw and Born Under a Bad Sign, which could be placed in the upper middle of the rhythm-and - blues singles charts. King was assisted in the recordings of the band Booker T. & the MG's, which was considered at the time as the house band of Stax Records label and was responsible for the rhythmic and melodic accompaniment of the pieces. Was also accompanied King of the Memphis Horns, a brass section, which acted for Stax Records as a companion volume.

In August 1967 this single recordings were released under the title Born Under a Bad Sign as a studio album. It also successfully entered the album charts not know what is attributed to the fact that until the 1970s into the record market was dominated in this genre of singles. The title track is a particularly influential. The Blue Ballad wrote Booker T. Jones and William Bell. The idea was Bell, who wanted to write a song about Blue astrology. The main riff of the piece was created by chance. In keeping with the astrological background of the title song shows the record covers various symbols from the superstitions as the Calendar page of a Friday, the 13th, a black cat and a skull.

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Despite the lack of chart success, the album is one of the classics of blues-rock and is referred to as the first Electric Blues album. The magazine Guitar World wrote that King connect its heavily distorted blues-rock riffs with the funky rhythms of the backing on natural and organic way on the album. The Billboard Magazine described it in a contemporary concert review pieces like Crosscut Saw, Kansas City and Pretty Woman as a definitive blues standards. The Rolling Stone writes that King next to blues fans could also gain listeners from the field of rock ' n ' roll with this album.

Shortly after its release turned out to be the album for the young British blues and blues-rock bands of the 1960s as a treasure trove: Sun, found himself in the same year Oh, Pretty Woman on John Mayall LP Crusade ( with Mick Taylor on lead guitar ), Free played a rocking version of The Hunter a for their debut album Tons of Sobs (1968) and Cream who covered the title track on their double album Wheels of Fire ( 1968). And twenty years later did a new generation of white blues guitarists to appreciate the songs on the album, such as Robben Ford, who received in 1988 for his album Talk To Your Daughter also Born Under A Bad Sign, or Gary Moore, the two-year on his album Still Got the Blues ( 1990) opened with a well-rehearsed together with king version of Oh, Pretty Woman, as another title that carried as The Years Go Passing By coverte and king also with his ballad King of the Blues put a musical monument.

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