Product Details
- Audio CD (January 12, 2011)
- Remastered from original
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Geffen
Completely Well is a 1969 studio album by blues guitarist B. B. King. It is notable for the inclusion of "The Thrill Is Gone," which became a hit on both the pop and the RB charts. This album was released in the US as an LP record in 1969 and as a CD in 1987 in the UK only as an LP.
One of B.B. King's first pop-inclined efforts, this CD features the support of rock- and blues-raised session players. King's progeny, in a sense. Keyboardist Al Kooper is the most notable, but it's guitarist Hugh McCracken who engages the master in a six-string duel on the jam "Cryin' Won't Help You Now/You're Mean." The album also contains King's breakthrough hit "The Thrill Is Gone." King didn't particularly enjoy the tune when he recorded it. But when he returned to the studio the next day to hear the strings that were added to sweeten its chorus in his absence, he was as taken by the transcendent, majestic sweep they lent his performance as the rest of the world was soon to be. Indeed, his visceral vocal and stinging guitar leads define the bittersweet aftertaste of lost love. While the sheen of the hit's production stands out among this album's cuts, the unvarnished emotion of its lyrics is what the blues is all about. --Ted Drozdowski
Track Listing
- 1. So Excited
- 2. No Good
- 3. You're Losin' Me
- 4. What Happened
- 5. Confessin' The Blues
- 6. Key To My Kingdom
- 7. Cryin' Won't Help You Now
- 8. You're Mean
- 9. The Thrill Is Gone
