Albert Watson

Albert Collins, "The Master of the Telecaster," "The Iceman," and "The Razor Blade" was robbed of his best years as a blues performer by a bout with liver cancer that ended with his premature death on November 24, 1993. He was just 61 years old. The highly influential, totally original Collins, like the late John Campbell, was on the cusp of a much wider worldwide following via his deal with Virgin Records' Pointblank subsidiary. However, unlike Campbell, Collins had performed for many more years, in obscurity, before finally finding a following in the mid-'80s.

Collins is never far in spirit from the 1940s and 1950s gin mills of his youth, where he soaked up blues, R&B, country and western, jazz, and all their various amalgams. On this 1983 date he impressively revitalizes his old Texas hit "Don't Lose Your Cool," turns the heat up on Guitar Slim's "Quicksand," and adds newfangled vocal and guitar insinuations to Big Walter Price's "Get to Gettin'."

Albert King, Chico Hamilton & Little Milton - Montreux Festival (1974) {Stax ‎SCD-4132-2 rel 1991}
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© 1974, 1991 Stax ‎Records / Fantasy | SCD-4132-2
Jazz / Blues / Modern Electric Blues / Soul-Blues

This is not a long album. Little Milton takes up less than 10 minutes of it in his two songs (Let Me Down Easy, We're Gonna Make It). Chico gets a single cut, the first cut "In View" (12:20), in which he smokes - a nice opening to the show. The last 3 songs are King in fine form in this vintage 1973 show at Montreux - could have offered us more, but it's better than nothing.