B.B. KingBest B.B. King Albums Ranked
8.0
Avg Score
25
Opinions
39
Albums
6
Reviewers
Summary from 25 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated B.B. King’s catalog across 39 albums from 25 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated B.B. King album is Live In Cook County Jail (1970) with a 9.1/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Lucille and Greatest Hits. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1955 to 2024. The Thrill Is Gone ranks as the highest-rated B.B. King song on Rate.fm with a 9.7/10 average.
Greatest Hits
“In 1969, after twenty years of making records, singer-guitarist B.B. King — a tractor driver’s son, born into the crushing poverty and labor of sharecropping life in Itta Bena, Mississippi — achieved household-name fame with the howling despair and stinging guitar of his Top Twenty pop single "The Thrill Is Gone." But the forty recordings […]”
One Kind Favor
“This isn’t just B.B. King’s best album in years, it’s one of the strongest studio sets of his career, standing alongside classics such as Singin’ the Blues and Lucille. Where those early titles highlighted his youthful, wailing vocals and stinging guitar, this one plays to King’s current strengths: the tear-stained vibrato of his mature voice, […]”
Makin Love Is Good for You (Expanded Edition)
“When Eric Clapton and B.B. King first traded guitar licks, onstage during a King engagement at the Cafe Au Go Go in Manhattan in late 1967, Clapton was twenty-two, a member of Cream and already God, according to London graffiti of the time. But King, belatedly making his debut at a white New York club […]”