29/02/2024

B.B. King "Take It Home" (1979) -Blues / Soul Blues / Jazz Funk-



Label : MCA Records


États-Unis Side One

01 - Better Not Look Down (Joe Sample & Will Jennings)
02 - Same Old Story (Same Old Song) (Joe Sample & Will Jennings)
03 - Happy Birthday Blues (Joe Sample & Will Jennings)
04 - I've Always Been Lonely (Joe Sample & Will Jennings)

Side Two

01 - Second Hand Woman (Joe Sample & Will Jennings)
02 - Tonight I'm Gonna Make You A Star (Will Jennings & B.B. King)
03 - The Beginning Of The End (Will Jennings & B.B. King)
04 - A Story Everybody Knows ('Stix' Hooper & Will Jennings)
05 - Take It Home (Wilton Felder & Will Jennings)


Produced by Stewart Levine for Outside Productions & Wilton Felder, 'Stix' Hooper & Joe Sample for Crusaders Productions, Inc.
Engineered & Mixed by Rik Pekkonen
Mastered at A&M Studios by Bernie Grundman
Production Coordinator : Pamela Hope Lobue

Players :
B.B. King : Guitar
Dean Parks : Guitar
Paul Jackson Jr. : Guitar
Wilton Felder : Bass, Sax Solo on "Take It Home"
Joe Sample : Keyboards
'Stix' Hooper : Drums & Percussion (all except "Happy Birthday Blues", "I've Always Been Lonely" & "Tonight I'm Gonna Make You A Star")
James Gadson : Drums & Percussion on "Happy Birthday Blues", "I've Always Been Lonely" & "Tonight I'm Gonna Make You A Star"
Paulinho Da Costa : Percussion on "Take It Home", "Better Not Look Down" & "Same Old Story (Same Old Song)"

Horns :
Steve Madaio : Trumpet
Gary Grant : Trumpet
Dennis Quitman : Sax
Larry Williams : Sax
Kim Hutchcroft : Baritone Sax
Jack Redmond : Trombone
Chuck Findley : Trombone
Horns : All Cuts except "Tonight I'm Gonna Make You A Star", "A Story Everybody Knows" & "Take It Home"

Background vocals : Julia Tillman Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Luther Waters, Oren Waters
Background vocals : All Cuts except " I've Always Been Lonely", "Tonight I'm Gonna Make You A Star", "A Story Everybody Knows"