Albert King
King Does King's Things

It’s amazing that here we are, a decade into Sony’s Essential series, which has given us (sometimes overly) exhaustive compilations of seemingly every...

Browse through any music fan's collection, and chances are good he or she owns a copy of Carole King's Tapestry. That album kicked off the singer-son...

The penultimate track of I Was A King's eponymous second album is the slightest play on words imaginable. Having spent the previous twelve songs poin...

Imagine being in the lucky shoes of Frode Stromstad. You’ve more ideas than you know what to do with, are on jamming terms with Sufjan Stevens and hav...

Apart from the connections made to similar bands around at the inception of Teenage Fanclub, namely Dinosaur Jnr, Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine,...

Norwegian four-piece I Was A King’s debut album is littered with twinkling hook-laden nuggets that fuzz and fizzle with more than a nod to gaze-reviva...

Whether you choose to blame King Crimson for creatingprogressive rock, or rejoice in the genre's pervasive instrumental virtuosity,there can be no arg...

For better or for worse, a pretty decent argument can be mounted that progressive rock — or "prog" as we know it today — was bor...

Eric Clapton plus B.B. King equaled an outstanding blues album. Many people agreed with that assessment as Riding With The King reached double platinu...

In October 1969 five unknowns produced one of the most striking debuts in rock history. Its mix of brooding Wagnerian angst and whizz-bang virtuosity ...