Albert King
1968 was a momentous year for the nation, the city of Memphis, and Stax Records
Rhino Entertainment celebrates the 60th anniversary of Stax with a budget-friendly series of compilations and reissues
All of the Kings of the blues guitar are gone now. We lost Freddie King back in 1976, and then Albert King in 1992. The most renowned member of this…
A new collection celebrates the resurgence of a legendary soul label
Shirley Brown scored big but it was too late for Stax
Ann Peebles was one of the great deep soul singers of the ’70s
William Bell was one of the pioneers of the Stax sound
Imagine a year when the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame nominees are announced and everyone shut up? Well, that’ll never happen, but most people seem fairly cool with this year’s inducted artists, who were announced by Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers at a press conference yesterday. Let’s take a quick look at this year’s nominees-who will officially be inducted next spring. Albert King: One of two posthumous honorees (he died in ’92,) blues guitarist King didn’t have […]
We made a list of our favorite guitarists of all time, and this week, we count down from 35 to 21. Did your favorite make the list?
Rob Smith provides some soulful sides to get us through winter’s last throes, in this week’s Popdose.com Friday Mixtape.
He may have been born under a bad sign, but this week, Albert King gets his due as Mojo Flucke looks back on the life and times of the guitar giant with the Web’s bluesiest pencast.
One of the many things I love about Popdose is our collective freedom to write different kinds of posts: Sometimes you gets yourself a Cold Shot related to some bit…