Blue Horizon B.B. 2

Now that I find the B.B. King Story Chapter Two, BH 7-63226, I see that there are fuller session notes, ones that include volume one. Even the vocalists receive credit. The producer for these sessions was Joe Bihari. In fact, the liner notes say: "Chapter One . . . was intended to serve as a basis for further releases in the series. For this reason, little attention was paid to discographical or biographical data." The publishing credits are varied this time around. The first album is from the early 'fifties on to the middle of the decade for the most part; the tracks on this album date from 1960 and 1961. Volume two has never received as much play as volume one. But now, except for Sneakin' Around, for the most part I enjoy this album more. At times it's very jazzy, with sheets of sound. One of the tracks is a Lousiana-style rhumba and Clarence "Frogman" Henry probably used it for the Frog song (or B.B. King used Clarence Henry's song). This is not daytime music, any of it.