Midnight Believer/Take It Home

These 2 albums marked a departure for BB, from pure blues to a more soft-rock/disco/R and B style sound. I hadn't realised that was the case until I read the liner notes. They were both good, certainly different given BB's usual passionate blues and the albums are worthy enough to add to the collection. Some good songs on them however, for me, I do prefer BB and his band just playing raw, passionate blues. But, like most great artists, if you don't veer of course and try something different....

exell.

Some great tunes on here, my favourite BB album

great album

I've owned Midnight Believer since the mid 1980s on vinyl. It is without doubt one of the greatest records of all time. If you like BB King already, or just the Blues in general, then check out this album. It's a true masterpiece. When I first got this record I played it to everyone I knew and they all loved it, even those who weren't big blues fans.It has a much smoother, fuller sound than early BB King, along with great production and terrific songs. Highly recommended.I don't know the second album which is part of this package, but I'm about to buy it so that I have a good CD version of Midnight Believer.

This is quite a good value collection of two original BB King albums made with the Crusaders in 1978 and 79. Both are surprisingly short, just over half an hour each, so they fit comfortably on one CD. Midnight Believer is by far the better of the two original albums - it is great all the way through, whereas Take it home has few memorable tracks and generally seems to lack the inspiration of its predecessor. However, to be fair some of the tracks on Take it home do grow on the listener if you persevere with them. The main gripe with this CD is that the albums have not been digitally remastered and sound rather dull and flat. This is very evident if you compare this CD with the two tracks from them which appear on the remastered BB King Definite Greatest Hits album.

these 2 albums were recorded with the crusaders in the 70's, but unfortunately despite the quality supporting cast it comes off as a poor, cheesy 70's album. The reason is that the Crusaders weren't just BB's backing band. They wrote the songs also. As a result the album dosn't sound right. The songs that were written don't really feel like BB King. Not only that, they sound more like Crusaders albums on which BB is guesting. The Crusaders are too much to the fore in the mix. Lucille sounds thin ( I mean how do you manage that) BB's voice lacks warmth and power. Mostly the lyrics lack BB's wit and they are too blatant. If you want a classic BB studio album Indianola Missippi Seeds is the one to go for