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Christgau's Record GuideB+[1]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

Lucille Talks Back is an album by B. B. King, released in 1975.[2] B.B. King produced it himself and recorded it with his own orchestra. It is not to be confused with a compilation of the same name, released in 1988.

The album was out of print until it was re-released as a bonus disc as part of the iTunes edition of the 2012 box set Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. B. B. King.

Track listing

Side A
  1. "Lucille Talks Back (Copulation)" [ Instr. ] (B.B.King) - 2:25
  2. "Breaking Up Somebody's Home" (Al Jackson, Jr., Timothy Matthews) -- 2:58
  3. "Reconsider Baby" (Lowell Fulson) - 2:53
  4. "Don't Make Me Pay For His Mistakes" (Bobby Lexing, Miles Grayson) - 3:15
Side B
  1. "When I'm Wrong" (B. B. King) - 6:11
  2. "I Know The Price" (B. B. King) -- 3:06
  3. "Have Faith" (Shirrell Sutton)- 2:36
  4. "Everybody Lies A Little" (Jackson, King) -- 3:43

Personnel

  • B.B. King - guitar, vocals
  • Jesse Daniel Houck, Milton Hopkins - rhythm guitar
  • Rudy Aikels - bass guitar
  • Ron Levy - piano, synthesizer
  • James Toney - Hammond organ
  • John "Jabo" Starks - drums
  • Marcus Barnett - percussion
  • Bobby Forte - tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
  • Cato Walker III - alto saxophone
  • Herbert Hardisty - tenor saxophone, trumpet
  • Eddie Rowe - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Joseph Burton - trombone
  • B. B. King, Eddie Rowe, Hampton Reese - arrangements
Technical
  • Tom Wilkes - art direction
  • Martin Donald - design
  • Jim McCrary - photography

References

  1. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: K". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 28, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  2. ^ a b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 631.
  3. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 395.


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