Albert King – A “King of the Blues”
Albert King “The Velvet Bulldozer” (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992)
On April 25th in 1923, alphabetically the first of the “Three Kings” of Blues Albert King was born. Albert had a major impact on the blues and rock music. On December 11th, 2012, it was announced that King would be posthumously inducted into the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I was never a big Abert King fan in the 70s or 80s. It has only been in the last several years that I really became aware of his impact on blues and rock music. I think that he gets lost in the shadow of B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. And that is kind’a hard when you’re big as he was! From Wikipedia: