Live in Cook County Jail
The stockade show opener "Every Day I Have the Blues" is tossed off so quickly that King gives the impression he wants to be elsewhere (can't blame him). But on this summer day in 1971 his heart goes out to 2,000 inmates, and he takes his time offering the sublimated "How Blues Can You Get," the ever- forceful "The Thrill Is Gone," a medley combining his first hit, "Three O'Clock Blues," "Darlin' You Know I Love You," and three more effusions of hopefulness. He bends vibrato- drenched notes out of Lucille with all the attention to rhythm and melody expected of a master-- © Frank John Hadley 1993--From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD