Lucille Talks Back

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{{Infobox album

| name = Lucille Talks Back

| type = Studio album

| artist = B. B. King

| cover = Lucille Talks Back cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1975

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Blues

| length = 42:20

| label = ABC

| producer = B. B. King

| prev_title = Together for the First Time

| prev_year = 1974

| next_title = Bobby Bland and B.B. King Together Again...Live

| next_year = 1976

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev1Score = B+{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: K|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=K&bk=70|accessdate=February 28, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}

|rev3 = MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide

|rev3score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=631}}

|rev4 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=395}}

}}

Lucille Talks Back is an album by B. B. King, released in 1975. 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)" [instrumental] (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

{{B.B. King}}

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Category:B. B. King albums

Category:1975 albums

Category:ABC Records albums

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