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Friends (B. B. King album)

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Friends
Studio album by
Released1974
StudioSigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
GenreBlues
Length29:06
LabelABC
ProducerDave Crawford
B. B. King chronology
To Know You Is to Love You
(1973)
Friends
(1974)
Together for the First Time... Live
(1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideC[2]

Friends is a studio album by B. B. King, released by ABC Records in 1974.[1] It was available in stereo under the reference ABCD-825 and in quadraphonic sound under the reference CQD-40022. This album maintains the sentimental mood initiated in the previous album To Know You Is to Love You recorded in the same studio by the same producer.[3]

Track listing

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Details are from the original 1974 vinyl LP.

Side A
  1. "Friends" (Dave Crawford, Charles Mann, Will Boulware) – 4:44
  2. "I Got Them Blues" (Dave Crawford, Deryll Inman) – 4:31
  3. "Baby I'm Yours" (Van McCoy) – 3:28
  4. "Up At 5 AM" (Dave Crawford) – 3:15
Side B
  1. "Philadelphia" (Dave Crawford) – 6:03
  2. "When Everything Else Is Gone" (Will Boulware) – 3:08
  3. "My Song" (Dave Crawford, Charles Mann) – 3:57

Personnel

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Musical
Technical

References

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  1. ^ a b "Friends – B.B. King | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: K". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  3. ^ Danchin, Sebastian (1998). Blues Boy – The Life and Music of B. B. King. University Press of Mississippi. p. 85. ISBN 1-57806-017-6.