For the guitarist who reshaped the electric blues with a left-handed Flying V and a tone that nobody before or since has quite matched, this page collects Albert King vinyl records and CDs across five decades of studio and live recordings.
The catalog here runs from cornerstones to deep cuts. Born Under a Bad Sign is available as a 180-gram vinyl LP on Craft Recordings and as a CD from the same label. Albert Live arrives as a colored vinyl 2xLP remastered reissue. New Orleans Heat is here on a UK vinyl LP from Charly. On the CD side, Live Fabulous Forum 1972 and Live In The 70s both document King on stage, while I'll Play The Blues For You on Fantasy Records, Bad Luck Blues and Bad Luck Blues: The Parrot Sessions on Essential Media Group, Talkin Blues on Thirsty Ear, and Legendary Bop Rhythm and Blues Classics round out the studio and archival side of the collection. Eleven titles in total, spanning Stax-era studio work, live documents, and early recordings.
Why buy from Relix
Relix has covered the blues, its offshoots, and the artists who carry it forward since 1974. That long view shapes what ends up in the store. We stock the Relix Sessions series, live recordings produced by Relix and pressed to vinyl on the Relix Vinyl label, alongside titles from Craft Recordings, Fantasy, Rockbeat, and the other labels keeping the catalog alive. The Albert King titles here were chosen because they represent the range of his recorded work, not because they were easy to source.
Every record and CD in this collection is new and sealed. Pre-order titles display a street date and ship when the label releases them. CDs ship in protective packaging.
If this page opened a door, there is more to explore. The Blues Vinyl Records collection covers King's peers and the wider tradition. Live Vinyl Albums and Records is the place for concert documents pressed to wax. And Colored Vinyl Records and Limited Variants includes the colored pressing of Albert Live alongside limited variants from across the catalog.