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- Artist: Albert King
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- Release Date: August 10, 2004
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Blues
Review
A misleadingly titled budget-priced album, The Best of Albert King: Stormy Monday Blues, Chicago 1978 is a medium-quality (at best) recording of a club show from the waning days of King's career. That said, it's not entirely useless. In 1978, after a decade or so spent flirting with the pop music mainstream in an increasingly unsatisfying way, King signed with the tiny Tomato Records label and reapplied himself to the electric Chicago-style blues that had originally made his name. There is no misguided blues-rock on The Best of Albert King: Stormy Monday Blues, Chicago 1978, just a lengthy ten-song set that reaffirms King's inimitable playing. The three songs that creep up around the ten-minute mark, particularly a somewhat leaden take on "Please Come Back to Me," will likely seem ploddingly overblown to all but the most ardent Chicago blues guitar fans. However, on more concise tracks like a fiery take on his signature song, "Born Under a Bad Sign," King's unique tone and always tasteful, economical solos show that he still had much to offer. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| King's Bounce [Instrumental] | Albert King | (3:30) | |
| Stormy Monday Blues | Albert King | (9:30) | |
| Born Under a Bad Sign (Lyrics) | William Bell | Albert King | (5:30) |
| The Very Thought of You | Albert King | (4:34) | |
| You're My Woman, I'm Your Man | Albert King | (4:25) | |
| Tired as a Man Can Be | Albert King | (6:23) | |
| Blues at Sunrise | Albert King | (10:16) | |
| Breakin' Up Somebody's Home | Albert King | (5:19) | |
| Please Come Back to Me | Albert King | (11:08) | |
| I'll Play the Blues for You (Lyrics) | Albert King | (4:21) |
