Lovejoy (album)

1971 studio album by Albert King

Lovejoy

Studio album by

Albert King

Released

July 1971

Recorded

December 1970 – January 1971

Studio

Skyhill Studios, Hollywood Hills, California
Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama^[1]

Genre

Blues

Length

36:23

Label

Stax^[2]

Producer

Don Nix

Albert King chronology

Blues for Elvis – King Does the King's Things
(1970)

Lovejoy
(1971)

I'll Play the Blues for You
(1972)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	^[4]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings	^[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[6]

Lovejoy is a studio album by Albert King, released in 1971.^[7]

The album peaked at No. 188 on the Billboard 200.^[8]

Production

The album was produced by Don Nix, who also penned some of the songs.^[9] "Lovejoy, Ill." is about Brooklyn, Illinois, which is nicknamed Lovejoy, after Elijah P. Lovejoy.^[10] King got his start in Lovejoy.

Track listing

"Honky Tonk Woman" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:59
"Bay Area Blues" (Donald "Duck" Dunn, Don Nix) – 2:55
"Corrina, Corrina" (Don Nix) – 3:45
"She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)" (Taj Mahal, James Rachell) – 3:56
"For the Love of a Woman" (Don Nix) – 4:20
"Lovejoy, III." (Don Nix) – 3:46
"Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" (Don Nix) – 4:20
"Going Back to Iuka" (Don Nix) – 3:58
"Like a Road Leading Home" (Don Nix, Dan Penn) – 5:24

Personnel

Albert King – electric guitar, vocals
Jesse Ed Davis – guitar
Tippy Armstrong – guitar
Wayne Perkins – guitar
John Gallie – keyboards
Barry Beckett – keyboards
Donald Dunn – bass guitar
David Hood – bass guitar
Jim Keltner – drums
Roger Hawkins – drums
Sandy Konikoff – percussion
Jeanie Green – backing vocals
The Mount Zion Singers – backing vocals

Technical

Larry Hamby, Marlin Greene, Peter Nicholls, Steve Smith - engineer
John Fry - remix engineer
Joel Brodsky - photography

References

^ Whitley, Carla Jean (July 22, 2014). "Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music". Arcadia Publishing – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 841.
^ Koda, Cub. Lovejoy at AllMusic
^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 630.
^ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-140-51384-4.
^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 394.
^ "Albert King | Biography & History". AllMusic.
^ "Albert King". Billboard.
^ Tersch, Gary Von (September 30, 1971). "Lovejoy". Rolling Stone.
^ "The 100 Greatest St. Louis Songs". Riverfront Times.