#16: Live at the Regal — B.B. King (1965)
Universally revered by musicologists as the most important and influential live blues album ever cut, this Chicago performance captures King in an absolute, fluid dialogue with his highly vocal audience. His legendary Gibson guitar, Lucille, responds to his rich vocal phrases with an expressive, crying string-bending technique that single-handedly established the blueprint for modern electric guitar soloing. Every subsequent rock guitarist has spent decades studying this tracking.
