This week’s big new album releases include a pair of big comebacks lead by B.B. King’s One Kind Favor, the finest album from the blues icon in decades. The T-Bone Burnett-produced album features King’s own versions of blues classics. Mark Kemp says “King is heartbreakingly intimate on standards like Blind Lemon Jefferson’s ‘See That My Grave Is Kept Clean’ and John Lee Hooker’s ‘Blues Before Sunrise.’” Click below for the rest of the review of One Kind Favor, as well as reviews of the Verve’s reunion album Forth, the latest from Solange Knowles and the Mott the Hoople/Ian Hunter anthology Old Records Never Die.
• Review: B.B. King, One Kind Favor (4 stars)
• Review: The Verve, Forth (4 stars)
• Review: Solange Knowles, Sol-Angel & The Hadley St. Dreams (2.5 stars)
• Review: Mott the Hoople/Ian Hunter, Old Records Never Die (3 stars)
