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Lowell Fulson

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Lowell Fulson was revered by B.B. King as a "sleeping giant. Lowell Fulson's second Kent album, released in 1967, is his masterpiece and a brilliant masterpiece in the history of the blues. The title song was a big hit, reaching No. 5 on the R&B charts in 1966. The cover by Otis Redding & Carla Thomas (1967) was also a hit, and it became the "original funk blues" that has been the subject of sampling since the 1980s. Originally, 11 songs from the "Tramp" session in 1966 were recorded for the purpose of making an album, plus "Black Nights," a masterpiece of slow blues with a profound sound and a voice filled with immeasurable depth that creates an ineffable lyricism, for a total of 12 tracks, which were re-recorded from "Soul" (1966). The title track, the cool and hot "Two Way Wishing," the salty "Hustler's Game," and many more are all reissued in rare mono (KLMP 5020).