Midnight Believer | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1978 | |||
Genre | Blues | |||
Length | 33:19 | |||
Label | ABC Records | |||
Producer | Stewart Levine | |||
B. B. King chronology | ||||
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Midnight Believer is an album by the American musician B.B. King, released in 1978 on ABC Records. [1] The album reached No. 27 on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart. [2] [3]
Midnight Believer was produced by Stewart Levine. Artists including Roland Bautista and the Crusaders appeared on the album. [3]
A song from the album called "Never Make A Move Too Soon" reached No. 19 on the Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart. [4]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [5] |
Christgau's Record Guide | B [6] |
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings | [7] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [8] |
The Bay State Banner wrote that "the music he relies on is updated, synthesized, stringed mood ring music that's so today it stings; but King finds a way to act cool, undoing thirty years of gospel blues." [9] In 2006, the Liverpool Echo said that, "backed by the jazz-funk of the Crusaders, [King] became an alchemist and turned the beautifully-crafted songs of Will Jennings into blues nuggets with the most heartfelt singing." [10]
All tracks by Will Jennings and Joe Sample, except where noted.