Albert King - "As The Years Go Passing By" Live Sweden 1980

Albert King interview and playing "as The years go passing by", a tribute to the one and only king of blues

[@ladyjhuston]

Hello all, that's me, Lady "J" Huston, playing on Trumpet with the legendary Albert King in 1981.

[@skateluis13]

Thats fucking amazing !! Thanks for sharing that with us it must have been an awesome experience you will never forget ! Long live the Blues and Albert King ❤

[@mikehays3481]

The man played from the 50’s to the early 90’s, I was working in Memphis when he passed from a massive heart attack. What a unique guitar virtuoso

[@pretorious700]

Albert was a very underrated singer. He gives me chills.

[@AU-pu9vl]

Better than BB

[@timothylewis2450]

The velvet bulldozer 😊

[@blackxicano6123]

​@@AU-pu9vlI used to think that way, too, until I learned to appreciate all the Blues greats for their own unique styles and sounds.

[@lisaweaver986]

No, No sweetheart.This man built and so inspired musicians. Very to high as artist to others

[@colt49ers97]

​@AU-pu9vl no just as great as BB

[@stevetessier6568]

We were friends for a lot of years.Albert was like a beloved Uncle to me. One cold wintery night outside of Nightstage in Cambridge Mass.I crawled under the bus.To help Albert who was working on it. Slim, he said hey man you got a power lantern...And laughed.As I held the huge light.Yea boss I heard you called for illumination....!!!! That's nice Albert growled as the wind whipped at us.We buttoned up the problem.And Cleaned up our hands with mechanics waterless soap.And went into the club....All night we talked and laughed.And had a taste of 2 together. Albert was always the same.Very very kind to me. And a wonderful friend. His advice was always good. He was just like family to me. I miss him, deeply.I was blessed to call him friend. He was one of a kind.....!!!

[@nuzzy_futsacks6726]

Amazing story Steve, Albert is such an incredible guy im to young to have ever of met him but your story made me feel like I knew him aswell thank you for sharing

[@merkjanoosterhoff1590]

Nice story! Thanks for sharing it..

[@theemeraldfox7779]

Truly a legend and my all time favorite!

[@LinnVaveon]

♥ EPIC.

[@KarenVillanueva-i4j]

I loved him so much. His music dominated my life in the late sixties and seventies. I saw him at clubs in Toronto and he was such a big, warm presence and such a clean, playing guitarist and master of bending notes--what style and soul. So glad you had him as a friend ans have stories to tell. What a guitar player!!

[@waterwells7576]

There is nothing wrong with telling someone that your tired and need a rest . Thank you Albert for helping me realize that .

[@theodosios2615]

Touring constantly is not the easiest thing to do.

[@victorformosa228]

​@@theodosios2615 Amazing that he done it for so long, it's very tiring.

[@rvic11]

No exaggeration, he must have the most recognisable sound of any guitarist EVER. I'm a player myself, who love classical, blues, jazz and rock guitar...I never fail to hear that it's Albert playing.

[@kc7154]

rvic11 His sound comes from his fingers....doesn’t use a pick so he has a fat sound.

[@woodey028]

It's the space between the notes. Every not screams out. SRV lead me to Albert...

[@aaronbrown0417]

Bb Albert jimi and Santana i know IMMEDIATELY when I hear Em

[@tsuki586]

Hear layla from eric clapton.

[@steezymongo1270]

@@tsuki586 no

[@linos1987]

“I like playing for the kids and for the people that like to hear me playing. If they enjoy me playing, I enjoy playing” simplicity. Honesty.

[@bonniekertes8830]

My favorite song from Albert King. I know he says for lovers but a local blues band played this song for me when my dad passed.

[@bennyfromthe72]

Those bends are tearing my soul with joy.

[@rvz77]

They are tearing my soul. PERIOD

[@coriannm318]

Yup he was a power bender, amazing, deep raw emotion in each bend 😶😎🎶🎸🙏🏼

[@timothylewis2450]

Because of the way he taught himself, and the way the strings were upside down, he pulled his bends down instead of up.

[@PrincessSilverDawn]

This man has serious BLUES

[@dawgpost90]

The interactions with his drummer are priceless 😭

[@clap67]

He really mean it..when he says,"..those of you who wish to have someone to love..(pauses..)like me..I'm alone.."good God..the expression on his face..this man really knows what the blues is all about..

[@karlmoody4891]

He says..I'm a loner..:)

[@BluesHeavy]

No matter what style of music you want to play every guitar player should start by studing this Man. This song alone will teach you everything you need to know about playing guitar. 1. Tone 2. Patience (Less can be more) 3. Bending& Vibrato (Make it talk) 4. Playing with feel and feeling 5. Building emotion into your song bring the volume down and hammer it at just the right time and then back down again bring your audience into the song. 6lead the Band. streets smarts compared to book smarts.

[@nachyomoney3598]

I remember when I was teenager in the late 90s/ early 2000s, I discovered Albert King. I had idolized SRV since I was like 5 years old. Then I heard Albert King. It instantly clicked in my brain. This was SRV's source and wellspring of inspiration. It was like I had unlocked some kind of ancient knowledge. Nobody that I knew at school liked blues music, like I did. I was on an island and I thought I was the only person on Earth that was aware of this magical secret, because when I would try to talk to other kids about it they didn't care, lol. Still to this day I play Albert King records and learn his licks. He was a Jedi Master of the blues and SRV was his student from a far.

[@bloodyleech]

god................. the guitar cry's so beautifully....... fuck that tone......... I've watched about 20 times... and it never gets old

[@treygotbandzstreyway5736]

i grew up on this blues then i raised my children off this

[@britishfreeliberationparty5634]

so have I,my don loves albert

[@bluesatsunset]

R.I.P. Velvet Bulldozer. Albert King inspired so many artists including Stevie Ray Vaughan. For that alone, he deserves to go down in Blues history as a true legend.

[@ernestmartinez9071]

Any body that ever has sang in front of loud guitar amp and drumset and hears albert sing knows hes a top singer.

[@joebarriga-9945]

without the blues there would be no good music. no stones,no clapton, and not many others who have based their music as their own, their muse. this this blues is sweet love,and has saved many a poor soul.

[@merkjanoosterhoff1590]

So true!

[@Truthisspokenful]

His guitar licks are one of a kind..I love plenty of other blues guitar artists but Albert King's upside down strings, left handed lucy, is like a burning hot knife(the licks) through soft butter(my musical/emotional receptors of my brain)....just rips me a new one..like it was said, if you can't feel this you gotta hole in your soul...It usually takes quite a bit to make me "feel" let alone cry but this song, especially this version him being getting old,makes me wail like a baby. RIP true King

[@yeevvooihan]

Albert's vocal line at 1:48 ("there is nothing I can do") is where the famous lead guitar riff in "Layla" came from. Eric Clapton said in an interview that Duane Allman based the Layla riff on this vocal line, but twice as fast.

[@mossstephen1066]

Remarkable of that is true!

[@kc7154]

msteve - only one person alive today to say if it is true...if he said it I’d think it’d true....

[@chrismorgan7494]

I can definitely hear it. I totally believe it.

[@richardthompson3104]

@@kc7154 Bobby Whitlock is still with us isn't he?

[@jasonsmith902]

Which bit

[@cacadodo666]

Fucking hell. That outro. So hard to hold tears back. Shit.😞

[@Baby-zy8hb]

I Met Albert King when I was 15..I Love and Miss Him..He was a Gentleman and THat Guitar..

[@madmax8949]

If you don't dig the blues you got a hole in your soul. I'll be forever grateful that I got to see Albert twice, once in Little Rock at a small club and once at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas. He played on the back of a flatbed trailer and I've never seen anyone before or since who could seduce a crowd like The Velvet Bulldozer. R.I.P.

[@matthedlund502]

I'm so glad I got to see him perform live in the early '80s. When giants walked the earth!

[@jamiemcmillan6742]

Pure, raw emotion. Absolutely spellbinding.

[@MrCircus177]

The way the crowd started clapping on the off beat and he corrected them is so sick lol

[@jameslujack1717]

He is teaching the blues.

[@depretorevincenzo6617]

the godfather of the blues I was lucky to have met him his music touched my soul

[@barbarajames7747]

Albert King is one of the best blues singer I have ever heard. . Thank God for giving the world this great artist. May he RIP

[@dwightpatterson9477]

that brother could sang, and play the guitar.

[@darkmanillinois6975]

One of the best blues songs ever written. It speaks to your soul. God rest him. Just one of the all time best blues song.

[@timothylewis2450]

Agree. Gary Moore used to do a killer version, but Jeff Healey’s is my favorite. Fire! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXrOgJSKi9prq68

[@tippimail1]

Peppermint Harris wrote it-{"It is also credited to have been written by 'Deadric Malone' (a pseudonym of Don Robey), owner of Duke, which was a customary practice for some producers and label owners at that time".}Fenton Robinson recorded it in 1959-Fenton wrote Somebody Loan Me a Dime.

[@ribluesy]

Thanks, I always thought this was an Albert King song. I just listened to the Fenton Robinson version, both are excellent.

[@Freedom_Teachings]

I don't want too much out of life except I hope to one day love something in the same way as Albert loved his guitar Lucy.

[@rvz77]

That's asking for trouble. To love like that especially a woman is very dangerous. Itll destroy your life. Itll break your heart with no hope. It's better to have a woman love you like that and give your love to a guitar like Albert's Lucy.

[@loredanamassini9484]

Exactly dont waste your love on girls... Dream on my dear

[@alainguinot2595]

What a pitty he passed away at 69 he was extremely good and his guitar sound remains unmatched and will remain at it is .

[@zoetaviaoliver6512]

he's my favorite blues singer.

[@aakashmondal789]

KZbin recommending this on the first day of the year. Cheers everyone!

[@robertcapewell2788]

Albert King,one of the greatest Guitar players that ever lived, R.I.P.

[@nextelito]

...you can actually hear every emotion in every single notes, its amazing how this man can express so many things with six strings...

[@mariannerasmussen3003]

+eduardo arturo astudillo rodriguez its only 5, Albert never used the 6th, and rarely used the 5th

[@moonpie22399]

+Marianne Rasmussen That not true. He just didn't play it as often as most people. Take overall junction for example. Also when he outlines the key of the song, he plays the lower octaves of the key, so he uses the 6th.

[@LONELION17]

He is the real KING !!!

[@squierred]

Albert King is a Blues Legend! I love this clip with interview. It shows Albert's love of his trusty guitar. His vocals are smooth and his guitar justs cuts deep into ya! Blues music at it's finest!!!

[@barbarajames7747]

Albert, my love 💕 will follow you as the years go passing by. RIP.

[@jeffreycregg6078]

When Albert said he was tired pretty sure it was the understatement of the century. Once an act like his becomes popular ( hot) like his did, and others like it, all over the world, and US concert & venue promoters will practically fist fight to book it for their show which can run a guy ragged in only a couple of years! Touring is every Artists decision but the $ is so alluring to them it's difficult to turn it down.He probably had to beg borrow and steal ( demand ) his any chosen time off. If they could they have booked him 365 days a year until he died because the health of the human beings that are required to make a show are not their top priority. And from what I was told he huge in stature, could have a mean disposition when he wanted to but %99 of the time he WAS the nicest guy any one could ever meet. RIP Albert The Whole World Misses you especially the millions of budding blues guitarists and singers that followed you to learn from you, after you, and that still are today! CAN YOU HEAR UP THERE ALBERT? " I hope so"

[@marvinwhittaker3782]

Albert King,B B King, and Howlin Wolf were three great bluesmen

[@BackToTheBlues]

That's some wonderfully fiery playing at the end there!

[@myfeetapontheground]

he knows the blues like no one else.

[@swvastories3498]

Man! That guitar tone and that voice. I hated I never got to see him live.

[@dylanbishop4627]

The king!

[@woodey028]

its now part of who i am. One Love.

[@stephenharper2501]

The boss,! and gold standard of all blue's guitar players 💯🎶🎵

[@marymccaffrey9999]

I saw Him in Carnegie Hall in 968 , fell in love, and still get goosebumps when I hear him, my true love.

[@UsamaSaleem5050]

GREAT ALBERT KING ....

[@morgan2205]

Albert....royalty

[@mikehays3481]

Most incredible Blues man I’ve ever seen period.

[@KingPeanutAndTaz]

can bring a man to tears.

[@themusicdr]

cry guitar cry. damn albert 'king' really was just that!

[@crankyfrankification]

my favorite King... no disrespect to BB...but Albert is the king

[@snappypappy100]

GOAT

[@jenspett]

Everytime i watch this im amazed .... the end is so dang perfekt

[@lisaweaver986]

You people to future musicians do not recognize just how the blues actually created the axis of music today. Huge!

[@lisaweaver986]

To the biggie in times in an artists world. Rolling out daily. Lower levels today to that ocean of fishes. We shall never see such a waves

[@daveshondel5108]

he came back home here in Memphis and took a long break...... He was packed and ready to go back to work. He was tending his nice vegetable garden at his place......and his heart ❤️ gave out. Rest In Sublime Peace King Albert!

[@francfroma688]

Praise god for such a tone that touches chords deep in the soul....he is a master at touching those inner tones.

[@lightninboy1979]

Love how he yells at his band during the first few bars! Dude be like come on! Wake the fuck up!

[@mrstanbmw]

lightninboy1979 Albert was notorius for calling out the band and especially the sound man and I knew people who knew him and the word was that Albert was an ass kicker on and off the stage but at the same time a very sweet man, he just didn't play

[@marlon1171]

He truly gave himself completely, heart mind and soul for his audience and his music! Albert king was truly unique and the tone of that v guitar was incredible and he played it clean, no effects, nothing but his amazing voice and thoses huge paws on thoses strings. Ripeace Albert king.

[@mantrarock99]

The blues in the pure state ... bless from Argentina

[@JPTyler]

The voice he has....Fantastic!

[@Roge_TV]

The Notorious BIG of the Blues

[@angelo2629]

I walked into work one morning and found a very large gentleman occupying my chair and refusing to move. It was of course-Albert. He and my boss grew up together in Mississippi. God bless both.

[@darkmanillinois6975]

What a soul, thank you god for this soul. Thank him for everything he went through he will never know how much he meant to so many. God bless him and keep him close, see you on the other side.

[@dustintroisi7401]

I absolutely love how they cut the first solo out... that's very good video editing

[@icemcmike]

Albert King... The King!

[@cuauhtemocmorisco3493]

Mr. King could give you something special in his tone but then again youd have to come back to feel it again. The man had the Blue's past the soul and more! Thanks Mr. King!

[@jayt.1163]

What an absolute legend. Those bends near the end are a powerful

[@coriannm318]

Amen

[@EPurpl3]

i just saw bb king at montreal in 93 and i can say that albert is the king.

[@darkmanillinois6975]

A true, underrated, blues god, just saying

[@woozawozzle]

He sounds like such a genuine and humble guy

[@staxmantim]

YEAH! Everybody say yeah! Greatest Blues guitarist of all time!!!!

[@Mortslake]

another note: listen to the voice..i just love it. that sullen vibrato gets right into my spine..but hey! thats me ;)

[@tuslachiefsfan8012]

One of the few with as distinctive voice with the guitar and his singing. Just amazing

[@1moomed23]

OMG everytime i watch this i get chills down my spines

[@BRaNSHAVIA]

NEVER SEEN ANYBODY PLAY A GUITAR LIKE THAT,MYYYY GOD

[@tarikb.2201]

Wish I had the chance to meet him when he was living. He is the greatest in blues. Hear his music all the time. Mr King, I love you, thanks for what you did for music.

[@LONELION17]

The Blues,the real Blues,the most soulfull music ever....if you never played the blues from the heart,you can't play nothing...

[@BluesHeavy]

The thing that kills me is there isn't enough Albert King Video's and there is so many tune you never get to see live. I love Born under a Bad sign but it isn't his best. I would love to see an entire King concert in all its glory and from the 60's at his prime.

[@SarasotaSlim]

Saw him open for BB at Tampa Theater not long before he left us. Had seen BB many times by then and never had a chance to hear Albert in person. By far one of the best blues shows I've ever seen.

[@lisaweaver986]

This man has inspired so many as a prolific used to his to them as artists. A what music is inspirational and always shall be. That's alright ❤.

[@timkjazz]

So great he brings shivers to my flesh.

[@gordonlewis4280]

Because you understand true art and culture baby many people dont understand this at your level to understand life the blues is 400 years of pain that are hidden in those notes many can copy the blues but albert is the blues to listen to this says alot about you stay involved

[@MrDallman]

When this gentleman plays the blues the world stands still for me...IMHO the finest of the finest. So much soul and rich emotion tinged with a unique rawness to his playing. You can just see where Jimi, Stevie and Rory and so many others got their leads from. Not sure we will ever see the likes of AK again. Rest easy big man.

[@sijuirl]

What a down to earth man...and how simple hes explaining his passion for lucy like a child....legend...

[@lisaweaver986]

Oppression is what music was birth from. All the way back to the pilgrims landing. They came as from born as runners .it's so all to all generations. Bittersweet. God has His plan. Amen❤.

[@RandyReiss]

This is the First Time I cried in a Long Time, His Sound Will Ring on Forever in my Ears!!!!!Albert is my Mentor and I will Represent that Style till The Day I die,Cheers to the Lefty Upside Down GOD of the Blues,The One The Only Legend Albert King! I miss You and I Know You are ridin with me!!!!!!!#1 in my Heart,Thank You for inspiring me King

[@lowrencemayfield4271]

The one and only king among the three

[@SoftwareCollection]

please name the three!

[@lowrencemayfield4271]

Shubham Gaikwad That's easy, Freddie, B.B, and Albert, of course i love the other two but Albert for me is the King

[@SoftwareCollection]

lowrence mayfield Yeah, I guessed it right then! And yeah, Albert is my favorite too. Almost all of his songs are the same, but I still never get tired of hearing them over and over. The same licks but I love them every time. Damn, if that ain't magic, I don't know what is!

[@angelmedium4104]

@@lowrencemayfield4271 bb dude live in Montreal 93

[@FORTYSIXANPRETTY]

WOW!!! THE LEGEND -"I'M GONNA LEAVE IT UP TO YOU, SO LONG, SO LONG, GOOD BYE, MY LOVE WILL FOLLOW YOU AS THE YEARS GO PASSING BY" THIS IS TOO COLD RIGHT HERE~~~ I LOVE YOU ALBERT KING~~PLAY BABY KISS ~ BIG KISSES TO YOU MY LOVE~~~"AS THE YEARS GO PASSING BY" CONNIE~~~

[@AndrewVOdom]

They broke the mold...! RIP, Mr. King...honored to have shook your hand...

[@LostSoulAscension]

graciously humbling

[@Phubby]

I’m finally starting to get it it’s more the flow than the notes that gives him that style

[@nubiananthology]

Pure Fire .!

[@FULLmeltHASH]

I have this dvd, live in Sweden, I love it

[@klasek]

The massive guitar sound of Albert King comes shining through! Albert was the king!

[@michavandam]

Oh man, when he finally let's it rip loose near the end...!

[@MrCfralick]

Well stated! All modern music genres owe a thanks to the early blues and jazz men. Without them, who knows where the hell we'd be now.

[@elvis162]

he is a legend of blues, i miss you Albert

[@yestoES355]

Damn his voice is so damn smooth. All he has to do it talk and he’s singing already. That guitar tone is godly as well