For more than half a century, B. B. King defined the blues for a worldwide audience. Since he started recording in the1940s, he released over fifty albums, many of them classics. This edition contains one of B.B. Kings finest albums, the masterpiece King of the Blues, originally issued around May 1960 by the Crown imprint. His modern style, which combined rock & roll and R&B with the jump blues, is fully developed here, and his consistency from track to track is remarkable.