{"product_id":"born-under-a-bad-sign-mono","title":"Born Under A Bad Sign","description":"\u003cp\u003eAny list of seminal 1960s electric blues albums is incomplete without \u003cem\u003eAlbert King’s Born Under a Bad Sign\u003c\/em\u003e positioned near the top. The Indianola, Mississippi-born King of the Blues Guitar, who cut his professional teeth as a resident of the St. Louis suburb of Lovejoy, Ill., cemented his legacy with his Stax Records debut album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile he’d recorded for labels like Vee-Jay, Parrot, and Bobbin, it was his chemistry with the Stax team – label executives Al Bell, Jim Stewart, and Estelle Axton, songwriters Booker T. Jones and William Bell, and backing from Booker T. \u0026amp; the MGs and the Memphis Horns – that put King on the blues map. \u003cstrong\u003eAlbert King\u003c\/strong\u003e, one of the single most influential bluesmen in history, single-handedly ushered blues into the modern era by combining his direct, urgent Mississippi blues style with contemporary soul rhythms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe continually redefined the state of contemporary blues with his dry, husky voice and torrid Flying V guitar sound. Pressed on 180-gram Vinyl with All Analogue mastering from the original stereo tapes by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Craft Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50401425523019,"sku":"1060177","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f2bb15f0-c8dd-412e-8f1d-963d8b6528eb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726522280","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/born-under-a-bad-sign-mono","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}