Where's a good place to start with BB King?

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Subjects for Further Research [1980s]: He's seldom been terrible, and when in 1978 he stopped trying for AM ballads and disco crossovers and moved on up to nightclub funk, he started making good albums again. There Must Be a Better World Somewhere (1981), anchored by Pretty Purdie with plenty of fine Hank Crawford sax and Dr. John piano, featured fine new songs from Dr. John and Doc Pomus. The voice was no longer exquisite and the licks might as well have been copyrighted, but for King, standard means classic. Then again, it also means predictable, and the only one of his well-made later albums I got into was Fantasy's 16 Original Big Hits, a reissue of Galaxie's 1968 best-of. Now that's classic.

>fucking Christgau
>a paragraph about the later stage of the artist in question's career rather than albums someone would start with
bad post..

>>74550470
>a paragraph about the later stage of the artist in question's career rather than albums someone would start with
Reread it closely. He recommends a good BB King starter collection.

That concert in the Middle East where the band kept playing while he threw up into a trash bin for a few minutes.

Almost anything from the 60s as that period was really his artistic peak.