Artist:  B.B. King

Title:  Take It Home

Date:  1979

Label:  MCA Records    MCA-3151

Cover Concept:  Kathe Schreyer

Photography:  Earl Miller

Art Direction / Design:  Stuart Kusher

Notes:  While there might not be a top-of-the-charts hit here as a whole this record is a great reflection of B.B. as both a singer and as a guitarist. As he's said for years he got his style from not being able to sing and play at the same time and he's worked it to his advantage ever since. Trading licks and lines he tell us stories of those he met along the way. The cover picture of a young boy mesmerized by the beauty of a fine guitar must talk to each of us that appreciated a quality ax. I know I've had my nose up against the glass of many a music store over the years. The back cover has the boy walking off into the sun with the guitar across his back. Lucky kid…

Line Up

B.B. King: guitar, vocals
Dean Parks: guitar
Paul M. Jackson Jr.: guitar
Wilton Felder: bass, sax
Joe Sample: keyboards
"Stix" Hooper: drums and percussion
James Gadson: drums and percussion
Paulinha da Costa: percussion

Track Listing

Side 1

Better Not Look Down
Same Old Story (Same Old Song)
Happy Birthday Blues
I've Always Been Lonely

Side 2

Second-Hand Woman
Tonight I'm Gonna Make You a Star
The Beginning of the End
A Story Everybody Knows
Take It Home