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Where to start with Albert King
Start with Angel Of Mercy — I'll Play the Blues for You, 1972. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 26 Albert King tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 26 Albert King tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 26 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The years need a caveat: 17 of 26 dated tracks land in the 1960s and come from 2 records, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Every track is filed under blues; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Angel Of Mercy — I'll Play the Blues for You, 1972. Of the 26 Albert King tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the wall end
I'll Play The Blues For You - Pt. 1 — The Very Best Of Albert King, 2007. The highest density reading here, at 82 out of 100 — a 30-point swing across the collection towards wall.
Only the wall end is offered here. The sparse extreme of Albert King in this room is the same track as the centre above, and printing it twice under two headings would be padding.
Where Albert King sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Albert King's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 53 | 52–66 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 58 | 53–58 | ambient → driving |
| density | 53 | 52–82 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 68 | 67–68 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Born Under a Bad Sign | 1967 | 11 |
| I'll Play the Blues for You | 1972 | 8 |
| Live Wire/Blues Power | 1968 | 6 |
| The Very Best Of Albert King | 2007 | 1 |
Every Albert King track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| As The Years Go Passing By | Born Under a Bad Sign | 1967 |
| Born Under A Bad Sign | Born Under a Bad Sign | 1967 |
| Crosscut Saw | Born Under a Bad Sign | 1967 |
| Down Don't Bother Me | Born Under a Bad Sign | 1967 |
| I Almost Lost My Mind | Born Under a Bad Sign | 1967 |
| Kansas City | Born Under a Bad Sign | 1967 |
| Laundromat Blues | Born Under a Bad Sign | 1967 |
| Oh, Pretty Woman (Can't Make You Love Me) | Born Under a Bad Sign | 1967 |
| Personal Manager | Born Under a Bad Sign | 1967 |
| The Hunter | Born Under a Bad Sign | 1967 |
| The Very Thought Of You | Born Under a Bad Sign | 1967 |
| Blues At Sunrise - Live | Live Wire/Blues Power | 1968 |
| Blues Power - Live | Live Wire/Blues Power | 1968 |
| Look Out - Live | Live Wire/Blues Power | 1968 |
| Night Stomp - Live | Live Wire/Blues Power | 1968 |
| Please Love Me - Live | Live Wire/Blues Power | 1968 |
| Watermelon Man - Live | Live Wire/Blues Power | 1968 |
| Angel Of Mercy | I'll Play the Blues for You | 1972 |
| Answer To The Laundromat Blues | I'll Play the Blues for You | 1972 |
| Breaking Up Somebody's Home | I'll Play the Blues for You | 1972 |
| Don't Burn Down The Bridge ('Cuz You Might Wanna Come Back Across) | I'll Play the Blues for You | 1972 |
| High Cost Of Loving | I'll Play the Blues for You | 1972 |
| I'll Be Doggone | I'll Play the Blues for You | 1972 |
| I'll Play The Blues For You - Album Version - (Parts 1 & 2) | I'll Play the Blues for You | 1972 |
| Little Brother (Make A Way) | I'll Play the Blues for You | 1972 |
| I'll Play The Blues For You - Pt. 1 | The Very Best Of Albert King | 2007 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Albert King's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Muddy Waters — blues, 29 tracks
- Where to start with Houndmouth — blues, 11 tracks
- Where to start with Bakar — r&b, 14 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Albert King as a solo artist, from Indianola, the United States and born in 1923. Its contributors tag the artist blues, electric blues and soul blues. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Albert King tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 26, across 4 albums. 26 of them carry a date, running from 1967 to 2007. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 26 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 26 of these 26 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.