B.B. King's One Kind Favor Hits Big!

Music biz trade publication Billboard is reporting that One Kind Favor, the new album from blues artist B.B. King, is the legend's highest-debuting solo album of his lengthy career! Produced by T-Bone Burnett, One Kind Favor entered the Billboard Top 200 at number 37 while also debuting in the top spot on the magazine's separate blues music chart. This impressive showing is King's highest mainstream chart position since Live In Cook County Jail hit number 25 in 1971, a feat that King could easily beat with One Kind Favor.

The new album represents the esteemed blues guitarist's 33rd trip to Billboard's biggest chart, a journey that began in 1968 when King's album Lucille inched into the Top 200. Of course, King has ruled the R&B and blues music charts through the years, placing an amazing 74 songs on the Billboard R&B chart between 1951 and 1985. More recently King has dominated the publication's blues music chart as well, scoring four #1 albums, with four more albums rising as high as #2 in the decade since the 1997 release of King's Deuces Wild.

King's critically-acclaimed 2000 collaboration with blues-rock guitar legend Eric Clapton, Riding With The King, was also a smash, hitting the top spot on the blues chart, rising to #3 on the Billboard Top 200, and winning the pair a Grammy Award. With One Kind Favor already a critical success, expect the album's commercial fortunes to rise even higher as King launches his supporting tour this week.

CD cover photo courtesy Geffen Records

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