Lucille Talks Back

Lucille Talks Back is an album by B. B. King, released in 1975. It is not to be confused with a compilation of the same name, released in 1988.

Lucille Talks Back
Studio album by B. B. King
Released	1975
Genre	Blues
Length	42:20
Label	ABC
Producer	B. B. King
B. B. King chronology
Together for the First Time (1974) Lucille Talks Back (1975) Bobby Bland and B.B. King Together Again...Live (1976)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Christgau's Record Guide	B+[1]

The album was out of print until it was re-released as a bonus disc as part of the iTunes edition of the 2012 box set Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. B. B. King.

Track listing

Side A

1. "Lucille Talks Back (Copulation)" [ Instr. ] (B.B.King) - 2:25
2. "Breaking Up Somebody's Home" (Al Jackson, Jr., Timothy Matthews) -- 2:58
3. "Reconsider Baby" (Lowell Fulson) - 2:53
4. "Don't Make Me Pay For His Mistakes" (Bobby Lexing, Miles Grayson) - 3:15

Side B

1. "When I'm Wrong" (B. B. King) - 6:11
2. "I Know The Price" (B. B. King) -- 3:06
3. "Have Faith" (Shirrell Sutton)- 2:36
4. "Everybody Lies A Little" (Jackson, King) -- 3:43

Personnel

• B.B. King - guitar, vocals
• Jesse Daniel Houck, Milton Hopkins - rhythm guitar
• Rudy Aikels - bass guitar
• Ron Levy - piano, synthesizer
• James Toney - Hammond organ
• John "Jabo" Starks - drums
• Marcus Barnett - percussion
• Bobby Forte - tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Cato Walker III - alto saxophone
• Herbert Hardisty - tenor saxophone, trumpet
• Eddie Rowe - trumpet, flugelhorn
• Joseph Burton - trombone
• B. B. King, Eddie Rowe, Hampton Reese - arrangements

Technical

• Tom Wilkes - art direction
• Martin Donald - design
• Jim McCrary - photography

References

1. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: K". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 28, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.