We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

B​.​B. & The Underground Kingz: The Trill Is Gone [Pimpstrumentals]

by Amerigo Gazaway

subscriber exclusive
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.

about

This is a free album offered to you at no charge. If you would like to make a donation in the form of a payment, feel free to do so as the funds will enable me to continue making unique and quality projects.

Watch the teaser: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEvSNLtBPo4

Under the Soul Mates Project banner of "collaborations that never were," Amerigo Gazaway’s latest imagines a recording session between Blues great, BB King, and Texas rap legends, UGK. Aptly titled “BB & The Underground Kingz: The Trill is Gone,” the producer seamlessly bridges the gap between hip-hop and its predecessor, the blues.

Crafting the album's bedrock from deconstructed samples of King's electric blues hits, Gazaway re-imagined what might have happened had King and UGK actually recorded in the same time and space. Tapping UGK historian and documentary film maker, Sama'an Ashrawi, for unreleased interview audio, the producer cleverly uses the soundbites to help build his project's narrative. Strategically looping and lacing Lucille's guitar licks and B.B.'s road tales with Bun B & Pimp C's southern fried storytelling, Gazaway finds a sweet spot in the overlapping themes of his subjects' respective catalogs.

credits

released December 23, 2015

Soul Mates Records 2015

Produced by Amerigo Gazaway

Executive Producer: Rickey Mindlin

Artwork: Vincent "Mr. Ö" Fontaine (www.mistero.fr)

B.B. King: vocals, guitar (Lucille)

UGK (Pimp C & Bun B): vocals

Amerigo Gazaway: organ, electric bass, rhodes, synth, turntables, drum machine, sampler, vocals (Trill A.G.)

Art Webb (of This is ART): electric bass (tracks 4, 6, 7, 14)

Sama'an Ashrawi: UGK interview audio

The Goodwill Projects: DIY acapellas

Other Audio Sources:

B.B. King: The Life of Riley (Documentary)

WDIA 1070AM: The History, The Legend, The Music (CD)

The Dolewite & Scooby Show (101.1 FM Nashville, "The Beat")

--------------------------------------------------------

R.I.P. Pimp C, B.B. King, DJ Screw & Young Bou

license

tags

about

Soul Mates Records Zagreb, Croatia

Collaborations That Never Were.

Yasiin Gaye I Fela Soul I Bizarre Tribe

contact / help

Contact Soul Mates Records

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like B.B. & The Underground Kingz: The Trill Is Gone [Pimpstrumentals], you may also like: