This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Virtually every retro-swing band in America has been covering, borrowing and blatantly ripping off jump-blues king Louis Jordan for years.
So, you might wonder, does the world really need another album of Jordan covers? If it’s this gem from blues legend B.B. King, it most certainly does. Let The Good Times Roll is no jumping-jive, zoot-suit riot. King, not surprisingly, hews closer to the blues than the jump of Jordan’s sound, finding the soulful centre of classics like Knock Me A Kiss and substituting his fluid fingerwork for Louis’ yakety sax. Not that this hour-long affair is a blues album by any stretch. Backed by a crack band led by Dr. John, King cuts loose and lives up to the title on smokin’ cuts like Choo Choo Ch’Boogie and Caldonia. In the words of Louis himself, if you don’t dig this, Jack, you’re dead.
