Biography

Texas blues master Albert Collins was known for his unique Telecaster style, typified by extensive use of reverb, staccato picking, unconventional minor-key tunings, and a percussive, trebly quality. For four decades, from the 1950s on, his "cool" sound was one of the most immediately identifiable in the blues guitar pantheon, inspiring both blues and rock guitarists.

Top Tracks

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• Black Bottom Bayou

• Black Cat Bone

• Blue Monday Hangover

• Caldonia

• Cash Talkin' (the Workingman's Blues)

• Chatterbox

• Cold Tremor

• Collins' Mix

• Collins Shuffle

• Conversation With Collins

• Deep Freeze

• Don't Lose Your Cool

• Frostbite

• Frosty

• Give Me My Blues

• Honey Hush

• How Blue Can You Get?

• I Can't Go On This Way

• Ice Pick

• Iceman

• I've Got A Mind To Travel

• Jealous Man

• Lip Service

• Listen Here!

• Master Charge

• Melt Down

• Mustang Sally

• Snatchin' It Back

• Soul Food

• Stump Poker

• Swamp Sauce

• T-bone Shuffle

• The Hawk

• Trash Talkin'

• Travelin' South

• Wah Heat

• Whatcha Say (i Don't Know)

Discography

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• Live at the Fillmore West

  P-Vine Records

  2000

• Live

  Charly Records

  1999

• The Hot 'Cool' Sound of Albert Collins

  M.I.L. Multimedia

  1998

• Iceman Cometh

  Collectables

  1996

• Live '92/'93

  Point Blank

  1995

• Iceman

  Virgin

  1991

• Jazzvisions: Jump the Blues Away

  Jazzvisions/Verve / Polygram

  1989

• Cold Snap

  Alligator Records

  1986

• Ice Cold Blues

  Charly Records

  1986

• Showdown!

  Alligator Records

  1985

• Live in Japan

  Alligator Records

  1984

• Don't Lose Your Cool

  Alligator Records

  1983

• Frozen Alive!

  Alligator Records

  1981

• Frostbite

  Alligator Records

  1980

• Ice Pickin'

  Alligator Records

  1978

• With Barrelhouse Live

  Munich Records

  1978

• There's Gotta Be a Change

  Pony Canyon Records

  1971

• Trash Talkin'

  P-Vine Records

  1969

• The Cool Sound of Albert Collins

  1965