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Love Me Tender is a studio album by the American blues musician B.B. King.[1][2] It was released via MCA Records in 1982.[3] King supported the album by appearing on Austin City Limits.[4]

Love Me Tender
Studio album by B.B. King
Released	1982
Genre	Blues
Label	MCA Records
Producer	Stewart Levine
B.B. King chronology
There Must Be a Better World Somewhere (1981) Love Me Tender (1982) Blues 'N' Jazz (1983)

The album peaked at No. 179 on the Billboard 200.[5]

Production

Produced by Stewart Levine, the album was recorded in Nashville.[6][7] The Muscle Shoals Horns appear on some tracks.[8]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[10]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[11]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[12]

The New York Times panned the first side of Love Me Tender, calling it "bland, countrypolitan elevator music," but thought more highly of side two's "first-rate after-hours blues."[7] The Globe and Mail wrote that "the singing is lugubrious, the playing is by rote, and the sound is so lush that King can barely be heard above it."[8]

AllMusic called the album an "extremely ill-advised foray into mushy Nashville cornpone."[9] The Rolling Stone Album Guide considered it a return to the "gentle sound" of Midnight Believer.[12]

Track listing

References

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