On this day in music history:

Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails (1989)

Blues on the Bayou by B.B. King (1998)

Live in Italy by Cecilia Bartoli (1998)

Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose by Meat Loaf (2006)

Bleed Out by Within Temptation (2023)

Pretty Hate Machine

Album by Nine Inch Nails,

released October 20, 1989.

Track List: Head Like A Hole; Terrible Lie; Down In It; Sanctified; Something I Can Never Have; Kinda I Want To; Sin; That’s What I Get; The Only Time; Ringfinger.

Blues on the Bayou

Album by B.B. King,

released October 20, 1998.

Track List: Blues Boys Tune; Bad Case of Love; I’ll Survive; Mean Ole’ World; Blues Man; Broken Promise; Darlin’ What Happened; Shake It Up and Go; Blues We Like; Good Man Gone Bad; If I Lost You; Tell Me Baby; I Got Some Outside Help I Don’t Need; Blues in ‘G’; If That Ain’t It I Quit.

Live in Italy

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

released October 20, 1998.

Track List: Tu Ch’hai Le Penne, Amore; Amarilli; Al Fonte, Al Prato; Lascia la Spina; Agitata Da Due Venti; Oiseaux, Si Tous Les Ans, K. 307; La Pastorella, D 528; Havanaise; Hai Luli!; Zaide; Malinconia, Ninfa Gentile; Ma Rendi Pur Contento; La Conocchia; Me Voglio Fa ‘Na Casa; Mi Lagnero Tacendo; Mi Lagnero Tacendo (Il Risentimento); Mi Lagnero Tacendo (Sorzico); L’ Orpheline Du Tyrol; Riedi Al Soglio (Zelmira); Le Nozze Di Figaro: Voi Che Sapete; Canzonetta Spagnuola; Caro Mio Ben; Cinco Canciones Negras, No. 5: Canto Negro; Carmen: Seguedille (Carmen).

Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose

Album by Meat Loaf,

released October 20, 2006.

Track List: The Monster Is Loose; Blind As a Bat; It’s All Coming Back To Me Now; Bad For Good; Cry Over Me; In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King; Monstro; Alive; If God Could Talk; If It Ain’t Broke Break It; What About Love; Seize the Night; The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be; Cry To Heaven.

Bleed Out

Album by Within Temptation,

released October 20, 2023.

Track list: We Go To War; Bleed Out; Wireless; Worth Dying For; Ritual; Cyanide Love; The Purge; Don't Pray For Me; Shed My Skin (Within Temptation & Annisokay); Unbroken; Entertain You; We Go To War (Instrumental); Bleed Out (Instrumental); Wireless (Instrumental); Worth Dying For (Instrumental); Ritual (Instrumental); Cyanide Love (Instrumental); The Purge (Instrumental); Don't Pray For Me (Instrumental); Shed My Skin (Instrumental); Unbroken (Instrumental); Entertain You (Instrumental).

On this day in music history:

Heaven on Earth by Belinda Carlisle (1987)

Let the Good Times Roll by B.B. King (1999)

Hidden Sky by Jami Sieber (2004)

Nightbook by Ludovico Einaudi (2009)

Heaven on Earth

Album by Belinda Carlisle,

released October 5, 1987.

Track list: Heaven Is A Place On Earth; Circle In The Sand; I Feel Free; Should I Let You In?; World Without You; I Get Weak; We Can Change; Fool For Love; Nobody Owns Me; Love Never Dies.

Let the Good Times Roll

Album by B.B. King,

released October 5, 1999.

Track list: Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens; Is You Is, Or Is You Ain’t (My Baby); Beware, Brother, Beware; Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door; Ain’t That Just Like A Woman; Choo Choo Ch’Boogie; Buzz Me; Early In The Mornin’; I’m Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town; Jack, You’re Dead; Knock Me A Kiss; Let The Good Times Roll; Caldonia; It’s A Great, Great Pleasure; Rusty Dusty Blues (Mama Mama Blues); Sure Had A Wonderful Time Last Night; Saturday Night Fish Fry; Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out.

Hidden Sky

Album by Jami Sieber,

Released October 5, 2004.

Track list: Maenam; Out of the Mist; Homage; Sukhothai Rain; Red Moon; Common Music; In the Silence; Prayer 1; Hidden Sky; Mandlovu Mind; Arms of the Mother; Prayer 2; Hidden Sky.

Nightbook

Album by Ludovico Einaudi,

released October 5, 2009.

Track list: Einaudi: Indaco; Einaudi: The Snow Prelude No. 15; Einaudi: Eros; Einaudi: The Crane Dance; Einaudi: The Snow Prelude No. 2; Einaudi: The Tower; Einaudi: Reverie; Einaudi: Bye Bye Mon Amour; Einaudi: The Planets; Einaudi: Solo; Einaudi: Berlin Song.

On this day in music history:

Crystal Ball by Styx (1976)

There Is Always One More Time by B.B. King (1991)

The Sacred Well: The Best of 2002 by 2002 (2002)

Someone Like Me by Sherry Finzer (2011)

Sol Novo by Olivia Belli (2021)

Warming by the Devil’s Fire / documentary (2003)

Crystal Ball

Album by Styx,

released October 1, 1976.

Track list: Put Me on; Mademoiselle; Jennifer; Crystal Ball; Shooz; This Old Man; Clair de Lune/Ballerina.

There Is Always One More Time

Album by B.B. King,

released October 1, 1991.

Track list: I’m Moving On; Back In L.A.; The Blues Come Over Me; Fool Me Once; The Lowdown; Mean And Evil; Something Up My Sleeve; Roll, Roll, Roll; There Is Always One More Time.

The Sacred Well: The Best of 2002

Album by 2002,

released October 1, 2002.

Track list: City of Peace; Lovers’ Bridge; Summer of 300 Years; Lady of the Moon; The Sea at Night; Stella Maris; Kindred Spirit; To Touch the Sky; The Calling; The Ocean Dreams; Full Circle.

Someone Like Me

Album by Sherry Finzer,

released October 1, 2011.

Track list: Moves Like Jagger; Firework; Payphone; Someone Like You; Marry Me; Give Your Heart a Break; Call Me Maybe; Breathe; Raise Your Glass; Only Girl; What Makes You Beautiful; Someone Like You (Bonus Track).

Sol Novo

Album by Olivia Belli,

released October 1, 2021.

Track list: Two Seas; Island I; Open Air; Bora; Grain Moon; Island II; Bilico; Fingers, Be Rain; Grembo; Visions to Come; Bleak; As I Was; The Light Endures.

Warming by the Devil’s Fire

Documentary directed and written by Charles Burnett.

Part 4 of the documentary series The Blues.

Produced by Martin Scorsese.

Released in the United States on October 1, 2003.

Additional music by Stephen James Taylor.

Cast: Tommy Redmond Hicks, Nathaniel Lee Jr., Carl Lumbly, Ivy Cassel, Frances Horton White, Susan McWilliams, Tommie Tc Carter, Goodman. Wille, Colleen White, Vasti Jackson, Nathaniel Lee Sr., Ted Davis, Ilona W. Wilkes, Jay R. Unger, Big Bill Broonzy, Sam Chatmon, Elizabeth Cotton, Ida Cox, Gary Davis, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin Hopkins, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, Brownie McGhee, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Victoria Spivey, Sonny Terry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson.

Born on this day – B.B. King:

B.B. King

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

Producer

September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015

On this day in music history:

Bodyrock by Lee Aaron (1989)

Mozart Portraits by Cecilia Bartoli (1994)

B.B. King & Friends: 80 by B.B. King (2005)

I’ll Meet You In The Morning by Kristin Asbjørnsen (2013)

Bodyrock

Album by Lee Aaron,

released September 13, 1989.

Track list: Nasty Boyz; Yesterday; Gotta Thing for You; Rock Candy; Tough Girls Don’t Cry; Sweet Talk; Rock the Hard Way; Shame; Whatcha Do to My Body; Hands on; Rebel Angel; How Deep.

Mozart Portraits

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

released September 13, 1994.

Track list: Mozart: Così fan tutte / Act 1 - “Temerari! Sortite!” - “Come scoglio!”; Mozart: Così fan tutte, K.588 / Act 2 - “Ei parte...Per pietà”; Mozart: Così fan tutte, K.588 / Act 1 - “In uomini, in soldati”; Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro / Act 3 - “E Susanna non vien!” - “Dove sono i bei momenti”; Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro / Act 4 - Giunse alfin il momento...Al desio di chi t’adora; Mozart: Don Giovanni, K.527 / Act 1 - “Batti, batti, o bel Masetto” Cecilia Bartoli, Franz Bartolomey, Wiener Kammerorchester & György Fischer; Mozart: Don Giovanni: In quali eccessi... Mi tradi; Mozart: Davidde Penitente, K.469 - 3. Aria: “Lungi le cure ingrate”; Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K.165 Cecilia Bartoli, Ingomar Raimer, Wiener Kammerorchester & György Fischer.

B.B. King & Friends: 80

Album by B.B. King,

released September 13, 2005.

Track list: Early in the Morning, by Van Morrison; Tired of Your Jive, by Billy Gibbons; The Thrill Is Gone, by Eric Clapton; Need Your Love So Bad, by Sheryl Crow; Ain’t Nobody Home, by Daryl Hall & John Oates, Daryl Hall; Hummingbird, by John Mayer; All Over Again, by Mark Knopfler; Drivin’ Wheel, by Glenn Frey; There Must Be a Better World Somewhere, by Gloria Estefan; Never Make Your Move Too Soon, by Roger Daltrey; Funny How Time Slips Away, by Bobby Bland; Rock This House, by Elton John.

I’ll Meet You In The Morning

Album by Kristin Asbjørnsen,

released September 13, 2013.

Track list: Take My Mother Home; I’m Gonna Cross The River Of Jordan; I Made My Vow To The Lord; Tramping; Shine; Run All The Way; Balm In Gilead; Wasn`t That a Wide River; Do Don`t You Weep For My Baby; No More; Spring Is Coming.

September in music history:

Woman Blues! by Victoria Spivey with Lonnie Johnson (1961)

What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong (1967)

To Know You Is to Love You by B.B. King (1973)

Sanctuary by Sherry Finzer (2009)

Woman Blues!

Album by Victoria Spivey with Lonnie Johnson,

released in September, 1961.

Exact release date unknown.

Track list: Christmas Without Santa Claus; A Big One; Let’s Ride Tonight; What Is This Thing They’re Talking About; I’m A Red Hot Mama; Grow Old Together; Beautiful World; I Got Men All Over This Town; That Man; Thursday Girl.

What a Wonderful World

Album by Louis Armstrong,

released September 1, 1967.

Track list: What a Wonderful World; Cabaret; The Home Fire; Dream a Little Dream of Me; Give Me Your Kisses; Sunshine of Love; Hello Brother; There Must Be a Way; Fantastic, That’s You; I Guess I’ll Get the Papers and Go Home; Hellzapoppin’.

To Know You Is to Love You

Album by B.B. King,

released in September, 1973.

Exact release date unknown.

Track list: I Like To Live The Love; Respect Yourself; Who Are You; Love; I Can’t Leave; To Know You Is To Love You; Oh To Me; Thank You For Loving The Blues.

Sanctuary

Album by Sherry Finzer,

released September 1, 2009.

Track list: Awakenings; Celestial Voyage; Mystic Haze; Ethereal Journey; Fortitude; Peaceful Drift.

On this day in music history - One Kind Favor, by B.B. King (2008):

One Kind Favor

Album by B.B. King,
released on August 26, 2008.

Track list:

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean; I Get So Weary; Get These Blues off Me; How Many More Years; Waiting for Your Call; My Love Is Down; The World Gone Wrong; Blues Before Sunrise; Midnight Blues; Backwater Blues; Sitting on Top of the World; Tomorrow Night.

On this day in music history:

The Blues by B.B. King (1958)

Dark Before Dawn by Breaking Benjamin (2015)

The Blues

Album by B.B. King,

released June 23, 1958.

Track list: Why Do Things Happen to Me; Ruby Lee; When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer; Past Day; Boogie Woogie Woman; Early Every Morning; I Want to Get Married; That Ain’t the Way to Do It; Troubles, Troubles, Troubles; Don’t You Want a Man Like Me; You Know I Go For You; What Can I Do.

Dark Before Dawn

Album by Breaking Benjamin,

released June 23, 2015.

Track list: Dark; Failure; Angels Fall; Breaking the Silence; Hollow; Close to Heaven; Bury Me Alive; Never Again; The Great Divide; Ashes of Eden; Defeated; Dawn.

On this day in music history:

Blues Summit by B.B. King (1993)

Jupiters Darling by Heart (2004)

Blues Summit

Album by B.B. King,

released June 22, 1993.

Track list: Playin’ With My Friends; Since I Met You, Baby; I Pity The Fool; You Shook Me; Something You Got; There’s Something On Your Mind; Little By Little; Call It Stormy Monday; You’re The Boss; We’re Gonna Make It; I Gotta Move Out Of This Neighborhood / Nobody Love – Orch; Everybody’s Had The Blues.

Jupiters Darling

Album by Heart,

released June 22, 2004.

Track list: Make Me; Oldest Story In the World; Things; The Perfect Goodbye; Enough; Move On; I Need the Rain; I Give Up; Vainglorious; No Other Love; Led to One; Down the Nile; I’m Fine; Fallen Ones; Lost Angel; Hello Moonglow.

On this day in music history:

Singin’ the Blues by B.B. King (1957)

One of These Nights by the Eagles (1975)

The Wild Heart by Stevie Nicks (1983)

Reflections by B.B. King (2003)

Singin’ the Blues

Album by B.B. King,

released June 10, 1957.

Track list: Three O’Clock Blues; You Know I Love You; Woke Up This Morning (My Baby’s Gone); You Upset Me Baby; Please Love Me; Blind Love; Woke Up This Morning; You Know I Love You; Sweet Little Angel; Ten Long Years; Did You Ever Love a Woman; Crying Won’t Help You; Whole Lotta Meat (Bonus Track); I’m Cracking Up Over You (Bonus Track); I Stay in the Mood (Bonus Track); When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer (Bonus Track); Jump with You Baby (Bonus Track); Lonely & Blue (Bonus Track); Dark Is the Night PT 1 (Aka the Blues Has Got Me) (Bonus Track); Ruby Lee.

One of These Nights

Album by the Eagles,

released June 10, 1975.

Track list: One of These Nights; Too Many Hands; Hollywood Waltz; Journey of the Sorcerer; Lyin’ Eyes; Take It to the Limit; Visions; After the Thrill Is Gone; I Wish You Peace.

The Wild Heart

Album by Stevie Nicks,

released June 10, 1983.

Track list: Wild Heart; If Anyone Falls; Gate and Garden; Enchanted; Nightbird; Stand Back; I Will Run to You - By Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty; Nothing Ever Changes; Sable on Blond; Beauty and the Beast.

Reflections

Album by B.B. King,

released June 10, 2003.

Track list: Exactly Like You; On My Word Of Honor; I Want A Little Girl; I’ll String Along With You; I Need You So; A Mother’s Love; (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons; Neighborhood Affair; Tomorrow Night; There I’ve Said It Again; Always On My Mind; Cross My Heart; What A Wonderful World.

On this day in music history:

B.B. King Wails by B.B. King And His Orchestra (1959)

Eagles by the Eagles (1972)

Takin’ a Stand by Deborah Coleman (1995)

Piano Solos by Laura Sullivan (2003)

Moments from the Life Stories of Strangers Part Two by The Luminous World Orchestra (2016)

Chromatones by Darlene Koldenhoven (2018)

B.B. King Wails

Album by B.B. King And His Orchestra,

released in June 1959.

Exact release date unknown.

Track list: Joe Josea; I’ve Got Papers on You, Baby; Tomorrow Is Another Day; Come by Here; The Fool;  Love You So; The Woman I Love; We Can’t Make It Right; Treat Me Right; Time to Say Goodbye.

Eagles

Album by the Eagles,

released June 1, 1972.

Track list: Take It Easy; Witchy Woman; Chug All Night; Most of Us Are Sad; Nightingale; Train Leaves Here This Morning; Take the Devil; Earlybird; Peaceful Easy Feeling; Tryin’.

Takin’ a Stand

Album by Deborah Coleman,

released June 1, 1995.

Track list: Evil Gal’s Daughter; Missin’ You; Don’t Talk About Love; Takin’ A Stand; I Believe; Moanin’ The Blues; I Cry; What Should I Do; Can’t Leave The Blues; Them Changes; Changes Revisited.

Piano Solos

Album by Laura Sullivan,

released June 1, 2003.

Track list: Hope for the Sun; Dreaming Underwater; Selling Water by the River; Lullaby Wind; Sleepwalking (On a Tightrope); Claire De Lune; Calls to Spirit; Brave Mourning; Of Land & Sea, Of Mortal & Divine; The Voyage Home; In Last Hours.

Moments from the Life Stories of Strangers Part Two

Album by The Luminous World Orchestra,

conducted by Steven Chesne,

released June 1, 2016.

Track list: Grace of Ganesha; Perpetual Motion; Brushing Through the Crowd; The Mask of the Familiar; Glory Story #541; Cirrostratus; For When Innocence Finds Compassion; Cupid and Psyche; Fruits of Persistence; Voices in the Fountain: I. The Water; Voices in the Fountain: II. Emerging; Voices in the Fountain: III. Voices; Voices in the Fountain: IV. Resonant Fragment.

Chromatones

Album by Darlene Koldenhoven,

released June 1, 2018.

Track list: Golden Dawn; Mourning Doves; Red Savannah; Swans on the Seine; Terra Affirma; Native Bloom; Vibrant Worlds; Chromatones; Prism of Time; Painted Desert; Waltzing in Planetary Time.

On this day in music history - Makin' Love Is Good for You, by B.B. King (2000):

Makin’ Love Is Good for You

Album by B.B. King,

released April 25, 2000.

Track list:

I Got To Leave This Woman; Since I Fell For You; I Know; Peace Of Mind; Monday Woman; Ain't Nobody Like My Baby; Makin' Love Is Good For You; Don't Go No Farther; Actions Speak Louder Than Words; What You Bet; You're On Top; Too Good To You Baby; I'm In The Wrong Business; She's My Baby.

B.B. King, on learning:

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

- B.B. King.

On this day in music history:

King of the Blues / My Kind of Blues by B.B. King (1960)

Homeland by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel (1990)

He Said She Said by Peter Karp & Sue Foley (2010)

King of the Blues / My Kind of Blues

Album by B.B. King,

released March 16, 1960.

Track list: King Of The Blues; I've Got A Right To Love My Baby; What Way To Go; Long Nights; Feel Like A Million; I’ll Survive; Good Man Gone Bad; If I Lost You; You’re On The Top; Partin’ Time; I’m King; You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now; Mr. Pawnbroker; Understand; Someday Baby; Driving Wheel; Walking Dr. Bill; My Own Fault, Baby; Catfish Blues; Hold That Train; Please Set The Date; Whole Lotta Love; Woke Up This Morning; Let’s Do The Boogie; Story From My Heart And Soul; Jump With You Baby; Bye Bye Baby.

Homeland

Album by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel,

released March 16, 1990.

Track list: Homeland; Lotus; Peru; Aria; Clancy's Heart; Traveling Home; Caravan Crossing; Immigrant; The Voyage.

He Said She Said

Album by Peter Karp & Sue Foley,

released March 16, 2010.

Track list: Treat Me Right; So Far so Fast; Wait; Rules of Engagement; Hold on Baby; Mm Hmm; Danger Lurks; Ready for Your Love; Scared; Valentine's Day; Dear Girl; Baby Don't Go; Regret; Lost in You.

On this day in music history:

Midnight Believer by B.B. King (1978)

Radiant Sky by Scott August (2010)

Traces of You by Kristin Asbjørnsen (2018)

Midnight Believer

Album by B.B. King,

released February 16, 1978.

Track list: When It All Comes Down; Midnight Believer; I Just Can't Leave Your Love Alone; Hold on (I Feel Our Love Is Changing); Never Make a Move Too Soon; World Full of Strangers; Let Me Make You Cry a Little Longer; Better Not Look Down; Same Old Story (Same Old Song); Happy Birthday Blues; I've Always Been Lonely; Second Hand Woman; Tonight I'm Gonna Make You a Star; Beginning of the End; Story Everybody Knows; Take It Home.

Radiant Sky

Album by Scott August,

released February 16, 2010.

Track list: Calling the Sun; New Horizons; Arc of Dreams; Rivier of Stars; Santa Fe; Since the Stars Fell; Rising from the Plateau; Journey of Solace; A Pale Radiance; Searching Beyond.

Traces of You

Album by Kristin Asbjørnsen,

released February 16, 2018.

Track list: By Your Side; You Hold Me While Leaving Me; She Holds My Hand; Promise; We Haven’t Found Our Way Back Home; Goodbye; Finally; I Won’t Leave The Room; Spring Reappears; Traces Of You; Vil Du Være Her Bestandig.

On this day in music history - Deuces Wild, by B.B. King (1997):

Deuces Wild

Album by B.B. King,

released on November 4, 1997.

Track list:

If You Love Me - (with Van Morrison); Thrill Is Gone, The - (with Tracy Chapman); Rock Me Baby - (with Eric Clapton); Please Send Me Someone to Love - (with Mick Hucknall); Baby I Love You - (with Bonnie Raitt); Ain’t Nobody Home - (with D’Angelo); There Must Be a Better World Somewhere - (with Dr. John); Confessin’ the Blues - (with Marty Stuart); Paying the Cost to Be the Boss - (with The Rolling Stones); Dangerous Mood - (with Joe Cocker); Keep It Coming - (with Heavy D); Cryin’ Won’t Help You - (with David Gilmour / Paul Carrack); Night Life - (with Willie Nelson).