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2 Albert Collins quizzes and 25 Albert Collins trivia questions.
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  Starring Albert Collins   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The great bluesman Albert Collins was taken from us too early. This quiz covers general information about his recording career.
Average, 10 Qns, deputygary, Jun 12 07
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  Sing Along With Albert Collins   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Albert Collins is no longer with us, but his songs are. Explore some of his beauties with this quiz on lyrics. I'll give you the song and a portion of the lyrics, you pick the next line.
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Albert Collins Trivia Questions
1. Here are some lines from "Stormy Monday": "the ____ flies on Friday, and Saturday I go out to play." What flies on Friday?

From Quiz Sing Along With Albert Collins

Answer: eagle

"Stormy Monday" was written by T-Bone Walker, who also wrote T-Bone Shuffle. According to BB King, this song inspired him to take up the guitar.

2. What guitar did Albert play?

From Quiz Starring Albert Collins

Answer: Fender Telecaster

Albert was "The Master of the Telecaster." Chet Atkins played a Country Gentleman. I play a Yamaha F325 (badly). It is an acoustic guitar.

3. "Don't Go Reaching Across My Plate" is about a man sitting down to a feast. On the menu "they had barbecue possum, rattlesnake gravy," What delicacy comes after rattlesnake gravy?

From Quiz Sing Along With Albert Collins

Answer: chicken fried skunk

"an' it smelt real crazy"

4. Albert recorded 7 albums with a well-known blues recording company. What was its name?

From Quiz Starring Albert Collins

Answer: Alligator Records

Alligator Records' stable of artists included: A.C. Reed, Johnny Copeland, Roy Buchanan, Koko Taylor, Robert Cray, Son Seals, Johnny Winters, and Gatemouth Brown, among many others.

5. In the song "Too Tired" when he "got a good poker hand," what was he too tired to do?

From Quiz Sing Along With Albert Collins

Answer: win

"I layed down last night, too tired to wait; I had a chill this mornin', too tired to shake; I got a good poker hand, too tired to win; I could hear my baby knockin', too tired to let her in."

6. Albert shared a grammy with two other blues guitarists for the 1985 album, "Showdown." Who were the other two guitarists?

From Quiz Starring Albert Collins

Answer: Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland

Angus Young and Bon Scott were/are in AC/DC. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were Country & Western musicians. Ravi Shankar played the sitar while George Harrison was a Beatle.

7. Where or when did he leave in "Iceman" "to heat this coolest place in town?"

From Quiz Sing Along With Albert Collins

Answer: Leona, Texas

Albert was born in Leona, Texas on October 1, 1932.

8. What 1987 movie starring Elizabeth Shue did Albert appear in?

From Quiz Starring Albert Collins

Answer: Adventures in Babysitting

Albert played himself.

9. Albert had a unique style of playing that included minor tuning, use of a capo, and an attacking fingerstyle. His style had a name. What was it?

From Quiz Starring Albert Collins

Answer: Collins Shuffle

"The Master of the Telecaster" used an open Em tuning: E-G-E-G-B-E.

10. "If trouble was money, I swear I'd be a" what?

From Quiz Sing Along With Albert Collins

Answer: millionaire

"If Trouble Was Money" was recorded on the "Live in Japan" album. I have also heard him sing it as "If Money Was Trouble".

11. Albert Collins played on albums for people like Branford Marsalis, John Mayall, David Bowie, Robert Cray and Jack Bruce. Which of his songs did he play on B.B. King's "Blues Summit?"

From Quiz Starring Albert Collins

Answer: Call it Stormy Monday

"Crossroads Blues" is a Robert Johnson song that has been covered by many artists. "Voodoo Child" is a Jimi Hendrix song which has also been done by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Stevie Ray also recorded a version of "Mary Had a Little Lamb".

12. "Now the gas station was closed, the snow was ____ feet tall." How tall was the snow in "Snowed In?"

From Quiz Sing Along With Albert Collins

Answer: eight

In this song, Albert used his guitar to emulate the sounds of trying to start his truck, walking to the gas station, and even a car honking at him.

13. What was the name of the song from his "Ice Pickin'" LP about a man who got his wife a credit card for her birthday?

From Quiz Starring Albert Collins

Answer: Master Charge

"I can see in my mind on a horse like Paul Revere I check my mail box 'cause these bills keep coming here"

14. Here is a line from "Lights Are On But Nobody's Home": "when I have to go to work, I gotta go to work" where?

From Quiz Sing Along With Albert Collins

Answer: downtown

"Lights are on but nobody's home" is an idiom for someone who is not very smart. Some similar sayings are: "a few cards shy of a full deck", "a couple bricks shy of a load", and "his/her elevator doesn't go to the top floor".

15. Where was Albert born?

From Quiz Starring Albert Collins

Answer: Texas

On October 1, 1932 in Leona, Texas. The Iceman was related to Lightnin' Hopkins.

16. Finish this line from "Too Many Dirty Dishes": "when I left I had corn flakes for breakfast, now there's" what?

From Quiz Sing Along With Albert Collins

Answer: a bone from a t-bone steak

Albert was known as "The Master of the Telecaster", "Iceman" and "The Razor Blade Man."

17. What follows this line from "Master Charge:" "two hundred dollar dresses?"

From Quiz Sing Along With Albert Collins

Answer: I could-a made and I can't sew

Jon Smith did the sax solo at the start of "Master Charge." Smith is a popular session saxophonist who has played on albums by such diverse groups as Edgar Winter's White Trash, Toto, Doobie Brothers, Randy Newman, Dr. John, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band, The Fabulous Boogie Kings, and The Forever Fabulous Chickenhawks.

18. What follows "Put your eye on another view" in the song "Put the Shoe on the Other Foot?"

From Quiz Sing Along With Albert Collins

Answer: you can see just like me

"Put your shoe on another foot, you can walk just like me." "Put your eye on another view, you can see just like me." "Put your tongue on another word, you can talk, talk just like me."

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