Rough Edges (album)

Rough Edges
Studio album by
Ben E. King
ReleasedJuly 7, 1970
GenreSoul
LabelMaxwell Records
ProducerBob Crewe
Ben E. King chronology
Seven Letters
(1965)
Rough Edges
(1970)
The Beginning of It All
(1972)

Rough Edges is the seventh album and sixth studio album by Ben E. King. After not making any new albums for a few years, King released this album with Maxwell, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. This would be the only full-length LP released on Maxwell, with King transferring to Mandala in 1972.

Tracks 1, 3 and 5 are not medleys but (what are now known as) mash-ups, where he goes back and forth between each song throughout the track.

In a 1970 review of the album, The Macon News called it a "change of pace" from his earlier work that proves him as "one of the finest soul balladeers in the world today".