It’s a line that has kept swirling in my head since watching him play that evening back in mid July. “But I thank the good Lord for bringing me back.” “I’ve been dead so many times,” he tells me. During the past 81 years he has survived three shootings, a handful of stabbings, a near fatal bike accident that pressed his spine, a stomach ulcer doctors believed would kill him, an accidental electrocution, the hurricane that ripped New Orleans apart in 2005, and now a pandemic that claimed the lives of a number of other musicians of his generation across this city. Little Freddie King has certainly paid his dues. Walk the streets with holes in their shoes, work a whole month without getting paid, like I did.’” “People ask me, ‘Do you think the younger guys play the blues like you play?’ And I say: ‘No way.’ That’s because they didn’t go through what I went through. “It comes from the heart and the soul and the feeling, and also the depression that you went through” he says, when we meet the day before his birthday show. It’s fluid tempo and timing, harmonica riffs, and stories that tell the tales of growing up poor in the Magnolia state and then life in New Orleans. One cable, straight from guitar to amp, no effects or overdrive. He plays an often chaotic, dirty form of country blues – “gutbucket”, as he defines it. His shows can feel like a transport back in time.
Born Fread Eugene Martin in 1940 in the small town of McComb, Mississippi, he has ridden the peaks and troughs of New Orleans’s fortunes since he hopped the train south as a teenager. One of the last bluesmen of his generation in a city famed for its jazz, King has become a local emblem over the years. King, Johnny Winter), we will also be including the original stunning album cover art, with the photography of Ed Caraeff, truly enhancing your Freddie King experience.‘People ask me, ‘do you think the younger guys play the blues like you play?’ And I say: ‘No way.’ That’s because they didn’t go through what I went through.’ Photograph: Akasha Rabut/The Guardian Mastered impeccably by Joe Reagoso (Leon Russell, B.B. King, Johnny Winter and Canned Heat.įriday Music is very pleased to announce the first time super limited translucent red vinyl edition "Getting Ready" by Freddie King. More great works like "Walking by Myself" "Palace Of The King" and the great Freddie King penned "Tore Down" would find their way on to early FM underground rock radio stations, as the guitar hero's music would find companionship on radio with folks like Eric Clapton, John Mayall, B.B. & The M.G.'s, Claudia Lennear and Don Preston then most recently with Joe Cocker's "Mad Dogs & Englishmen" tour, just to name a few, making this all star session one of the greatest of its time.
The line-up of musicians is second to none with his friends like Leon Russell, Donald Duck Dunn from Booker T. The Lp kicks off with a stellar Don Nix original "Same Old Blues" followed up with the Elmore James classic "Dust My Broom", which gives you an idea what is in store for the entire masterwork.įeaturing one of the biggest blues and rock tracks of his career "Going Down", this particular tune brought a massive new and younger hip audience to the artist, and would develop his career to top of his game for the rest of the seventies until his untimely passing in 1976.
This particular masterwork was produced by Leon Russell and Don Nix for Russell's Shelter Records label, after a successful then recent run with Cotillion/Atlantic Records.
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THE FREDDIE KING - FRIDAY MUSIC SERIES CONTINUES.The expected release date is November 11th, 2022.
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