Originally from Texas, Freddy moved to Chicago in 1950 and proceeded to hone his craft in the local club scene. As a young buck he became associated with the Chicago West Side school of blues guitarists along with Magic Sam, Otis Rush, Luther Allison, Eddy Clearwater and others. At this time, during the late 1950's and early 1960's these artists were seen as the 'new thing' .
He was not signed by the famous Chess Records group as they believed his style was too close to the master B B King. Hence his signing to Federal/King where he would travel to Cincinnatti to make recordings under the supervision of pianist/producer Sonny Thompson,So here are 24 recordings from that period and the sub-title 'Influential' is no empty claim. Freddie became a Blues hero around the world. Unfortunately Freddy was to have a short life and was dead at age 42 due to acute pancreatitis.
'Freddy' changed the spelling of his first name to 'Freddie' for his next recordings on the Cotillion/Atlantic label and I shall post these in the near future. Meanwhile enjoy the great guitar and wailing vocals of a Blues Master !!!
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Sweet! Now this material I have never heard from Mr. San-Ho-Zay! Can't wait to dive in deep. Thanks a million.
Thanks for the early Freddy. All of his phases were great.
Man ! Some of you could make a comment ? It's a drag but it's only fair - Ain't it ?
yeah, frustrating eh Gus? take a look at the Ray Agee post that I worked my ass off on, 1 comment! Only thing that seems to have any effect is when I throw a public fit - I frankly can't be bothered to do that any more so when I get really pissed off again, I'm just going to go dark for a week and see how they like that!
Anyway thanks for both of these, I imagine these will let me delete some older stuff when I get around to it,
This early stuff of Freddy King is great. Influential? Of course! But his imitators could never better the original.Thanks.
Thanks for this - and, although I think it's related to the Ray Agee post - it's amazing, as has been said before, how many of these artists are for the most part literally unknown, save for 1 or 2 songs, to the 'general' music listener. And, then again, some of it might be because the deejay that we listened to, years (I'm sorry to say) either was unaware of the musician a/o the musician wasn't one to go through that particular area. Case in point - I grew up listening, primarily, listening to the R&B station(s) in my area -one was easy to pull in the other gave me issues, and I don't think that Agee's name ever came across the air - because I know I would have had to remembered him. Thanks for this site - and some gifts, in this case, of 1 King from another!
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Thanks again GuitarGus!
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