It's just after the festive season and seeing and hearing a lot of the three kings of the nativity story, it also made me think of the three kings of blues, BB, Albert and Freddie. Unlike the biblical three kings, they probably will be forgotten within a few half-centuries by all other than a few music buffs, the way modern music is going.
Anyways, on Sunday I was in the gym, and every time I start pumping I got to have music on to alleviate the boredom. So the last few sessions I listened to BB and Albert, and on Sunday it was the turn of the third King: Freddie King, Rock and roll Hall of Famer, hard-partying, smooth singing, beautiful guitar playing King of the Texas blues.
Anyone who is not aware of how important Freddie was, check out the list of guitarists that were influenced by him: Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lonnie Mack, Savoy Brown, Chicken Shack, and my first contact with Freddie, Peter Green. Peter Green played one of Freddies songs "The Stumble"in 1967, which is a great instrumental - and that's when I first heard about Freddie King sometime in 1984 or so. I then heard the same song again when I bought a record by British band Love Sculpture on their "Blues Helping" album (Check out my earlier post about this album in this thread).
You want to read about Freddie King, here is the Wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_King#Recognition_and_influence
Freddie has a lot of great Albums, but the one I am going to recommend listening to is an album from 1972 called Texas Cannonball. I have listened to this album on my cassette player about 20 years ago until the cassette was worn out :D . The resoan why I feture this album is because on this album Freddie plays mainly songs by other people, putting his own twist on it, and basically owning these songs. And the singing, great.
So have a listen, and enjoy one of the great singers and guitarists, Peace and love brothers and sisters.
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01 - Lowdown In Lodi ( 0:00 )
02 - Reconsider Baby ( 3:08 )
03 - Big Legend Woman ( 7:08 )
04 - Me And My Guitar ( 11:08 )
05 - I'd Rather Be Blind ( 15:14 )
06 - Can't Trust Your Neighbour ( 19:00 )
07 - You Was Wrong ( 22:57 )
08 - Ain't No Sunshine ( 26:46 )
09 - The Sky Is Crying ( 30:06 )
10 - Love Her With A Feeling ( 33:32 )
11 - Somebody's Got To Do ( 38:37 )
12 - Pulpwood ( Instrumental ) ( 44:35 )
13 - That's All Right ( 51:47 )
14 - The Same Thing ( 56:30 )
15 - Tore Down ( 1:02:27 )
16 - Dust My Broom ( 1:09:06 )