Being born in Texas in 1944 and moving to Chicago in 1956 may explain a lot about Freddie King – Rollings Stone’s Magazine #25 in list of 100 greatest guitarist . How else to you get Texas Blues out of Chicago? Texas didn’t let go of this great man go as unrecognized and in 1993, declared September 3 Freddie King Day. Freddie was hugely influential in the British Blues scene having Eric Clapton as a fan and may well be why frequently British Blues sounds so much like Chicago blues to me.
Freddie King’s album “Hide Away, The best of Freddie King is also listed by Rolling Stone Magazine as an “Essential Recording” to own. I could only find one new copy for $120! My personal Favorite album is Burglar though with a couple blues tunes known to all of us – “Same Old Blues” and “Let the Good Times Roll”
Here is a nice little collection of Freddie King samples to check out – hope you enjoy them and support WorldofBlues.com.