Freddy King - Texas Oil: The Complete Federal & El-Bee Sides 1956-1962 (2 CD)

Album: Texas Oil
Size: 130,3 + 151,4 MB
Time: 56:17 + 65:26
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

CD 1:
1. See See Baby (2:17)
2. You've Got To Love Her With A Feeling (3:14)
3. Have You Ever Loved A Woman (3:06)
4. Hide Away (Instrumental) (2:37)
5. I Love The Woman (2:48)
6. Lonesome Whistle Blues (2:47)
7. If You Believe (In What You Do) (2:58)
8. It's Too Bad (Things Are Going So Tough) (3:06)
9. I'm Tore Down (2:37)
10. Butterscotch (Onion Rings) (Instrumental) (3:06)
11. Sen-Sa-Shun (Instrumental) (2:52)
12. Side Tracked (Instrumental) (3:03)
13. The Stumble (Instrumental) (3:12)
14. San-Ho-Zay (Instrumental) (2:52)
15. Wash Out (Instrumental) (2:35)
16. You Know That You Love Me (But You Never Tell Me So) (2:27)
17. Heads Up (Instrumental) (2:30)
18. Christmas Tears (2:47)
19. Let Me Be (Stay Away From Me) (2:28)
20. Takin' Care Of Business (2:46)

CD 2:
1. You Mean, Mean Woman (How Can Your Love Be True) (2:43)
2. I Hear Jingle Bells (2:36)
3. In The Open (Instrumental) (2:56)
4. Out Front (Instrumental) (2:38)
5. Swooshy (Instrumental) (2:16)
6. Closed Door (High Rise) (Instrumental) (3:03)
7. Texas Oil (Instrumental) (2:25)
8. She Put The Whammy On Me (4:54)
9. I'm On My Way To Atlanta (3:39)
10. Over Drive (The Untouchable Glide) (Instrumental) (2:48)
11. Driving Sideways (Instrumental) (2:48)
12. Sittin' On The Boat Dock (3:05)
13. Come On (3:34)
14. Do The President Twist (2:44)
15. (Let Your Love) Watch Over Me (4:13)
16. You Can't Hide (3:01)
17. It's Easy Child (3:10)
18. Just Pickin' (2:18)
19. Your Love Keeps A-Working On Me (2:56)
20. What About Love (2:25)
21. Country Boy (2:30)
22. That's What You Think (2:35)

Definitive remastered edition with 16-page booklet containing rare photos and detailed liner notes, this special 2-CD collector's edition contains 42 remastered studio tracks, including all of the fabulous early singles - both A & B-sides - Freddy King made for Federal Records between 1960 and 1962. The set also includes King's rare 1956 sides for the small El-Bee label. This is the material upon which Freddy King's legend was built and marks one of the most important building blocks of the electric blues.

Hotter than molten steel and best known for his searing, assertive guitar solos and dynamic showmanship, the great Freddy King was a forceful presence and formidable gure in two of the most prominent blues scenes: Texas and Chicago. Revered by his fans and respected by his peers, King was an innovative instrumentalist and underrated singer. He would move beyond electric blues, R&B and soul to make commercial inroads into funk. There was a time, though, in the early and mid-1960s when his records were among the most influential in blues, particularly for British and European audiences.

(For personnel and recording details, see artwork included.)

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Freddie King - Feeling Alright: The Complete 1975 Nancy Pulsations Concert (2 CD)

Album: Feeling Alright
Size: 152,1 + 136,3 MB
Time: 66:01 + 59:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2026
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

CD 1:
1. Have You Ever Loved A Woman? (17:43)
2. Whole Lot Of Lovin' (5:22)
3. Medley: Hey Baby/Mojo Boogie (10:52)
4. The Things I Used To Do (7:35)
5. Messin' With The Kid (5:28)
6. That's All Right (6:31)
7. Goin' Down (4:13)
8. Stormy Monday Blues (8:12)

CD 2:
1. Medley: Sen Sa Shun/Lookin' Good/Boogie Chillun (9:15)
2. Sweet Little Angel (11:10)
3. Got My Mojo Working (8:47)
4. Sweet Home Chicago (5:59)
5. Wee Baby Blues (5:00)
6. The Danger Zone (3:02)
7. Feeling Alright (6:33)
8. You're The One/Finale (9:16)

For the first time ever, experience the full power of Freddie King's explosive 1975 performance at the Jazz Pulsations Festival in Nancy, France - a never-before-released live set that captures the Texas blues legend at his fiercest. King roars through a high-energy set of blues, funk, and soul-drenched grooves, backed by a razor-sharp band and fueled by his searing guitar tone and powerhouse vocals. This performance, long held in the archives of INA (the French national audiovisual institute), is now presented in it's complete form - fully restored and available to the public for the very first time. The audio was transferred directly from the original stereo tape reels at INA and mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab, ensuring stunning sound quality that brings every note to life. /Amazon

Personnel: Freddie King (guitar, vocals); Ed Lively (guitar); Benny Turner (bass); Calep Emphrey (drums); Alvin Hemphill (organ); Lewis Stephens (piano).

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Freddy King - Bossa Nova And Blues

Size: 200 MB
Time: 32:13
File: Flac
Released: 1996
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. (I'd Love To) Make Love To You (2:25)
2. You're Barkin' Up The Wrong Tree (2:46)
3. Look Ma, I'm Cryin' (3:13)
4. It Hurts To Be In Love (2:39)
5. You Walked In (2:44)
6. The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist (2:53)
7. Is My Baby Mad At Me (2:26)
8. Someday, After Awhile (You'll Be Sorry) (2:51)
9. One Hundred Years (2:25)
10. Bossa Nova Blues (2:48)
11. The Welfare (Turns Its Back On You) (2:42)
12. Walk Down That Ailse (Honey Chile) (2:18)

Pressed at R.T.I. on 180 Gram Vinyl! One of the Three Kings of blues guitar along with B.B. and Albert, Texas-born Freddy (Freddie) King influenced everyone from Eric Clapton and Peter Green in the UK to Jerry Garcia and Stevie Ray Vaughan in the States. But even his staying up all night playing poker with Grand Funk wasn’t enough to prevent his seminal King/Federal albums from staying out of print on vinyl for decades — until Sundazed came to the rescue. The reissue campaign that began with meticulously mastered editions of King classics Let’s Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King, Freddy King Gives You a Bonanza of Instrumentals, and Freddy King Goes Surfin’ continues with his rare 1963 offering, Bossa Nova and Blues. In the tradition of his surfing album, which wasn’t really surf, Bossa Nova and Blues had no bossa nova — but the advertising was at least half true, and hey, there were two cuts that had “bossa nova” in the title. Though King was best known for blues instrumentals, “Bossa Nova Blues” and “The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist” (dig the dance craze threesome) were actually the only two instrumentals on an album otherwise dedicated to bluesy ballads. But of course, Freddie made it work — churning out bonafide classics like the karmic “Someday, After A While (You’ll Be Sorry)” (later covered by John Mayall and the Blues Breakers on A Hard Road, also reissued on Sundazed mono CD/LP), the emotive “The Welfare (Turns Its Back on You),” the soulful “It Hurts to Be In Love,” and the more uptempo, New Orleans-flavored “You’re Barkin’ Up the Wrong Tree.”This Sundazed mono edition reproduces the original artwork and presents the original 12-song LP on 180 gram vinyl mastered from the original analog reels and pressed at Record Technology Inc.

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Freddie King - Freddie King (Live Fillmore West September 3rd. 1970) (Restauracion 2023)

Size: 148.9 MB
Time: 64:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Front

01. Instrumental (Live Fillmore West September 3rd. 1970) [Restauracion 2023] ( 4:24)
02. I'm Tore Down (Live Fillmore West September 3rd. 1970) [Restauracion 2023] ( 5:25)
03. Someday Baby (Live Fillmore West September 3rd. 1970) [Restauracion 2023] ( 5:19)
04. Have You Ever Loved A Woman (Live Fillmore West September 3rd. 1970) [Restauracion 2023] (11:39)
05. Instrumental II (Live Fillmore West September 3rd. 1970) [Restauracion 2023] ( 6:45)
06. Key To The Highway (Live Fillmore West September 3rd. 1970) [Restauracion 2023] ( 7:03)
07. Going Down (Live Fillmore West September 3rd. 1970) [Restauracion 2023] ( 5:44)
08. Going Down Part Two (Live Fillmore West September 3rd. 1970) [Restauracion 2023] ( 2:18)
09. Ain't Nobody's Business If We Do (Live Fillmore West September 3rd. 1970) [Restauracion 2023] ( 6:33)
10. Hideaway (Live Fillmore West September 3rd. 1970) [Restauracion 2023] ( 4:07)
11. Dust My Broom (Live Fillmore West September 3rd. 1970) [Restauracion 2023] ( 5:23)

Guitarist Freddie King rode to fame in the early '60s with a spate of catchy instrumentals which became instant bandstand fodder for fellow bluesmen and white rock bands alike. Employing a more down-home (thumb and finger picks) approach to the B.B. King single-string style of playing, King enjoyed success on a variety of different record labels. Furthermore, he was one of the first bluesmen to employ a racially integrated group on-stage behind him. Influenced by Eddie Taylor, Jimmy Rogers, and Robert Jr. Lockwood, King went on to influence the likes of Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Lonnie Mack, among many others.

Freddie King (who was originally billed as "Freddy" early in his career) was born and raised in Gilmer, TX, where he learned how to play guitar as a child; his mother and uncle taught him the instrument. Initially, King played rural acoustic blues, in the vein of Lightin' Hopkins. By the time he was a teenager, he had grown to love the rough, electrified sounds of Chicago blues. In 1950, when he was 16 years old, his family moved to Chicago, where he began frequenting local blues clubs, listening to musicians like Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Little Walter, and Eddie Taylor. Soon, the young guitarist formed his own band, the Every Hour Blues Boys, and was performing himself.

In the mid-'50s, King began playing on sessions for Parrott and Chess Records, as well as playing with Earlee Payton's Blues Cats and the Little Sonny Cooper Band. Freddie King didn't cut his own record until 1957, when he recorded "Country Boy" for the small independent label El-Bee. The single failed to gain much attention.

Three years later, King signed with Federal Records, a subsidiary of King Records, and recorded his first single for the label, "You've Got to Love Her With a Feeling," in August of 1960. The single appeared the following month and became a minor hit, scraping the bottom of the pop charts in early 1961. "You've Got to Love Her With Feeling" was followed by "Hide Away," the song that would become Freddie King's signature tune and most influential recording. "Hide Away" was adapted by King and Magic Sam from a Hound Dog Taylor instrumental and named after one of the most popular bars in Chicago. The single was released as the B-side of "I Love the Woman" (his singles featured a vocal A-side and an instrumental B-side) in the fall of 1961 and it became a major hit, reaching number five on the R&B charts and number 29 on the pop charts. Throughout the '60s, "Hide Away" was one of the necessary songs blues and rock & roll bar bands across America and England had to play during their gigs.

King's first album, Freddy King Sings, appeared in 1961, and it was followed later that year by Let's Hide Away and Dance Away With Freddy King: Strictly Instrumental. Throughout 1961, he turned out a series of instrumentals -- including "San-Ho-Zay," "The Stumble," and "I'm Tore Down" -- which became blues classics; everyone from Magic Sam and Stevie Ray Vaughan to Dave Edmunds and Peter Green covered King's material. "Lonesome Whistle Blues," "San-Ho-Zay," and "I'm Tore Down" all became Top Ten R&B hits that year.

Freddie King continued to record for King Records until 1968, with a second instrumental album (Freddy King Gives You a Bonanza of Instrumentals) appearing in 1965, although none of his singles became hits. Nevertheless, his influence was heard throughout blues and rock guitarists throughout the '60s -- Eric Clapton made "Hide Away" his showcase number in 1965. King signed with Atlantic/Cotillion in late 1968, releasing Freddie King Is a Blues Masters the following year and My Feeling for the Blues in 1970; both collections were produced by King Curtis. After their release, Freddie King and Atlantic/Cotillion parted ways.

King landed a new record contract with Leon Russell's Shelter Records early in 1970. King recorded three albums for Shelter in the early '70s, all of which sold well. In addition to respectable sales, his concerts were also quite popular with both blues and rock audiences. In 1974, he signed a contract with RSO Records -- which was also Eric Clapton's record label -- and he released Burglar, which was produced and recorded with Clapton. Following the release of Burglar, King toured America, Europe, and Australia. In 1975, he released his second RSO album, Larger Than Life.

Throughout 1976, Freddie King toured America, even though his health was beginning to decline. On December 29, 1976, King died of heart failure. Although his passing was premature -- he was only 42 years old -- Freddie King's influence could still be heard in blues and rock guitarists decades after his death. ~Cub Koda

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Freddie King - Going Down At Onkel Po's

Size: 182.6 MB
Time: 78:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Full

CD 1:
01. Introduction ( 2:17)
02. Big Leg Woman ( 6:45)
03. The Moon Is Rising ( 7:06)
04. Woman Across The Water ( 7:27)
05. Boogie Funk ( 6:35)
06. 56th And Wichita (10:39)
07. Feelin' Alright ( 5:00)
08. Have You Ever Loved A Woman ( 8:53)
09. Rock Me Baby ( 5:48)
10. Mojo Boogie ( 5:22)
11. Something You Got ( 6:15)
12. Messin' With The Kid ( 5:56)

CD 2:
01. Sweet Home Chicago ( 6:58)
02. You're The One ( 9:13)
03. Woke Up This Morning ( 5:28)
04. Ain't Nobody's Business ( 6:57)
05. Kings Things ( 7:13)
06. Going Down ( 9:58)
07. Things That I Used To Do ( 4:26)
08. Let The Good Times Roll ( 7:08)
09. Stormy Monday (16:39)

Personnel:
Guitar, Vocals – Freddie King
Rhythm Guitar – Ed Lively
Bass – Benny Turner
Drums – Caleb Emphrey
Organ – Alvin Hemphill
Piano – Louis Stephens

Recorded live at Onkel Po’s Carnegie Hall, Hamburg, Germany on October 19, 1975.

Two discs (21 tracks and 150 minutes of music !) that represent the very best Freddie King has to offer. The band is hot, the sound quality is great and Freddie is simply on fire. And " Hideaway" is on there but not listed on the track listings, but it leads into Mojo Boogie.

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Freddie King - Electric King... Plus (3 CD)

Album: Electric King... Plus
Size: 184,4 + 181,9 + 95,0 MB
Time: 79:53 + 8:47 + 40:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2022
Styles: Blues
Art: Front, back

CD 1:
1. San-Ho-Zay (2:17)
2. Have You Ever Loved A Woman (4:53)
3. Hideaway (4:26)
4. Play It Cool (4:05)
5. Sen-Sa-Shun (3:54)
6. Something You Got (4:11)
7. Intro Jam (1:25)
8. Big Legged Woman (6:43)
9. Woman Across The River (5:36)
10. Look Over Yonder Wall (7:09)
11. Ain't No Sunshine (13:57)
12. Red Light, Green Light (6:57)
13. Drums (1:37)
14. Have You Ever Loved A Woman (12:37)

CD 2:
1. Let The Good Times Roll (2:11)
2. Let The Good Times Roll (Continued) (6:42)
3. Goin' Down (6:08)
4. Big Legged Woman (5:00)
5. Woman Across The River (4:29)
6. While The Moon Is Shining Bright (6:19)
7. Ain't Nobody Business (7:52)
8. Key To The Highway (4:15)
9. Hideaway (5:14)
10. Goin' Down (5:16)
11. Early One Morning (6:28)
12. Come On (Part III) (7:09)
13. Have You Ever Loved A Woman (9:54)
14. KZEW Outro (LSB Commercial) (1:44)

CD 3:
1. Hide Away (2:39)
2. Butterscotch (3:03)
3. Sen-Sa-Shun (2:52)
4. Side Tracked (3:06)
5. The Stumble (3:13)
6. Wash Out (2:35)
7. San-Ho-Zay (2:38)
8. Just Pickin' (2:31)
9. Heads Up (2:32)
10. In The Open (3:09)
11. Out Front (2:39)
12. Swooshy (2:20)
13. (Let Your Love) Watch Over Me (4:13)
14. It's Easy Child (3:14)

Texas born Freddie King was one of the all time great blues guitarists, and was a major influence in the sixties on the likes of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor. The first two CDs showcase live recordings from his classic repertoire over a period from 1969 to 1975. His signature tune “Hide Away” was named after a nightclub on Chicago’s Westside; “Mel’s Hideaway Lounge”.

The third CD is King’s studio album Let’s Hide Away And Dance Away which contains all his best known tracks including “Sen-Sa-Shun”, “Side Tracked”, and “San-Ho-Zay”, as well as “Hide Away”.

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Freddie King - Burglar

Album: Burglar
Size: 87,2 MB
Time: 37:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1974/1992
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Pack It Up (4:10)
2. My Credit Didn't Go Through (4:08)
3. I Got The Same Old Blues (3:22)
4. Only Getting Second Best (3:48)
5. Texas Flyer (3:46)
6. Pulp Wood (3:11)
7. She's A Burglar (3:49)
8. Sugar Sweet (2:51)
9. I Had A Dream (5:01)
10. Come On (Let The Good Times Roll) (3:33)

Produced in part by Mike Vernon, who worked on The Legendary Christine Perfect Album, this is an entertaining and concise package of ten songs performed by the late Freddie King and a slew of guests. Opening with Gonzalez Chandler's "Pack It Up," featuring the Gonzalez Horn Section, the youthful legend was only 40 years of age when he cut this career LP two years before his death. Though no songs went up the charts like his Top Five hit in 1961, "Hide Away," Burglar is one of those gems that journeymen can put together in their sleep. Tom Dowd produced "Sugar Sweet" at Criteria Studios in Miami, FL, featuring Jamie Oldaker on drums, Carl Radle on bass, and guitarists Eric Clapton and George Terry, which, of course, makes this album highly collectable in the Clapton circles.

The sound doesn't deviate much from the rest of the disc's Mike Vernon production work; it is pure Freddy King, like on the final track, E. King's "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)," where his guitar bursts through the horns and party atmosphere, creating a fusion of the pure blues found on "Sugar Sweet" and the rock that fans of Grand Funk grooved to when he opened for that group and was immortalized in their 1973 number one hit "We're an American Band" a year after this record's release. Sylistically, Freddie King is from the same school as Buddy Guy, two men instrumental in bringing this art form to a mass audience. King stretches those sounds with great fervor on the Hayes/Porter number "I Had a Dream," containing the strength Mark Farner said the blues artist displayed in concert, which could snap a guitar neck.

The voice of Freddie King is what drives J.J. Cale's "I Got the Same Old Blues," the horns and the guitar battling between verses and uniting to ooze under the guitarist's vocal expression. Rhythm guitarist Bob Tench, producer Mike Vernon, bassist DeLisle Harper, drummer Steve Ferrone, and pianist Roy Davies all co-write "Texas Flyer" with Freddie King, a prime example of the modern blues this artist was developing. With Brian Auger and Pete Wingfield contributing to the title track, Jerry Ragovoy's "She's a Burglar," this project stands as a solid representation of an important musician which is as enjoyable as it is historic. /Joe Viglione, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Freddy King - Freddy King, Blues, Guitar

Released: 2021
Size: 133.4 MB
Time: 57:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. You've Got to Love Her with Feeling [3:14]
2. Butterscotch [3:04]
3. In the Open [3:09]
4. Heads Up [2:32]
5. Have You Ever Loved a Woman [3:05]
6. Do the President Twist [2:43]
7. It's Easy Child [3:18]
8. (Let Your Love) Watch over Me [4:13]
9. San-Ho-Zay [2:38]
10. It's Too Bad (Things Are Going so Tough) [3:04]
11. Let Me Be (Stay Away from Me) [2:27]
12. Wash Out [2:36]
13. Out Front [2:39]
14. See See Baby [2:17]
15. You Know That You Love Me [2:19]
16. Takin' Care of Business [2:45]
17. If You Belive Me [2:58]
18. Lonesome Whistle Blues [2:48]
19. Side Tracked [3:06]
20. You Mean Mean Woman (How Can Your Love Be True) [2:42]

Freddie King is among the triumvirate of the greatest and most influential electric blues guitarists ever, revered with equal respect alongside the legendary blues gods B.B. King and Albert King. Together, they are often referred to as The Three Kings - all complete masters of their craft and essential subjects of study for any inspiring blues guitar enthusiast. In this edition of In Deep, we'll examine a few of the trademark Freddie King-isms that have earned him his rightful place as the forefront of electric blues guitar. Of the three Kings, Freddie had a hard-driving intensity that gave his guitar lines and solos a fiery spirit. And though he was blessed with what were arguably the most powerful vocal pipes of the three, he distinguished himself as a player and composer by penning the greatest blues guitar instrumentals in the genre’s history, such as the classic masterpieces Hideaway, The Stumble, Sen-Sa- Shun, San-Ho-Zay, Side Tracked, In the Open, and many others, all songs that have been covered brilliantly by such blues-rock heroes as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Johnny Winter, ZZ Top and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Freddie King was born as Frederick Christian on September 3, 1934.

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Freddy King - Live In Nancy, 1975 Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

Album: Live In Nancy, 1975 Vol. 1
Size: 105.2 MB
Time: 45:17
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1989
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Messin' With The Kid ( 5:31)
02. That's Allright ( 6:35)
03. Goin' Down ( 4:16)
04. Stormy Monday Blues ( 7:54)
05. Sen-Sa-Shun / Lookin' Good / Boogie Chillun ( 9:17)
06. Sweet Little Angel (11:40)

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Album: Live In Nancy, 1975 Vol. 2
Size: 86.7 MB
Time: 37:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1989
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Got My Mojo Working (8:02)
02. Sweet Home Chicago (6:00)
03. Wee Baby Blues (5:03)
04. The Danger Zone (3:04)
05. Feeling Alright (6:36)
06. You're The One (9:03)

Personnel:
Freddy King - Guitar & Vocals
Benny Turner - Bass
Calep Emphrey - Drums
Mark Pollack - Guitar
Alvin Hemphill - Organ
Lewis Stephens - Piano

Recorded in Nancy Jazz Festival (France), November 1975.

Born September 3, 1934 in Gilmer, Texas, died December 28, 1976 in Dallas, Texas. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1949. In 1956 he cut his first record as a leader. Later he was one of the first bluesmen to have a multi-racial backing band at live performances. Freddie King is often mentioned as one of “the three kings” of electric blues guitar along with Albert King and B.B. King (no relation).
In 1993 by proclamation from the Texas Governor Ann Richards, September 3 was declared the Freddie King Day. Freddie King placed 15th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. In 2012, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Various Artists - Popcorn Blues Party Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

Album: Popcorn Blues Party Vol. 1 (KMCD28)
Size: 137,8 MB
Time: 57:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front & Back

01 B.B. King - Sixteen Tons (2:34)
02 Johnny Copeland - Just One More Time (2:55)
03 Jody Williams - Lucky Lou (3:48)
04 John Lee Hooker - You Gotta Shake It Up And Go (2:17)
05 Memphis Slim - Steppin' Out (2:00)
06 Bo Diddley - She's Fine, She's Mine (2:42)
07 Roy Gaines - Black Gal (2:22)
08 Tabby Thomas - My Baby Got It (2:33)
09 Dennis Roberts - I Don't Care (2:43)
10 Jerry McCain - Jet Stream (2:30)
11 Sugar Boy Williams - Little Girl (2:33)
12 Jimmie Lee Robinson - Lonely Traveling (2:25)
13 Howlin' Wolf - Going Back Home (2:41)
14 Ricky Allen - Cut You A-Loose (2:48)
15 Johnny Guitar Watson - Wait A Minute Baby (2:06)
16 Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - The Cricket (2:47)
17 Jimmy Rogers - What Have I Done (2:43)
18 Sonny Boy Williamson - Help Me (3:10)
19 Freddie King - The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist (2:53)
20 Rose Mitchell - Baby Please Don't Go (2:25)
21 Otis Rush - Keep On Loving Me Baby (2:23)
22 Shakey Jake - Jake's Cha Cha (2:07)

Album: Popcorn Blues Party Vol. 2 (KMCD29)
Size: 153,1 MB
Time: 64:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front & Back

01 Albert King - Had You Told It Like It Was (3:09)
02 Bobby 'Blue' Bland - 36-22-36 (2:51)
03 Miss Lavelle White - Stop These Teardrops (2:22)
04 Ike Turner & His Orchestra - She Made My Blood Run Cold (2:21)
05 Little Joe Washington - Bossa Nova And Grits (2:12)
06 Sir Arthur Coleman - Stop Cheating On Me (2:52)
07 Albert Collins - Icy Blue (3:02)
08 Big Jack Reynolds - Made It Up In Your Mind (2:26)
09 Piney Brown - Sugar In My Tea (Cream In My Coffee) (2:30)
10 Bo Diddley - Down Home Special (3:12)
11 Louisiana Red - Sugar Hips (4:30)
12 Charles Sheffield - Its Your Voodoo Working (1:47)
13 Charles Clark - Hidden Charms (2:34)
14 Doug Johnson & The Outlaws - Quick Sand (2:40)
15 Blind Johnny Davis - Magic Carpet (2:14)
16 Nappy Brown - My Baby (2:31)
17 Otis Rush & His Band - All Your Love (2:38)
18 Willie Cobbs - You Don't Love Me (6:06)
19 Tommy Brown - Southern Women (2:29)
20 Bo Diddley - I Can Tell (4:34)
21 Peppermint Harris - Need Your Lovin' (2:50)
22 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) - Up The Line (2:07)

The Popcorn genre is a style of music and dancing first established in Belgium (the Land of Beers) in the late 1960s and it got its name from a discotheque called the Popcorn. This style includes a pretty eclectic and wide range of American R&B and pop songs mostly recorded in the 1950s and mid-1960s in a slow or medium tempo and often in a minor key. Popcorn can be recognized by its tempo just as much as its sound. In an article for The Guardian titled ''Belgium's 'Popcorn: the last underground music scene in Europe'' musician and writer Bob Stanley wrote ''the purity of Belgian Popcorn is its very impurity. R&B, Broadway numbers, tangos, Phil Spector-Esque girl groups, and loungey instrumentals, they are all constituent parts of a rare, and still largely undiscovered scene. It won't stay that way forever.

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Freddie King - Blues Journey (Live)

Album: Blues Journey Vol. 1
Size: 490 MB
Time: 3:26:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Front

Vol. 1:
01. Let The Good Times Roll (Live) (7:10)
02. San-Ho-Zay (Live) (2:16)
03. Boogie Funk (Live) (5:01)
04. Ain't No Sunshine (Live) (5:31)
05. Ain't Nobody Business (Live) (7:45)
06. Woman Across The River (Live) (5:36)
07. Hide Away (Live) (5:14)
08. Goin' Down (Live) (5:16)
09. Boogie Funk (Version 2) (Live) (6:55)
10. Wee Baby Blues (Live) (6:28)
11. Something You Got (Live) (4:11)
12. Key To The Highway (Live) (4:20)

Vol. 2:
01. Have You Ever Loved A Woman (Take 1) (Live) (12:45)
02. Kings Thing (Live) ( 7:13)
03. Let The Good Times Roll (Version 2) (Live) ( 2:11)
04. Look Over Yonder Wall (Live) ( 7:10)
05. Messin' With The Kid (Live) ( 4:23)
06. Mojo Boogie (Live) ( 7:17)
07. Pack It Up (Live) ( 3:44)
08. Play It Cool (Live) ( 4:05)
09. Big Legged Woman (With A Short Short Mini Skirt) (Live) ( 5:16)
10. Signals Of Love (Live) ( 8:14)
11. TV Mama (Live) (12:53)

Vol. 3:
01. Sen-Sa-Shun (Live) ( 3:54)
02. Sweet Little Angel (Live) (11:36)
03. Rock Me Baby (Live) ( 5:23)
04. Woke Up This Morning (Live) ( 5:28)
05. Boogie Funk (Version 3 Live) ( 8:26)
06. Wee Baby Blues (Version 2 Live) ( 5:06)
07. That's All Right (Live) ( 7:10)
08. Little Bluebird (Live) ( 5:26)
09. Stormy Monday - Hide Away (Live) (16:43)

Over 30 tracks. Over 3 hours of prime Freddie King in concert from the '70s. I was interested in the white rock 'n' rollers until I heard Freddie King - and then I was over the moon. I knew that was where I belonged - finally. That was serious, proper guitar playing and I haven't changed my mind ever since. I still listen to him and I get the same boost now that I did then.' Eric Clapton. In a 1985 interview, Eric Clapton cited Freddy King's 1961 B side I Love the Woman as the first time I heard that electric lead-guitar style, with the bent notes' [it] started me on my path. Clapton shared his love of King with fellow British guitar heroes Peter Green, Jeff Beck and Mick Taylor, all of whom were profoundly influenced by King's sharpened-treble tone and curt melodic hooks on iconic singles such as The Stumble, I'm Tore Down and Someday, After Awhile. Nicknamed The Texas Cannonball for his imposing build and incendiary live shows, King had a unique guitar attack. Steel on steel is an unforgettable sound, says Derek Trucks, referring to King's use of metal banjo picks. But it's gotta be in the right hands. The way he used it ' man, you were going to hear that guitar. Trucks can still hear King's huge impact on Clapton. When I played with Eric, Trucks said recently, there were times when he would take solos and I would get that Freddy vibe.' King's blues style was fluid, but with biting power that was arguably more forceful than that of many other bluesmen of his day. King used thumb and finger picks and would just dig into his Gibson 355 ' hung precariously over just his right shoulder ' creating what are now classic, deeply influential and riveting solos.

MP3:
Blues Journey Vol. 1
Blues Journey Vol. 2
Blues Journey Vol. 3

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Freddie King - Blues Journey Vol. 2 (Live)

Size: 172,3 MB
Time: 75:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Front

01. Have You Ever Loved A Woman (Take 1) (Live) (12:45)
02. Kings Thing (Live) ( 7:13)
03. Let The Good Times Roll (Version 2) (Live) ( 2:11)
04. Look Over Yonder Wall (Live) ( 7:10)
05. Messin' With The Kid (Live) ( 4:23)
06. Mojo Boogie (Live) ( 7:17)
07. Pack It Up (Live) ( 3:44)
08. Play It Cool (Live) ( 4:05)
09. Big Legged Woman (With A Short Short Mini Skirt) (Live) ( 5:16)
10. Signals Of Love (Live) ( 8:14)
11. TV Mama (Live) (12:53)

Freddie King in concert from the ’70s.

Guitarist Freddie King rode to fame in the early '60s with a spate of catchy instrumentals which became instant bandstand fodder for fellow bluesmen and white rock bands alike. Employing a more down-home (thumb and finger picks) approach to the B.B. King single-string style of playing, King enjoyed success on a variety of different record labels. Furthermore, he was one of the first bluesmen to employ a racially integrated group on-stage behind him. Influenced by Eddie Taylor, Jimmy Rogers, and Robert Jr. Lockwood, King went on to influence the likes of Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Lonnie Mack, among many others.

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VA - Mighty Instrumentals R&B Style 1960

Size: 167,7+170:58 MB
Time: 70:36+71:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front

CD 1:
01 Don & Dewey - Jump Awhile (2:22)
02 B.B. King - Power House (2:35)
03 Preston Epps - Bongo In The Congo (1:59)
04 Jim Conley - Nite-Lite Slop (2:46)
05 Bill Parker - Boogie Bayou Shuffle (2:39)
06 Allen Toussaint - Chico (2:18)
07 Roy Montrell - Mudd (2:34)
08 Jimmy Oliver & The Rockers - Slim Jim Pt. 1 (2:39)
09 Willie Wright & His Sparklers - Bloodhound Pt. 1 (2:30)
10 Willie Wright & His Sparklers - Bloodhound Pt. 2 (2:05)
11 Grant Green - Space Flight (2:39)
12 Kid King's Combo - Shaggy Dog (2:28)
13 Curley Hamner - Piano Tuner (3:43)
14 Freddie King - San-Ho-Zay (2:38)
15 Bo Diddley - Shank (1:57)
16 Jimmy Liggins - Last Round (2:14)
17 Googie Rene - The Slide Pt. 2 (2:19)
18 Young Guitar Red - Red Hot Red (1:44)
19 Ike Turner - Doublemint (2:24)
20 Earl Hooker - Dynamite (2:22)
21 Dave 'Baby' Cortez - Hurricane (2:25)
22 Chuck Berry - Surfin' Steel (Cryin' Steel) (2:31)
23 James Booker - Cool Turkey (2:19)
24 Bill Doggett - (Let's Do) The Hully Gully Twist (1:58)
25 Buddy Guy - Gully Hully (3:06)
26 Skippy Brooks - Dim Lights (2:30)
27 Lowell Fulson - Low Society (2:33)
28 Willis Jackson - Blue Gator (4:08)

CD 2:
01 George Harmonica Smith - Loose Screws (2:27)
02 Lloyd Glenn - Universal Rock (2:32)
03 Lloyd Glenn - The Shakedown (2:30)
04 Johnny Copeland - Late Hours (2:11)
05 Robert Parker - Walkin' (2:37)
06 James Rivers - The Blue Eagle Pt. 1 (2:50)
07 James Rivers - The Blue Eagle Pt. 2 (2:45)
08 B.B. King - Goin' South Pt. 1 (2:42)
09 B.B. King - Goin' South Pt. 2 (2:10)
10 Jimmy Beck - Arabian Blues (3:09)
11 Clifton Chenier - Rockin' Accordion (2:18)
12 Elmore James - She Done Move (1:51)
13 Shakey Jake Harris - Jake's Cha Cha (2:08)
14 Sonny Boy Williamson - The Goat (2:21)
15 Jerry McCain - Rough Stuff (2:13)
16 Bill Doggett - Buttered Popcorn (2:45)
17 Gus Jenkins - Tricky Too (2:24)
18 Henry Hayes - Spring Fever (2:30)
19 B. Brown & His Rockin McVouts - Candied Yams (2:28)
20 Clifford King - Chicken Shack Boogie (2:35)
21 Henry Clement - Trojan's Walla (2:33)
22 Little Vincent - Honk Honk Honk Pt. 1 (2:17)
23 Little Vincent - Honk Honk Honk Pt. 2 (2:17)
24 Monte Easter - Weekend Blues (2:40)
25 Bo Diddley - The Twister (2:08)
26 Pee Wee Crayton - Twinky (3:10)
27 Slim Harpo - Snoopin' Around (2:17)
28 Curley Hamner & Cooper Bros - Air Raid (2:33)
29 Jessie Hill - Ooh Poo Pah Doo Pt. 2 (2:16)

1960 was the year that instrumentals hit the charts in a big way with guitar or sax-led rockers and slinky organ groovers. Here are the discs that teenagers wanted to hear in the juke joints: exciting, uptempo stompers with catchy, melodic riffs, along with slow, soulful, down home blues. This compilation throws the spotlight on instrumentals by artists more widely associated with vocals, along with more obscure artists who may only have had one or two releases to their name.

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Freddie King - My Feeling For The Blues

Year: 1970/2012
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:04
Size: 83,4 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Yonder Wall (3:22)
2. Stumble (3:36)
3. I Wonder Why (3:18)
4. Stormy Monday (4:24)
5. I Don't Know (3:06)
6. What'd I Say (2:55)
7. Ain't Nobody's Business What We Do (3:38)
8. You Don't Have To Go (2:28)
9. Woke Up This Morning (3:13)
10. The Things I Used To Do (3:50)
11. My Feeling For The Blues (2:09)

Donny Hathaway as arranger, King Curtis as producer, and a rhythm section that included Jerry Jemmott and Cornell Dupree. The groove tempos are not too fast and not too slow; in other words just right. The horn arrangements are sublime and Freddie's performance is top-notch. My Feeling For The Blues is a one-of-a-kind blues album by the great Freddie King.

The first two songs, "Yonder Wall" and "The Stumble" set the tone for the whole recording. In fact, the album's opener is a laid back rendition of Elmore James's "Yonder Wall". King Curtis lays a great, soulful horn and Freddie's guitar sounds more upfront than on his previous LP.

From there, My Feeling for the Blues listens as a tribute to the Giants of the Blues genre: King tackles B.B. King's "I Wonder Why" and "Woke Up This Morning", T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday", Jimmy Reed's "You Don't Have to Go" and Eddie 'Guitar Slim' Jones classic "The Things I Used to Do", while upping the pace with a frantic, instrumental take on Ray Charles "What'd I Say".

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Freddie King - Stumble: The Cotillion Years

Year: 2019
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:28
Size: 168,6 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Front

1. Hideaway (2:33)
2. Stumble (3:36)
3. Yonder Wall (3:22)
4. Ain't Nobody's Business What We Do (3:38)
5. Blue Shadows (3:41)
6. Stormy Monday (4:24)
7. Funky (2:28)
8. Woke Up This Morning (3:13)
9. My Feeling For The Blues (2:08)
10. Get Out Of My Life, Woman (3:34)
11. What'd I Say (2:55)
12. Hot Tomato (2:49)
13. I Don't Know (3:06)
14. The Things I Used To Do (3:50)
15. I Wonder Why (3:18)
16. Let Me Down Easy (3:02)
17. Play It Cool (3:48)
18. You Don't Have To Go (2:28)
19. That Will Never Do (2:25)
20. Wide Open (3:05)
21. It's Too Late, She's Gone (2:24)
22. Today I Sing the Blues (3:57)
23. Sweet Thing (2:32)

Although his career was tragically cut short by his death at the age of 42, Freddie King was one of America’s most distinctive and influential electric blues guitarists, leaving an indelible mark on more than one generation of guitar superstars, including Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Rolling Stones’ Mick Taylor. The Texas-born axeman began playing guitar at the age of six, and in his teens moved with his family to the South Side of Chicago, where he was inspired by witnessing club gigs by such seminal electric bluesmen as Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers and Elmore James.

Originally billed as Freddy King, he began recording in 1957, revealing a massively influential style that merged his Texas and Chicago influences, and soon achieved commercial success with a series of infectious instrumental hits.

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Freddie King - Freddie King Is A Blues Master: The DeLuxe Edition

Year: 1969/2014
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:31
Size: 98,6 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Play It Cool (3:46)
2. That Will Never Do (2:25)
3. It's Too Late, She's Gone (2:23)
4. Blue Shadows (3:40)
5. Today I Sing The Blues (3:58)
6. Get Out Of My Life Woman (3:34)
7. Hideaway (2:31)
8. Funky (2:28)
9. Hot Tomato (2:48)
10. Wide Open (3:05)
11. Sweet Thing (2:31)
12. Let Me Down Easy (3:04)
13. Play It Cool (Rare Mono A-Side) (Bonus) (3:45)
14. Funky (Rare Mono B-Side) (Bonus) (2:26)

Friday Music is proud to offer for the first time Freddie King Is A Blues Master: The Deluxe Edition. This legendary blues release is now enhanced with impeccable mastering from the original Cotillion Records tapes by Joe Reagoso (Freddie King/Muddy Waters) on workouts like "Today I Sing The Blues, Get Out Of My Life Woman" and the super rare mono 45 rpm mixes of his brilliant "Play It Cool" and his collaboration with the legend King Curtis on "Funky." We have also included some rare label memorabilia, original artwork elements, new liner notes including some words from friend Johnny Winter. /Amazon

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Freddy King - Hideaway

Size: 140,2 MB
Time: 60:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1992
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. See See Bay (2:17)
02. You've Got To Love Her With A Feeling (3:15)
03. Have You Ever Loved A Woman (3:07)
04. Hideaway (2:37)
05. I Love The Woman (2:51)
06. Country Boy (2:30)
07. That's What You Think (2:36)
08. Lonesome Whistle Blues (2:51)
09. It's Too Bad Things Are Going So Tough (3:07)
10. I'm Tore Down (2:39)
11. Sen-Sa-Shun (2:53)
12. Side Tracked (3:09)
13. The Stumble (3:14)
14. San-Ho-Zay (2:39)
15. Christmas Tears (2:48)
16. In The Open (3:08)
17. Takin' Care Of Business (2:47)
18. Driving Sideaways (2:49)
19. Someday After Awhile (You'll Be Sorry) (2:49)
20. (The Welfare) Turns It's Back On You (2:46)
21. Let Me Down Easy (3:02)

A compilation between 1956-1968

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VA - Play: Blues Ballads

Size: 312,7 MB
Time: 134:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01 ZZ Top - Blue Jeans Blues (4:40)
02 T-Bone Walker - How Long Blues (5:16)
03 Fats Domino - Wait Till It Happens To You (Version 2) (2:30)
04 Freddie King - Ain't Nobody's Business What We Do (3:38)
05 Joe Turner - Still In Love (2:56)
06 Aretha Franklin - Good To Me As I Am To You (3:55)
07 Ray Charles - I Believe To My Soul (3:01)
08 Ivory Joe Hunter - Can't Explain How It Happened (2:41)
09 Lonnie Mack - What Kind Of World Is This (4:03)
10 Wilbur De Paris - Trouble In Mind (3:02)
11 Judy Henske - Every Night When The Sun Goes Down (4:02)
12 Little Milton - You're Gonna Make Me Cry (5:34)
13 Judy Clay - I Got To Love Somebody's Baby (3:28)
14 Paul Butterfield's Better Days - Please Send Me Someone To Love (Live At Winterland Ballroom) (5:21)
15 Jerry Lee Lewis - Who Will The Next Fool Be (5:47)
16 Johnnie Taylor - Little Bluebird (2:59)
17 Mem Shannon - Old Men (4:56)
18 Doug Sahm & Band - Betty Jo (Bonus Track) (4:06)
19 Low Budget Blues Band Feat. Sanne Salomonsen - Need Your Love So Bad (Feat. Sanne Salomonsen) (4:35)
20 Emmy Rossum - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (3:18)
21 Junior Mance - I Believe To My Soul (Single Version) (3:09)
22 The Watts 103rd. Street Rhythm Band - Stormy Monday (Mono Version) (4:56)
23 Billy Eckstine - Blues In The Night (3:05)
24 Delta Cross Band - Key To Highway (7:50)
25 Bobby Darin - Drown In My Own Tears (3:20)
26 Kelly Joe Phelps - Without The Light (4:47)
27 Lavern Baker - St. Louis Blues (Live In Hollywood, 1991) (8:02)
28 Robert Cray - Out Of Eden (9:18)
29 Daddy's Cash - You See Me (5:28)
30 Dr. John - In A Sentimental Mood (4:04)

Play: Blues Ballads

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Smokey Smothers - Sings The Backporch Blues

Year: 1962/2002
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:38
Size: 162,8 MB
Styles: Blues, Chicago blues
Scans: Full

1. I Can't Judge Nobody (2:45)
2. Come On Rock Little Girl (2:49)
3. Honey I Ain't Teasin' (3:03)
4. You're Gonna Be Sorry (3:05)
5. (What I Done For You) Give It Back (2:51)
6. Smokey's Love Sick Blues (2:56)
7. I've Been Drinking Muddy Water (2:29)
8. Crying Tears (3:24)
9. Midnight And Day (3:00)
10. Blind And Dumb Man Blues (3:04)
11. What Am I Going To Do (2:06)
12. I Ain't Gonna Be No Monkey Man No More (2:27)
13. The Case Is Closed (Bonus) (2:48)
14. Way Up In The Mountains Of Kentucky (Bonus) (2:53)
15. Hello Little School Girl (Bonus) (3:02)
16. Twist With Me Annie (Bonus) (3:09)
17. I've Been Drinking Muddy Water (Alt. Take) (Bonus) (2:29)
18. Blind And Dumb Man Blues (Take 1) (Bonus) (4:07)
19. Honey I Ain't Teasin' (Take 2) (Bonus) (2:59)
20. Smokey's Love Sick Blues (Take 1) (Bonus) (3:01)
21. Come On Rock Little Girl (Alt. Incomplete Take) (Bonus) (1:40)
22. Midnight And Day (Take 1, Incomplete) (Bonus) (2:04)
23. (What I Done For You) Give It Back (Take 1) (Bonus) (2:40)
24. I Ain't Gonna Be No Monkey Man No More (Take 2) (Bonus) (2:29)
25. You're Gonna Be Sorry (Take 1) (Bonus) (3:04)

Otis "Smokey" Smothers's 1962 LP Sings the Backporch Blues is a rare and coveted blues album. This CD puts it into wide circulation and then some, not only presenting all 12 of the songs from the original album (as the first dozen tunes on the disc), but adding nine alternate takes and four tracks from 1962-1963 singles. The album is perhaps overestimated due to its rarity, but it's solid Chicago blues, owing much to the sort of mid-tempo shuffle that Jimmy Reed had made so much in vogue by the early '60s.

Smothers has a relaxed, almost effortless vocal style, and the LP is a rare chance to hear Freddy King working as a session guitarist. King actually plays in a slightly more restrained and traditional style here than he did on his solo recordings. King Records wanted Smothers to play in a Jimmy Reed style, and frankly it did on the whole sound too close to Reed, sharing the flaw of songs that were too similar to each other. Occasionally he breaks out of that mold, as in the minor-key "Crying Tears," though that sounds rather close to some of Otis Rush's early sides, or "I Ain't Gonna Be No Monkey Man No More," which has the kind of jerky R&B feel that Reed usually didn't mine.

The 1962-1963 singles are somewhat more fully produced and Smothers seems a little more at ease, with the grooves flowing in a nice punchy shuffle, though "Twist With Me Annie" suffers from sounding like the umpteenth attempt to make a takeoff on Hank Ballard's old "Work With Me Annie" series of R&B hits. All nine of the alternate takes are alternates of songs from Sings the Backporch Blues itself, and these are thoughtfully separated from the dozen official takes themselves to enhance listening pleasure. /Richie Unterberger, AllMusic

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Freddie King - The Best Of Freddie King: The Shelter Records Years

Year: 2000
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:40
Size: 154,1 MB
Styles: Blues, Texas blues
Scans: Full (?)

1. Going Down (3:22)
2. Five Long Years (4:19)
3. Palace Of The King (3:39)
4. Some Old Blues (3:57)
5. Walking By Myself (2:50)
6. Living On The Highway (4:15)
7. I'd Rather Be Blind (3:44)
8. Reconsider Baby (3:59)
9. Big Legged Woman (3:56)
10. Lowdown In Lodi (3:07)
11. Me And My Guitar (4:03)
12. Woman Across The River (2:46)
13. Help Me Through The Day (4:29)
14. Boogie Man (3:44)
15. I'm Ready (3:45)
16. Please Send Me Someone To Love (3:58)
17. Ain't No Big Deal On You (3:31)
18. Guitar Boogie (3:07)

Though blues master Freddie King's best material was recorded in the 1960s, his early-'70s tenure at Shelter Records yielded some powerful Texas blues that showed King still in full command of his blazing six-string prowess and deep-down, soulful tenor. The Shelter Records Years covers much of the same material as the double-disc King Of The Blues, but is - at 18-tracks - a more streamlined set that features his best work for the period.

The hard-driving "Going Down", for example, is one of his most searing tracks, and gestures to King's down-home roots and to the rock guitarists he influenced. King is equally impressive on string-bending downtempo blues ("Five Long Years"), funk-inflected grooves ("Me and My Guitar"), and John Lee Hooker-inspired boogies ("Guitar Boogie"). In general, the material here is edgier than his early work, with King's guitar attack sounding particularly fierce and relentless.

Sadly, King died in 1976 at a mere 42 years old, depriving the world of what might have been many more years of recording and performance. Fortunately, compilations like The Shelter Records Years preserve his legacy.

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