Little Freddie King
SING SANG SUNG
Orleans Records – 2511
Recorded in 2000
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Right from the opening chords of the first cut of the scratchy cheap sounding guitar your ears begin to perk up. This is a live recording done at The Dream Palace in New Orleans and it is evident from the beginning that this raw sound has to be intentional because the technology is so far advanced from the 50’s, which is when it sounds like it was recorded, that even el cheapo equipment couldn’t sound this raw. However this sound is the Little Freddie King sound, raw, dirty and laid out in the gutter. His shows are raucous and true to who he is. He works as a body and fender man, rides a bicycle to work and escapes his run down apartment on the weekends to play in some cheap saloon. He is one of the last great country blues players, and doesn’t get the recognition that the other Kings (B.B., Albert, and Freddie) get. But maybe for that reason his pawnshop guitar rings with the truth of who he is. He is real and lives the music he plays. It comes straight from his heart. At times his unfiltered emotion can rip right into you and either scare the hell out of you, or just make you cry. Listen to Three O’Clock Blues, the great Riley B. King/Jules Taub tune that is a signature of B. B. King, you tell me which version has more exposed gripping emotion. I love B.B.’s version but for raw emotion this is where you come.
Produced by Carlos Dita
Songs, times, writers
1 Sing Sang Sung – 3:07 – Freddie Martin
2 Do She Ever Think Of Me – 3:12 – Freddie Martin
3 Soul Twist – 2:29 – Curtis Ousley
4 If You Want To Know The Blues You Got To Walk In My Shoes –6:20 Freddie Martin/Anthony Anderson
5 Bad Chicken – 3:32 – Freddie Martin
6 Hobo Blues – 3:32 – Bernard Besman/John Lee Hooker
7 Hide Away – 3:50 – Freddie King/Sonny Thompson
8 Bucket Of Blood – 7:32 – Freddie Martin
9 Rocky Mountain – 6:45 – Lightnin’ Hopkins
10 Honest I Do – 4:35 – Ewart G. Abner/Jimmy Reed
11 Three O’clock Blues – 5:16 – Riley B. King/ Jules Taub
Musicians
Little Freddie Kind – guitar and vocal
Wacko Wade Wright – drums
Anthony Anderson – bass
Bobby Lewis DiTullio – harmonica