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Friday, 27 January 2006 06:27 |
Little Freddie King
Walkin with Freddie
Music Maker Relief Foundation, 2003
By John Sinclair
Little Freddie King is one of New Orleans great hidden musical treasures and one of the most beautiful cats one will ever meet to boot. A native of McComb, Mississippi birthplace of Bo Diddley where he took up with the blues at an early age, Freddie's been a persistent presence in the Crescent City ever since before there was even a Jazz & Heritage Festival, because he's played at every one.
Little Freddie's music is just as raw as his Mississippi roots, yet always deeply imbued with the warmth and sparkle of his very personality, and he has a wonderful knack for reworking classic modern blues compositions into completely personal permutations of these familiar themes.
Walkin with Freddie presents the one and only Little Freddie King in the excellent company of his working ensemble, anchored by the irrepressible Wacko Wade on drums and topped off by the attentive harmonica of Bobby Lewis.
They sway their way through a prototypical Little Freddie program of wry, strictly idiosyncratic originals ( Tough Frog to Swallow, Bad Bad News ), a couple of skewed instrumentals and a series of subtly twisted tributes to some of Freddie's favorite composers, here including Frankie Lee Sims, Howlin Wolf, Albert King, Little Willie Littlefield and the great Guitar Slim.
This is the pure D blues from the land where the blues began by way of the Home of the Blues, good musical fun from way down behind the sun. If you ve heard Freddie's albums for Orleans Records, Swamp Boogie and Sing, Sang, Sung, you ll be overjoyed to hear that Walkin with Freddie is another unpretentious opus of the exact same caliber of excellence and a highly entertaining outing you re bound to enjoy for years and years to come.
Detroit
September 1, 2003
(c) 2003 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.
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