Freddie King Is A Blues Master (Mono) Freddie King

• 1Play It Cool03:49
• 2That Will Never Do02:25
• 3It's Too Late, She's Gone02:25
• 4Blue Shadows03:42
• 5Today I Sing The Blues04:00
• 6Get Out Of My Life, Woman03:36
• 7Hideaway02:33
• 8Funky02:29
• 9Hot Tomato02:50
• 10Wide Open03:06
• 11Sweet Thing02:33
• 12Let Me Down Easy03:02
• Total Runtime36:30

Info for Freddie King Is A Blues Master (Mono)

This week’s Mono Monday release is a 1969 album from a certified blues master. Well, actually, we didn’t ask to see his certificate of mastery, but we respect Freddie King enough to know that he wouldn’t release an album entitled Freddie King is a Blues Master if he couldn’t back it up that kind of bold claim. Also, in case this piece happens to be your introduction to the album in question, allow us to assure you that we’ve heard it, and there’s definitely no case of false advertising in play.

By the time he released Blues Master, King – who died in 1976 at a far-too-young 42 years of age – already had a well-established history of describing his activities in his album titles. His debut LP was entitled Freddie King Sings, and in 1965 he offered up Freddie King Sings Again; between those two releases, he asked of potential buyers Let's Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King (1961), then hit the waves in 1963 with Freddie King Goes Surfin’.

'...King's unforced singing has rarely been captured so happily on record before and his playing is nonpareil all the way through....a superb album of modern blues...performed with taste, vitality, and above all imagination...' (Rolling Stone)

Freddie King, vocals, guitar
Billy Butler, guitar
Willie Bridges, saxophone
King Curtis, saxophone
David Newman, saxophone
Joe Newman, trumpet
Melvin Lastie, trumpet
Martin Banks, trumpet
Norman Pride, drums

Recorded in 1969 at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York City, NY.
Engineered by Adrian Barber
Produced by King Curtis

Digitally remastered

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