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Little Freddie King (born Fread Eugene Martin,[2][3] July 19, 1940) is an American Delta blues guitarist. His style is based on that of Freddie King, but his approach to country blues is original.[1]

Little Freddie King
King at the French Quarter Festival, 2012
Background information
Birth name	Fread Eugene Martin
Born	(1940-07-19) July 19, 1940 (age 82) McComb, Mississippi, United States
Genres	Electric blues, Texas blues[1]
Occupation(s)	Guitarist, vocalist
Instrument(s)	Guitar, vocals
Years active	Mid 1950s–present
Website	http://www.littlefreddieking.com/?cp=1

Biography

King, a cousin of Lightnin' Hopkins, was born in McComb, Mississippi, and learned to play the guitar from his father. In 1954, at the age of 14, he moved to New Orleans.[1][3] He performed in juke joints with his friends Babe Stovall, Slim Harpo, and Champion Jack Dupree, playing both acoustic and electric guitar.[4]

He recorded the first electric blues album in New Orleans with Harmonica Williams in 1969. In 1976, King undertook a European tour with Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker.[5] His next recording opportunity came in 1996, twenty-seven years after his first, with the release of Swamp Boogie. King's Sing Sang Sung (2000) was recorded live at the Dream Palace in Faubourg Marigny.[1]

King is a charter member of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and has played at the festival for 42 years.[1] He is a member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. He was selected three times as Blues Performer of the Year in New Orleans. He was honored with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker in McComb, Mississippi.[6] In 2007, King co-contributed to the Alabama Slim album, The Mighty Flood.[7]

His 2012 album, Chasing tha Blues, won Best Blues Album at the 12th Annual Independent Music Awards.[8] He appeared in the 2015 documentary film I Am the Blues.[9]

King's most recent album, Jaw Jackin' Blues, was released in 2020.[10]

Discography

• Harmonica Williams and Little Freddie King (1969), Ahura Mazda Records
• Swamp Boogie (1996), Orleans Records
• Sing Sang Sung (live album) (2000), Orleans Records
• FQF Live (2003), WWOZ (Library of Congress Recording)
• You Don't Know What I Know (2005), Fat Possum Records
• Messin' Around tha House (2008), Madewright Records
• Gotta Walk with Da King (2010), Madewright Records
• Jazzfest Live (2011), MunckMix, Inc.
• Back in Vinyl, LP (2011), APO Records
• Chasing tha Blues (2012), Madewright Records
• Messin' Around tha Living Room (2015), Madewright Records
• Fried Rice & Chicken (2018), Orleans Records
• Queen and Slim: The Soundtrack (2019), Motown Records
• Jaw Jackin' Blues (2020), Madewright Records[3][11]

References

External links

• Official website
• The Gutbucket King, multimedia profile of King by Barry Yeoman, published in The New New South.
• Videos and photograph at NME.com
• Little Freddie King at IMDb
• Works by or about Little Freddie King in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• NAMM Oral History Interview March 19, 2015

На других языках

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[ru] Кинг, Литтл Фредди

Литтл Фредди Кинг (настоящее имя Фрид Юджин Мартин (англ. Fread Eugene Martin[1][2]); 19 июля 1940, МакКомб  (англ.) (рус., Миссисипи) — американский дельта-блюз гитарист. Его стиль сложился во многом под влиянием Фредди Кинга, хотя в направлении кантри-блюзовой музыки подход Литтла признается полностью оригинальным[3].

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