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King of the Blues [Double CD]

Freddie King Audio CD
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Product details

  • Audio CD (6 Nov 1995)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Double CD
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B000002TZB
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 43,198 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Disc 1:

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Same Old Blues 3:56£0.89
Listen  2. Dust My Broom 3:11£0.89
Listen  3. Worried Life Blues 2:50£0.89
Listen  4. Five Long Years 4:22£0.89
Listen  5. Key To The Highway 3:24£0.89
Listen  6. Going Down 3:21£0.89
Listen  7. Living On The Highway 4:16£0.89
Listen  8. Walking By Myself 2:49£0.89
Listen  9. Tore Down 4:11£0.89
Listen10. Palace Of The King 3:43£0.89
Listen11. Lowdown In Lodi 3:04£0.89
Listen12. Reconsider Baby 3:58£0.89
Listen13. Big Legged Woman 3:58£0.89
Listen14. Me And My Guitar 4:04£0.89
Listen15. I'd Rather Be Blind 3:44£0.89
Listen16. Can't Trust Your Neighbor 3:55£0.89
Listen17. You Was Wrong 3:47£0.89
Listen18. How Many More Years 3:25£0.89
Listen19. Ain't No Sunshine 3:17£0.89
Listen20. The Sky Is Crying 3:26£0.89
Listen21. That's All Right 4:41£0.89


Disc 2:

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Woman Across The River 2:48£0.89
Listen  2. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man 4:49£0.89
Listen  3. The Danger Zone 4:33£0.89
Listen  4. Boogie Man 3:45£0.89
Listen  5. Leave My Woman Alone 3:34£0.89
Listen  6. Just A Little Bit 2:29£0.89
Listen  7. Yonder Wall 2:26£0.89
Listen  8. Help Me Through The Day 4:28£0.89
Listen  9. I'm Ready 3:45£0.89
Listen10. Trouble In Mind 3:43£0.89
Listen11. You Don't Have To Go 2:57£0.89
Listen12. Please Send Me Someone To Love 3:59£0.89
Listen13. Gimme Some Lovin' 4:06£0.89
Listen14. Love Her With A Feeling 5:02£0.89
Listen15. Guitar Boogie (Boogie Fuck) 3:07£0.89
Listen16. It Hurts Me Too 5:31£0.89
Listen17. Something You Got 3:03£0.89
Listen18. Ain't No Big Deal On You 3:31£0.89
Listen19. I Just Want To Make Love To You 6:50£0.89
Listen20. Hide Away 4:47£0.89


Product Description

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Chicago blues guitar firebrand Freddie King did his best and definitive recording for the Federal label in the early '60s, when he helped define the Windy City's hard-edged West Side sound. Sadly, none of that material is included on these two CDs. However, we do get to hear King take a rare turn on acoustic guitar (on Elmore James's "Dust My Broom" and Jimmy Rogers "Walking by Myself") and rip through his late-career signature "Going Down" as well as 38 other tracks. There's also a half-dozen unreleased cuts, including a version of his classic "Hide Away." But too much of this stuff--tunes like John Fogerty's "Lodi," "Ain't No Sunshine," "Gimme Some Lovin'"--seems like a bad producer's notion of what King needed to record to reach a rock audience. Thankfully the strength of his vocals and gutsy guitar carry most of these performances. --Ted Drozdowski

Product Description

(1970-73 'Shelter')(157:02/41) Alle Titel seiner drei LPs für / all cuts from his three albums for 'Shelter', "Getting Ready" (1971), "The Texas Cannonball" (1972), "Woman Across The River" (1973) plus three cuts released for the first time in '89/'91, and another six tracks from 1972 that had not been released before!! / als Bonus drei Titel, die erstmals '89/90 auf CD veröffentlicht wurden und obendrein sechs Stück aus dem Jahr 1972, die zuvor noch nie zu hören waren!! Endlich kann man mit dieser 2-CD das Thema 'Freddie King on Shelter' wohl abhaken!

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Nice 2 CD set 22 May 2003
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Format:Audio CD
This 2 CD includes the majority of Freddie's greatest hits. A must for Blues fans. From the funky 'Woman Across the River' to the excellent acoustic version of 'Dust my Broom'. This compilation shows just why Freddie has been such a great influence on Modern blues - timeless.
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A ROCKING GOOD TIME 3 Sep 2004
By Johnnybluetime TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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The notion that Freddy King's best work was restricted to the '60's is very shortsighted and this collection proves absolutely otherwise. Much of the material is from his time on Leon Russell's shelter label and the shelter choir are very much in evidence and to good effect, helping to give many tracks the exuberance of live performances. Freddy King's playing throughout is hugely exuberant, too, and if you like rocking good blues there's plenty to bring a smile to your face, and believe me it will. tough at times to avoid getting out the air guitar, too. King was a great guitarist, but was often unfavourably compared to B.B. and Albert and was considered by some to be the least talented of the three kings, he wasn't, he was just different. his tunes rocked a little more than B.B.'s, but his solos were as full of soul as the best of Albert's. i saw him at the crystal palace bowl with Clapton and Larry Coryell in '77 and he was without doubt the most flat out enjoyable guitarist of the three of them. he was relaxed and full of fun, perhaps because he was getting some recognition at last. Much of the material on this double cd is from that period. it's the blues, but the kind that gets rid of the blues. Buy this album and play it loud and you'll be glad you did.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Magnificent 30 Dec 2011
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People who know more about FK than I do might say that this is not his best work - in which case I can't wait to hear more, because this is absolutely wonderful. It's up there with the best of the other Kings, BB and Albert, and with the best of any blues artist, for that matter. The guitar playing is awesome, always melodic and downright inspiring; the singing is full throttle; and the songs are fantastic.

This is NOT one of those scratchy old blues records that are easier to appreciate than to enjoy: it's foot-stompin', howlin', sing-alongin', air-guitarin' magic. One of my favourite CDs, full stop.
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