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Ultimate Collection by: Freddie King List Price: $13.98 CD-Charts Price: $9.97 You Save: $4.01 (29%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0731452090928 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Hip-O Records Manufacturer: Hip-O Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Hip-O Records Release Date: April 10, 2001 Studio: Hip-O Records Sales Rank: 17684 MPN: 520909 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Great Freddie King Collection!I had been looking for a good compilation of Freddie's music for a while. This one does the trick! This really is the best of his earlier work! Rating:  - This is where it began!Freddie King was a master blues player. If you want to know where a lot of Clapton licks came from, listen to this guy. He was the original. The three Kings, Freddie, Albert and BB are the original masters. Unfortunately Freddie has been gone a lot of years but his legacy continues on. If you are into Blues, buy this CD. John Rating: - Very GoodThis is the best single disc Freddie King Collection on the market, considering that Hideaway: The best of Freddie King is out of print. Two or three selections are doubtful (Dust my broom and Sugar sweet), but mostly it is really good, combining his trademark instrumentals (Hideaway, The Stumble, etc) with wocal tracks. Freddie's sharp, melodic and intense guitar playing influenced a lot white blues guitarists - most obviously - at least to my ears - Eric Clapton on the John Mayall's Bluesbrakers with Eric Clapton album. If you like blues, or just great guitar playing (and there's some fine singing from Freddie as well), get this record. Rating: - Classic melodic, poppy bluesThey say timing is everything, and in Freddie King's case, that certainly was true. His early hits, especially the classic instrumentals, "Hide Away" and "San-Ho-Zay," came out in 1960 and '61, at precisely the right moment for his career to intersect with the SoCal surf scene (which also centered on instrumental numbers) and the nascent British blues revival, which was ever eager to find American bluesmen to latch onto and laud. Here, white kids on both sides of the Atlantic had a guy who bridged the gap between raw authenticity and pop polish, setting the standard for the zilllion-and-one future Fendermen who sought to sharpen their guitar chops. Fittingly, King cracked into the US Top 40 while also picking up flocks of converts (such as ... Read More: Rating: - Freddie King is a blues masterI don't have this actual CD, but I have most of the songs that are on it from other collections and they are all great. This is a great collection of Freddie King's work from his earliest recordings (1960's "Have You Ever Loved A Woman") to his later Shelter records material (1969's "Palace of the King" and "Going Down"). If you like blues guitar, then at least one Freddie King CD should be in your collection. He influenced countless guitarists, particularly Eric Clapton. This is a good place to start if you're new to this blues guitar master. |
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