Freddie King
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Live Review by Guy Stevens, Record Mirror, 4 April 1964
ON STAGE WITH THE R&B LEGENDS ...
Junior Walker & the Allstars, Freddie King, Jimmy Cliff: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 21 October 1967
IT WAS A 'soul show' at the Saville last Sunday, in the very widest sense of the term. Jimmy Cliff started off, and when he ...
Junior Walker and The All-Stars, Jimmy Cliff, Freddie King: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 21 October 1967
GREAT THUNDERING jackanapes! An all-round good show at the Saville: No goofs, no curtains falling down, great music, a nice audience and even, wonder of ...
Electric Flag; Freddie King; Buddy Guy: Fillmore West, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 10 July 1968
Lots of Room at Fillmore West ...
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, March 1969
New Albums from Jeff Beck, Freddie King et al ...
Freddie King: Freddie Takes a British Cold Back Home
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 22 March 1969
"I DIDN'T have it tonight," said Freddie King after a hard workout at Art Saunders' Wood Green club on Tuesday last week. ...
Payin' Some Dues — Blues at Ann Arbor
Live Review by Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 18 August 1969
"I'd like for them to hear the real things. I don't think yet that most of the white people like my music because it's blues. I ...
Freddie King, Juke Boy Bonner, Jo-Ann Kelly, John Dummer: 100 Club, London
Live Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 15 November 1969
TUESDAY OF last week was Big Blues Night at London's 100 Club where a large, good-humoured crowd was afforded almost non-stop entertainment by the Killing ...
Freddie King: Ash Grove, Los Angeles
Live Review by David Rensin, The Valley State Daily Sundial, 18 December 1970
No one matches F. King ...
Freddie King, Juke Boy Bonner: The Ash Grove, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 1971
Freddie King Performs on Ash Grove Stage ...
B.B. King and Freddie King: Kings Of The Blues
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 11 December 1971
Two bluesmen who have become living legends talk about their careers and the state of the blues today. And B.B. King and Freddie King both ...
Grand Funk Railroad, Freddie King: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 25 December 1972
Grand Funk Railroad Steams Into the Garden at Full Throttle ...
Freddie King: The Cannonball Blows Into Town
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 28 July 1973
WHEN THE Texas Cannonball blows into town it's quite an event, and when he's only in for a couple of days then everybody wants to ...
Freddie King: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Philip Norman, The Times, 2 December 1974
AN IMPRESSIVE crowd awaited Freddie King at the Roundhouse last night, wound about its cylindrical structure or massed on its inhospitable boards for several hours ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 3 May 1975
If you're a living blues master, are you better off dead? ...
Freddie King: New Victoria, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 1 November 1975
A NIGHT TO remember. "It's Blues time, ladies and gentlemen. Please welcome Freddie King." ...
The Crystal Palace Garden Party: E.C. Was Here…But Coryell Was Better
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 7 August 1976
THERE IS an aura of faded grace and decaying dignity about Crystal Palace, set upon the heights of Norwood in South London. Perhaps it stems ...
Freddie King: King of rhythm 'n' blues
Obituary by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 15 January 1977
SOME BLUESMEN are pure country artists, folk musicians really, others are traditional-mixed-with-Chicago, others West Coast, jazz-blues Memphis stylists soul singers and what-have-you. ...
Freddie King and Howard Tate are the Soul of Gospel and Blues
Report by Kirk Silsbee, Pasadena Weekly, 16 February 2006
TOO OFTEN we're reminded that soul – the fundament of black gospel and blues—is fast slipping away from us. Losing Wilson Pickett and Lou Rawls in ...
Retrospective by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, August 2012
NOTE: This is an expanded version of a piece that was in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame's induction program in 2012: the lengthier ...
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