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Freddie King: Bossa Nova and the Blues

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Label: King Records
Released: 1962
Time:
 36:37
Category: Blues
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.freddiekingsite.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] (I'd Love To) Make Love To You - 2:25
[2] You're Barkin' Up The Wrong Tree - 2:46
[3] Look Ma, I'm Cryin' - 3:13
[4] It Hurts To Be In Love - 2:38
[5] You Walked In - 2:44
[6] The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist - 2:52
[7] Is My Baby Mad At Me - 2:26
[8] Someday, After Awhile (You'll Be Sorry) - 2:50
[9] One Hundred Years - 2:25
[10] Bossa Nova Blues - 2:48
[11] The Welfare (Turns Its Back On You) - 2:42
[12] Walk Down That Ailse (Honey Chile) - 2:18

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Freddie King - Vocals, Guitar

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1962 LP King Records 821



One of the Three Kings of blues guitar along with B.B. and Albert, Texas-born Freddy (Freddie) King influenced everyone from Eric Clapton and Peter Green in the UK to Jerry Garcia and Stevie Ray Vaughan in the States. But even his staying up all night playing poker with Grand Funk wasn’t enough to prevent his seminal King/Federal albums from staying out of print on vinyl for decades — until Sundazed came to the rescue. The reissue campaign that began with meticulously mastered editions of King classics Let’s Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King, Freddy King Gives You a Bonanza of Instrumentals, and Freddy King Goes Surfin’ continues with his rare 1963 offering, Bossa Nova and Blues. In the tradition of his surfing album, which wasn’t really surf, Bossa Nova and Blues had no bossa nova — but the advertising was at least half true, and hey, there were two cuts that had “bossa nova” in the title. Though King was best known for blues instrumentals, “Bossa Nova Blues” and “The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist” (dig the dance craze threesome) were actually the only two instrumentals on an album otherwise dedicated to bluesy ballads. But of course, Freddie made it work — churning out bonafide classics like the karmic “Someday, After A While (You’ll Be Sorry)” (later covered by John Mayall and the Blues Breakers on A Hard Road, also reissued on Sundazed mono CD/LP), the emotive “The Welfare (Turns Its Back on You),” the soulful “It Hurts to Be In Love,” and the more uptempo, New Orleans-flavored “You’re Barkin’ Up the Wrong Tree.”

This Sundazed mono edition reproduces the original artwork and presents the original 12-song LP on 180 gram vinyl mastered from the original analog reels and pressed at Record Technology Inc.

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Freddy King – a blazing, masterful blues guitarist, a gorgeous, heartbreaking singer, and a huge influence on Eric Clapton, Jimmy Reed and Stevie Ray Vaughn, and many other performers – made his original and greatest recordings for Cincinnati’s King/ Federal labels between 1960 and 1966. This places him at the very end of the »golden age« of postwar, electric-guitar-band blues styles – that is, of the period, from the late ’40s to the late ’60s, when this music was principally a popular black music form, played by black musicians for black audiences.

One of the things that sets this Texas-born, Chicago-trained master apart from other great blues singer-guitarists of the postwar period is his use of the electric guitar, not only to punctuate his singing with answering riffs and solo choruses, but to take the spotlight on its own in a large body of infectious, driving, distinctive, and brilliant instrumental tunes.

Freddy King »Sings and »Bossa Nova And Blues« are beautiful examples of his style in the 0. From the B. B. King school, but with his own searing style of singing and playing, it’s a must for fans of modern blues. Every one of these editions contains 6 bonus tracks taken from his second instrumental album »Let’s Hide Away And Dance Away«, so you can buy two and get three albums indeed!

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Bossa nova and blues? Turns out they're a surprisingly great combination – but not in a mode that's really the more mainstream conception of either – and instead more of that mix of Brazilian rhythms and soul you'd find in early 60s work by The Drifters! The record's a real standout in Freddie King's years at King – not just for the unusual rhythmic style, but also because he sings a fair bit – in this earnest, soulful mode that's a wonderful match for his gritty guitar solos throughout. Production is almost more in a New Orleans or New York indie soul mode than the usual King session of the time – and titles include "I'd Love To Make Love To You", "Bossa Nova Blues", "The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist", "You Walked In", "One Hundred Years", and "Walk Down That Aisle". (Beautiful heavy vinyl mono pressing – just like an original King Records version!)

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