If you've spent any time in a Texas blues club, you've heard Freddie King, whose influence goes beyond notes, style and material. "The Texas Cannonball" is there in the stinging leads that pierce ...
Three minute, 12-bar, Delta-style blues remain the staple of guitarist and vocalist 84-year old Little Freddie King. Born in Mississippi and the cousin of the famed Lightnin’ Hopkins, King’s honest ...
Little Freddie King’s October calendar is packed. Because the 81-year-old bluesman has so many gigs, his drummer and manager, “Wacko” Wade Wright, is worried about overdoing it. “Freddie ain’t no ...
He plays hypnotic, repetitive, sometimes atonal blues on a pawnshop guitar. His songs are simple, loose, unstructured, cantankerous, and happily unenlightened when it comes to the fairer sex. And his ...
Wade "Wacko" Wright had been Little Freddie King's right hand man for about two dozen years when he opened his email inbox one day in 2016 with an offer for what he thought was a lemonade commercial.
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