Little Freddie King’s reign isn’t over yet. The 85-year-old New Orleans blues guitarist and singer played the first Jazz Fest in 1970 and has played nearly every one since. But after a September ...
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 ...
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 ...