In autumn , he and his family moved from Dallas to the South Side of Chicago.
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In King started working in a steel mill. In the same year he married another Texas native, Jessie Burnett. They had seven children.
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In , while employed at a steel mill, the eighteen-year-old King occasionally worked as a sideman with such bands as the Little Sonny Cooper Band and Earl Payton's Blues Cats. In he recorded with the latter for Parrot Records, but these recordings were never released. In he cut his first record as a leader, for El-Bee Records. Both tracks feature the guitar of Robert Lockwood, Jr. The complaint was that King sang too much like B. A newer blues scene, lively with nightclubs and upstart record companies, was burgeoning on the West Side , though.
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The bassist and producer Willie Dixon , during a period of estrangement from Chess in the late s, asked King to come to Cobra Records for a session, but the results have never been heard. Meanwhile, King established himself as perhaps the biggest musical force on the West Side.
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He played along with Magic Sam and reputedly played backing guitar, uncredited, on some of Sam's tracks for Mel London 's Chief and Age labels, [9] though King does not stand out on them. King recorded his debut single for the label on August 26, It was originally released as the B-side of "I Love the Woman".
King's contract with Federal expired in , and his first overseas tour followed in His availability was noticed by the producer and saxophonist King Curtis , who had recorded a cover of "Hide Away," with Cornell Dupree on guitar, in In King hired Jack Calmes as his manager, who secured him an appearance at the Texas Pop Festival, alongside Led Zeppelin and others, [15] and this led to King's signing a recording contract with Shelter Records , a new label established by the rock pianist Leon Russell and the record producer Denny Cordell.
The company treated King as an important artist, flying him to Chicago to the former Chess studios to record the album Getting Ready and providing a lineup of top session musicians, including Russell. King performed alongside the big rock acts of the day, such as Eric Clapton [18] and Grand Funk Railroad whose song " We're an American Band " mentions King in its lyrics , and for a young, mainly white audience, along with the white tour drummer Gary Carnes, for three years, before signing with RSO Records.
It's hard to say why the two singles and two albums on Cotillion didn't sell, unless they were too sophisticated for the rock market and too old-fashioned for the new soul market, but for me, they remain the peak of Freddie King's output. The valley was to come: Russell's intentions were no doubt sincere, and King tried, but at their best -- as in the track "Going Down" -- the recordings were oil-and-water blues-rock, and at their worst, generic '70s blues sludge.
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These recordings are among the few not represented on a new retrospective, Taking Care of Business , which spans much of King's career. Freddie King was living hard by this point, drinking copiously, and always downing a couple of Bloody Marys before stepping on stage because, as he told a journalist, "they've got food in them. He went back up to Dallas and played a gig in New York on Christmas.
But he canceled a show scheduled for the next night, returned to Dallas and went into the hospital. He died, riddled with ulcers and suffering from pancreatitis, on Dec. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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Accessibility links Skip to main content Keyboard shortcuts for audio player. But his most important work has been unavailable until recently. Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email. On December 29, , King died of heart failure. Although his passing was premature -- he was only 42 years old -- Freddie King 's influence could still be heard in blues and rock guitarists decades after his death.
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