As a new Freddie King fan I have begun acquiring some of his music. To date, I have bookends of his career: Let’s Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King which was released the year I was born, 1961 and Burglar released in 1974 two years before Freddie’s death and the beginning of my teenage years. I also enjoy the compilation album, Freddie King, Ultimate Collection.
Let’s Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King The album Let’s Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King is an all instrumental album and includes his breakout hit, “Hide Away”. Many of these tunes are pretty catchy, and “San-Ho-Zay” is another on the album that I especially like.
Track listing:
Hide Away – 2:43
Butterscotch – 3:04
Sen-Sa-Shun – 2:54
Side Tracked – 3:07
The Stumble – 3:14
Wash Out – 2:38
San-Ho-Zay – 2:40
Just Pickin’ – 2:33
Heads Up – 2:33
In the Open – 3:11
Out Front – 2:40
Swooshy – 2:19
Musicians:
Fred Jordan – guitar, rhythm guitar
Freddie King – guitar, vocals
Phillip Paul – drums
Gene Reid – saxophone
Clifford Scott – saxophone
Sonny Thompson – piano
Willis Williams – bass guitar
Burglar When Burglar was recorded, Freddie had left Shelter Records and signed with RSO Records based in the UK due to persuasion from his lifelong fan, Eric Clapton. As the credits in the liner notes indicate this was a massive production which included some of the most prominent musicians of the time beginning with Slowhand himself plus JJ Cale, Issac Hayes and George Terry. The sound of Burglar could be described as Blues meets Funk.
Track listing:
Pack It Up – 4:10
My Credit Didn’t Go Through – 4:09
I Got the Same Old Blues – 3:27
Only Getting Second Best – 3:47
Texas Flyer – 3:48
Pulp Wood – 3:13
She’s a Burglar – 3:51
Sugar Sweet – 3:50
I Had a Dream – 5:02
Come On (Let the Good Times Roll) – 3:32
Credits:*
Artist / Credit
P. Arnold Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Patrick Arnold Vocals (Background)
Brian Auger Guest Artist, Organ
Bud Beadle Sax (Baritone)
Misty Browning Vocals, Vocals (Background)
J. Cale Composer
Ron Carthy Main Personnel, Trumpet
Gonzalez Chandler Composer
Eric Clapton Guest Artist, Guitar, Main Personnel
Roy Davies Clavinet, Composer, Keyboards, Main Personnel, Organ, Piano, Piano (Electric)
Robert Davis Composer
Bob Defrin Art Direction
Roger Dopson Liner Notes
Tom Dowd Producer
Mick Eve Saxophone
Mick Eves Sax (Tenor)
Steve Ferrone Cabassa, Composer, Drums, Main Personnel
The Gonzales Horn Section Arranger, Horn, Horn Arrangements
Steve Gregory Horn Arrangements, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Barry Hammond Engineer
DeLisle Harper Bass, Composer, Percussion
Isaac Hayes Composer
Richie Hayward Composer
Gary “Gazza” Johnson Composer
Earl King Composer
Freddie King Composer, Guitar, Main Personnel, Primary Artist, Vocals
Steve Klein Engineer, Remix Assistant
Slick Lawson Photography
Mel London Composer
Chris Mercer Horn Arrangements, Sax (Tenor)
Jamie Oldaker Drums
Peter Palombi Cover Illustration, Illustrations
Greg Perry Composer
David Porter Composer
Carl Radle Bass
Jerry Ragovoy Composer
Dick Sims Keyboards, Organ
Bobby Tench Composer, Guitar
George Terry Guitar
Mike Vernon Audio Production, Composer, Drums, Percussion, Producer, Remastering, Remixing
Donnie Vie Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Pete Wingfield Clavinet, Composer, Keyboards, Piano, Piano (Electric)
*(reposted from the album summary on Allmusic.com)
Excuse me, but, what the hell kind of country are we living in now? Have we become the USSR? Communism — where the state (aka YouTube) determines what you can or cannot say?
United States Constitution, Bill of Rights:
Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Just learned that YouTube removed the interview of Drs. Dan Erickson & Artin Massihi that was included in my last post titled, “Must See: Dr Dan Erickson & Dr Artin Massihi – We’re Speaking Up – Full Video“! These guys are not subversives! They are medical doctors discussing DATA and YouTube deleted them? WTF! To everybody out there: Watch this video. Download it. Distribute it. Send it to the White House. Let the DOJ know what YouTube has done. As Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I thought I’d share with you that I successfully built a Guitar ¼ inch Adapter Cable for Roland GK 13-Pin connections! This is a cable that allows you to connect a guitar or other instrument with a ¼ inch output (bass, ukulele, etc.) to the Roland GR-55 guitar synthesizer. If you are on a gig using the Roland GR-55 the usefulness of this is that if you don’t have another amplifier and effects, you can access the Roland COSM effects and amp models within the GR-55 and use the same sound reinforcement system that the GR is connected to.
Below is a copy of my wiring diagram that was adapted from a similar diagram posted on Vguitarforums.com by “Elantric”. As the diagram indicates, the normal guitar (or other instrument) signal is transmitted to the GR-55 via pin 7 in the 13 pin plug. A voltage divider has been added to reduce the GR-55’s +7 vdc to +5 vdc to feed pin 8 which signals the GR-55 that a GK pickup’s volume control is set to 10. I tested it and, yes, it works!
Between the three “Kings”, Albert, BB and Freddie, it was Freddie who had the hardest driving, most intense sound.Much of his intensity came from the way he played:He picked with his fingers, using a plastic thumb pick along with a metal index-finger pick with a large amp cranked to the max.Although he was a good singer and had some big hits including vocals, especially, “Have You Ever Loved a Woman”, it was with his instrumentals that, I think, set him apart from the other Kings.His biggest instrumental, which most people have probably heard and recognize, is “Hideaway”.But there were many other instrumentals penned by Freddie including “The Stumble”, “Sen-Sa- Shun”, “San-Ho-Zay”, “Side Tracked”, and “In the Open”.
I will be talking about some of these tunes in more detail, especially, “Hideaway” and “San-Ho-Zay”.
According to his bio on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, in the early days Freddie played a gold-top Les Paul through a Gibson GA-40 amplifier.
But later, and through the rest of his career he was seen playing a variety of Gibson semi-hollow body guitars such as the ES-335 and ES-345 through huge Fender Quad Reverb amps.
Another point that jumped out at me is that Freddie was influenced by the biggest names in the Chicago blues scene like Howlin’ Wolf, per his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame bio, “Waters, guitarists Eddie Taylor, Jimmy Rogers, and Robert Lockwood Jr., and harmonica virtuoso Little Walter were also tutoring the brawny youngster on the secrets of the sounds and the streets of the South Side.”We all take the creativity provided by those who have gone before us, embrace it, and on the other side make it something uniquely our own.
