Freddie King, Have You Ever Loved a Woman

YouTube ^ | 1974?? | Freddie King

[Yardstick]

Freddie King performing the classic Have You Ever Loved a Woman sometime in the early to mid '70s.

[Yardstick]

Holy cow! Just bumped into this on YouTube and thought it was worthy of bringing to FR's attention. Freddie King laying down the law.

[Yardstick]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE9H1bW-zQ4

[SaveFerris]

Taking a little listen - love some mean-played blues guitar.

Looks like a Lucille model Gibson there.

I’ll post one in a few minutes (on this thread).

[SaveFerris]

Man the days before rap saw some really, really fine black musicians. I know they’re still out there - we just don’t get the good stuff because of all the garbage.

Accidentally ran across this on the radio one night - a show I don’t normally listen to. But I’ve found a couple of gems - I hope you enjoy them (and hope others do, too)

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The Son Seals Blues Band ~ “Mother In-Law Blues”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7RnwxfUWdA

Jimmy Dawkins - “Chitlins Con Carne”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp2cZQjiylw

[Yardstick]

Okay, I’m doing the YouTube thing where one video leads to another.

Yall gotta listen to Albert Collins destroying the universe with his Telecaster while wearing a light blue golf shirt. This looks like early ‘80s to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6LbWWqX-g

Love the way he ends the song with the salute.

[shibumi]

A little different flavor, more laid back than Freddie, but definitely a “King” nonetheless...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEHx5jy50w4

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[Yardstick]

Both good. Killer tone in the second one.

[SaveFerris]

I think I’ve heard a better version, BION, on the radio. Maybe on the first one, too.

I hope to call in and ask what version he played. One of these nights.....no pun intended.

[shibumi]

Terrible tone, grainy video...
~but~

It’s a Muddy Winter...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6jXIaDXcYI

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[Yardstick]

Oh yeah, love me some Albert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g23A3cRlE

I’ve studied hours upon hours of Albert King doing his thing.

[Yardstick]

Yeah, pretty good. It’s from that weird period probably late ‘70s. That was a weird time for blues music and got even weirder in the ‘80s. It was around that time that blues realized it was a legacy art form. A few more good albums came out and then that was the end of it.

[shibumi]

It was Newport Jazz Fest at Saratoga, 1977.

[FrankR]

Freddie King has been around for a long time. When I first started playing guitar back in the 50’s I learn King’s “Hideaway”, a big, instrumental hit for him them. I’ve got most of his albums, with “San-Ho-Zay”, and other instrumentals.

King was the (blues) guitar player’s, “guitar player”. He was a much, much, better picker than B.B. King. BB had one or two signature licks, but, that’s it.

Freddie achieved his tone by using a metal pick.

I like most all of his stuff.

[Dr. Sivana]

Man the days before rap saw some really, really fine black musicians.

Yes! We have two adopted black children, and I am trying hard to keep them away from that stuff, and make fun of it when it comes into our lives (car pulling up next to us). Even movies that are otherwise okay have that stuff as the closing theme or elsewhere.

I am filling the void by exposing them to some of those many fine musicians (in addition to good music in general). Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Domino, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr. and even some of the light pop/disco groups like the Sylvers (they find the '70s outfits/afros hilarious!) and Gladys Knight and the Pips. I'm just staring my nine year old son out on the clarinet. It's portable, not too loud, and unused in Rap/Hip-Hop.

[Yardstick]

He was one of my main influences when I was learning to play in the ‘80s. My big three are him, Albert King, and Albert Collins. Clapton pays tribute to Freddie in his cover of Hideaway on that first Mayall Album.

[Skooz]

Freddie FREAKING King.

In the Book of Electric Blues, he’s chapter one.

[VietVet876]

It’s a Gibson ES 355. The Lucille has no F holes but the same Varitone circuitry and is a bit more feedback resistant.

[SaveFerris]

Yeah, I was thinking it was a 355 with that selector switch but didn’t remember about the f-holes. Thanks.