New Orleans, Louisiana —
LITTLE FREDDIE KING “Blues Medicine” (MWR77)
ONE OF THE LAST BLUESMEN OF HIS GENERATION: The unstoppable
Little Freddie King (aka Dr. Bones) has certainly paid his dues. The past 82 years he has survived three shootings, stabbings, a near fatal bike accident that pressed his spine, a stomach ulcer doctors believed would kill him, an accidental electrocution, the hurricane that ripped New Orleans apart in 2005, and now a pandemic. On his voice you can feel the trials of life. The music inside is the dose of BLUES MEDICINE that kept him going. King is a country-style blues musician, links to an era when live music poured from the back-of-town nightclubs that were ubiquitous throughout New Orleans’ African American neighborhoods, fostering a musical subculture of downhome Mississippi blues that developed from the ground up in New Orleans. Artist who is among the last of his kind. This album proves it.
RECOGNITIONS:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close film. 2012 soundtrack Performed in 2 episodes of HBO-TV series Tremé
The Library of Congress inducted song Bus Station Blues 2003 Performed in TV Drama NCIS New Orleans
Performed and appeared in 2019 film Queen & Slim
Awarded Lifetime Achievement in Blues Music by Jus’ Blues Foundation 2019
Charter member New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 1970
Louisiana State Lifetime Achievement for Excellence in the Blues 2010
Inducted Louisiana. Music Hall of Frame 2010
Gambit Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award 2019
Big Easy Award presented Best Blues Performer, 2008, 2009, 2011
Appeared in Lemonade video with Beyoncé
Mississippi Trailer Marker, Mc Comb, Ms. Summit Street. Appearance at the Grammy Museum in Cleveland 2019
Tribeca Film Festival, 2022 New York City, “New Orleans – Music” film
OffBeat Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award 2022
LINKS to Orders CD or Book da KING:
http://facebook.com/little.f.king / www.amazon.com / order@burnsidedistribution.com / www.louisianamusicfactory.com /
‘I’ve been dead so many times’: the life and times of New Orleans’s...
Guardian (excellent Bio)
Manager/Booking: “Wacko” Wade production, LLC / wackowade@yahoo.com
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ABOUT
Little Freddie King
(Monarch of New Orleans Blues)
Freddie Martin, better known as blues guitarist Little Freddie King, is an under recognized giant of country-style blues. In a town filled with funk, R&B and jazz, Little Freddie King is a living link to the rough Delta style that is rare in the Crescent City. The 82-year-old King moved to New Orleans from McComb, Miss. to live with his sister. He hoboed a freight train at fourteen and headed for New Orleans looking for work and seeking his musical interest. Little Freddie found his way upriver to a little community known as Shrewsbury – a black area of town with juke joints lining both sides the street. There he met and performed with legendary musicians like Polka Dot Slim, Boogie Bill Webb, Jimmy Reed, Slim Harpo and Harmonica Williams. Freddie took a job as a longshoreman working alongside his buddy – Slim Harpo. He found steady music gigs in a variety of different taverns, such as the Horseshoe Lounge, The Stereo Lounge and Crockett’s Bar, and the Dew-Drop Inn.
CONTACT
LITTLE FREDDIE KING blues band
Name: Wacko Wade Production, LLC / management (Made Wright Records)
Address: 6751 Louis XIV Street, New Orleans, Louisiana
Email: wackowade@yahoo.com
Phone: +15949147282
LINKS
Facebook: http://facebook.com/little.f.king
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6le2QQiMeBt3GILgHTgGP6
