For those like us who love original, intense, unvarnished blues, Little Freddie King’s ‘Fried Rice & Chicken’ should be on your shelf. Better yet, in your player.
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This Week in Blues Past has some big landmarks, with the loss of a Hill Country icon, the opening of a distinctly American hall of fame, the birth of a Texas blues giant a big bootleg recording, and much more!
There’s a lot that happened this week in the blues… here’s the top ten, with one of the biggest tragedies in music, landmark album releases and more!
One of the “Three Kings of the Blues” will be bestowed the great honor by high-profile fellow Texans who were influenced by his work.
“It’s a bucket list thing,” says Curtis Salgado about playing the King Biscuit Blues Festival for the first time this year. He headlines the main stage Friday night, October 11th. Three-time Grammy winner and Saturday night headliner Bobby Rush also will be on stage with me as well as Anson Funderburgh.
Grammy® winner and perennial King Biscuit favorite-son Bobby Rush is the Saturday night headliner. The Three Kings featuring Albert Castiglia, Chris Cain and D.K. Harrell pay homage to Kings B.B., Albert, and Freddie.
Tab Benoit-produced ‘Cheat The Devil’ is out now!
If there was any doubt that blues has regained its sea legs in the post pandemic, the 36th annual King Biscuit Blues Festival’s lineup simply underlines the obvious.
Today is the birthday of the late Albert King, a man who made a flying-v shaped stamp on music that has influenced countless bluesmen and rockers after him.
The new ‘Elvis’ film had some heavy shoes to fill, and it succeeded on all fronts.