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Gavin’s Blues Heritage Tour – Episode 2 – BJ’s Lounge, New Orleans

This week’s featured artist is Little Freddie King.

Born in New Orleans in 1940, Little Freddie is noted for his style known as ‘gut bucket blues’ — gutsy, lo-fi, stripped down, unpretentious.

Little Freddie’s 1970 recording Harmonica Williams and Little Freddie King is believed to be the first electric blues album recorded in New Orleans.

Today, Little Freddie regularly performs monthly in BJ’s Lounge in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward.

Little Freddie has a new CD out in March 2010 called ‘Gotta Walk With Da King’. It’s a ‘down and dirty straightforward, no-frills CD that captures real juke joint blues on a festival stage. Recorded live at the annual Thirsty Ear Festival in New Mexico’.

Episode 2 – BJ’s Lounge

Gavin’s Blues Heritage Tour

Photo of Little Freddie King by Andrew Huff

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