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Recorded At Blue Heaven Studios During Blues Masters at the Crossroads 2011!
200g Vinyl Cut By Kevin Gray & Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
These direct-to-disc releases, recorded in the church sanctuary of Blue Heaven Studios, are so fresh and pure Talk about up to audiophile standards! The immediacy, the dynamics - slam and delicacy alike - are just so startlingly real. There's nothing lost. It's positively lifelike.
If you want the real blues, baby, you'd better call Little Freddie King. Normally only seen once a month at B.J.'s, a lounge located in the lowest bowels of New Orleans' Ninth Ward, where he shares floor space with a pool table and various carpet remnants, McComb, Mississippi's ambassador of the blues has been working out of the Crescent City for decades.
The minute Freddie straps on his guitar and strikes up his gnarled chord and drummer "Wacko" Wade makes his presence known with a definitive cymbal crash, this lean, mean, swampy aggregation of gut-bucket wild men transforms the poshest of venues into a back-o-town beer joint.
Born in McComb, Mississippi, in 1940, Fred Martin grew up playing alongside his blues guitar-picking father, then rode the rails to New Orleans during the early fifties where he crossed paths with itinerant South Louisiana blues men such as Polka Dot Slim and Boogie Bill Webb, whose unique country and urban blues styles would influence his own. Honing his guitar chops at notorious joints like the Bucket of Blood (which he later immortalized in song), he jammed and gigged with Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker and also played bass for Freddie King during one of the guitarist's stints in New Orleans. People began comparing the two musicians' styles, hence Martin's stage name. While well-versed in a variety of styles, nowadays, Little Freddie sounds a lot more like his cousin Lightnin' Hopkins - albeit after a three-day corn liquor bender.
Features:
From 2011 Direct To Disc Sessions
200g Vinyl
Cut by Kevin Gray
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
Recorded at Blue Heaven Studios
Selections:
Side A:
1. Can't Do Nothing Babe
2. KingHead Shuffle
3. Dig A Hole
Side B:
1. Born Dead
2. CrackHo Flo
3. Goin' Out Da Mountain
Recorded At Blue Heaven Studios During Blues Masters at the Crossroads 2011!
200g Vinyl Cut By Kevin Gray & Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
These direct-to-disc releases, recorded in the church sanctuary of Blue Heaven Studios, are so fresh and pure Talk about up to audiophile standards! The immediacy, the dynamics - slam and delicacy alike - are just so startlingly real. There's nothing lost. It's positively lifelike.
If you want the real blues, baby, you'd better call Little Freddie King. Normally only seen once a month at B.J.'s, a lounge located in the lowest bowels of New Orleans' Ninth Ward, where he shares floor space with a pool table and various carpet remnants, McComb, Mississippi's ambassador of the blues has been working out of the Crescent City for decades.
The minute Freddie straps on his guitar and strikes up his gnarled chord and drummer "Wacko" Wade makes his presence known with a definitive cymbal crash, this lean, mean, swampy aggregation of gut-bucket wild men transforms the poshest of venues into a back-o-town beer joint.
Born in McComb, Mississippi, in 1940, Fred Martin grew up playing alongside his blues guitar-picking father, then rode the rails to New Orleans during the early fifties where he crossed paths with itinerant South Louisiana blues men such as Polka Dot Slim and Boogie Bill Webb, whose unique country and urban blues styles would influence his own. Honing his guitar chops at notorious joints like the Bucket of Blood (which he later immortalized in song), he jammed and gigged with Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker and also played bass for Freddie King during one of the guitarist's stints in New Orleans. People began comparing the two musicians' styles, hence Martin's stage name. While well-versed in a variety of styles, nowadays, Little Freddie sounds a lot more like his cousin Lightnin' Hopkins - albeit after a three-day corn liquor bender.
Features:
From 2011 Direct To Disc Sessions
200g Vinyl
Cut by Kevin Gray
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
Recorded at Blue Heaven Studios
Selections:
Side A:
1. Can't Do Nothing Babe
2. KingHead Shuffle
3. Dig A Hole
Side B:
1. Born Dead
2. CrackHo Flo
3. Goin' Out Da Mountain
