Freddie King – My Feeling For The Blues (Mono)
Regular price
€95,00
Shipping calculated at checkout.
VAT included in price for European Union countries, may be adjusted based on delivery country at check out.
Shipping is free within European Union above 99€ purchase up to 50kg, except for pre-owned products and specific territories. Shipping costs on quote above 50kg – quote request to be send to : contact@audiosoundmusic.com. No return policy for countries outside of European Union
Rarity - Sealed
Vocals, Lead Guitar – Freddie King
Bass – Jerry Jemmott
Drums – Kenneth Rice
Piano – George Stubbs
Rhythm Guitar – Cornell Dupree
Tenor Saxophone – Frank Wess, George Coleman
Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Trevor Lawrence, Willie Bridges
Trumpet – Ernie Royal, Martin Banks
Arranged by Donnie Hathaway (A1 to B3, B5-6), King Curtis (B4)
Written by E. James (A1), Freddie King (A2, B6), Riley B. King (A3), Joe Josea (A3), T-Bone Walker (A4), Joe Thomas (A5), Willie Mabon (A5), Ray Charles (B1), Jimmy Witherspoon (B2), Matcher James Reed (B3), B. B. King (B4), Jules Taub (B4), Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones (B5), Curtis Ousley (B6)
1 LP, Standard sleeve
Limited Edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Mono
Studio
Record Press : Quality Record Pressings
Label : VMP - Vinyl Me Please, Classics series
Original Label : Cotillion
Recorded in 1979 at Atlantic Studios
Engineered by Jerome Gasper, Bill Arlt
Produced by King Curtis
Lacquer cut by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound
Originally released in 1970
Reissued in 2021
Tracks :
Tracks :
Side A
- Yonder Wall
- Stumble
- I Wonder Why
- Stormy Monday
- I Don't Know
Side B
- What'd I Say
- Ain't Nobody's Business What We Do
- You Don't Have To Go
- Woke Up This Morning
- Things I Used To Do
- My Feeling For The Blues
Reviews:
"The mid to late Sixties was a strange and difficult time for many Blues men – most were without contracts, forgotten and under-appreciated - then the Blues boom happened (particularly in the UK) and many had their careers kick-started again. Freddie King was no exception.
His last album had been for Federal in 1964, but with a new lease of life on the mighty Atlantic label, he produced two much revered LPs in rapid succession. The first was “Freddie King Is A Blues Master” released in 1969 on SD 9004 and then this peach - “My Feeling For The Blues” on Cotillion SD 9016 released in early 1970.
Ace saxophonist KING CURTIS produced the record - with all arrangements by Atlantic’s newest soul protégé DONNY HATHAWAY (except “Woke Up This Morning” which was Arranged by King Curtis).
Side 1 opens with the down and dirty “Yonder Wall” which not surprisingly for the date it was recorded name-checks men coming home from the Vietnam War. It’s followed by a cracking Freddie King instrumental called “The Stumble” – the kind of cool boppin’ blues tune that turns up on those hip compilations you read about. “I Wonder Why” and “Stormy Monday” (BB King and Jimmy Witherspoon covers) get the brassy treatment like “Yonder Wall” to great effect, while Side 1 ends with a wonderful take on Willie Mabon’s “I Don’t Know” with the bass really forward and funky in the mix.
Side 2 opens with a version of Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say” that builds like the Atlantic original did, which is followed by one of my favourites, a fabulous soulful take on Jimmy Witherspoon’s standard “Ain’t Nobody’s Business What We Do” (lyrics above). It’s followed by a superb harmonica driven shuffle, a cover of Jimmy Reed’s “You Don’t Have To Go” which features Freddie giving it some funky blues – such a cool number. The pace is then expertly changed to another “…my baby is gone…” song, a cover of B.B. King’s “Woke Up This Morning” with punchy brass fills (you can hear Hathaway’s soulfulness in a lot of the arrangements).
Born in 1934, Freddie King suffered a heart attack at a concert in December 1976 and passed away two days later. Name-checked by hosts of luminaries like Eric Clapton and Peter Green, on hearing this totally forgotten peach of an album, it’s easy to see why this bluesman is remembered with such affection.” Sounds Good, Looks Good Review
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.69 / 5