LITTLE FREDDIE KING
We first cottoned onto Fread Martin, a.k.a. Little Freddie King, a few years back when he released his GREAT "You Don't Know What I Know" disc for Fat Possum, the great Mississippi label dedicated to overlooked older bluesmen who play gutsy, lo-fi blues. A hard-living character who has been playing the rural electric blues of his native Mississippi in the lowest bowels of NEW ORLEANS' now-devastated Ninth Ward for years, King and his band have a penchant for hard-hitting, minimalist chords and lyrics, delivered by a cracked, heavily lived-in voice. Much of King's material has an old-style R&B feel, but he is at his most charming when he strips it down to just guitar and vocals as depicted on his 2008 and new 2010 MadeWright Records release.

2010 NEW RELEASE "GOTTA WALK WITH DA KING"

BURNSIDE DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION - INTERNATIONAL AND U.S.  GOTTA WALK WITH DA KING ---- is a down and dirty straight forward, no-frills CD that captures real juke joint blues on a festival stage. Recorded LIVE at the Annual Thirsty Ear Festival in New Mexico, you can feel the soul of Freddie's music. 

MADEWRIGHT RECORDS (indie label)

Keith Spera's, Music Writer
Top 10 favorite CDs from 2008
(Times Picayune, Music Writer)
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JPF Nominee for 09 Blues Album of the Year
JPF Nominee for 09 Song of the Year
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