Little Freddie King - Fried Rice & Chicken (2018)

The best of the Orleans years recorded in New Orleans 1994 & 1998. Track one Cleo's Back was featured in the the 2011 Tom Hanks movie Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close which was nominated for a Best Picture of the Year. Track 2 Mean Little Woman was featured in the HBO series Treme.

From Little Freddie King's first thumb-strummed rhythm to his deep pocket leeds…Subtle yet deep-reaching, King locks into the pulse in that irresistible fashion it seems musicians only learn from spending years in New Orleans….King was Born in McComb , Mississippi in 1940 his father was a blues guitarist named Jesse James Martin …Moved to New Orleans at age 17.. Is an anual attraction at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and has toured Europe with Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker.

"It's the same sound that fired the work of Muddy Waters, Jimmy Read,and Freddie's cousin, the great Lightin' Hopkins… this is blues Mississippi style." - Blues Acces Magazine

"King's fantastically sleazy pawn shop leads drip all over songs ..everything he wants to tell you comes out in that sound with titles like Bad Chicken..sign post on the road to wino hell and blues heaven." - Off Beat Magazine

Track List:
01. Cleos Back
02. Mean Little Woman
03. The Great Chinese
04. What'd I Say
05. Kinky Cotton Fields
06. I Use To Be Down
07. Sing Sang Sung
08. Do She Ever Think Of Me
09. Hide Away (3:51)
10. Honest I Do
11. Bad Chicken

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