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5-CD Boxed Set, LP-size, with 80-page hardcover book, 64 tracks. Playing time: 363:47 minutes.... more

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Freddie King: Texas Flyer, 1974-1976 (5-CD)

5-CD Boxed Set, LP-size, with 80-page hardcover book, 64 tracks. Playing time: 363:47 minutes.

Completes the Freddie King story, with all of his 1974-75 RSO studio recordings (some with label-mate Eric Clapton) and four jam-packed discs of sizzling mid-'70s live performances. Bear Family's first Freddie King box was one of our best-selling, best-reviewed sets EVER! This is the exciting sequel. Contains Freddie King's acclaimed 'Burglar' album, produced in England by Mike Vernon, as well as rarities and an unreleased version of That's All Right. Most of the riveting live performances on this immense box are previously unreleased, and all are beautifully recorded in crisp, clear stereo. No bootleg quality sound here! Beautifully designed accompanying book features plenty of photos, a full discography, and extensive liner notes that include fresh interviews with Mike Vernon, trumpeter Darrell Leonard (who produced six of the live tracks), and one of Freddie King notable '70s sidemen, pianist David Maxwell.

This 5-CD boxed set picks up right where Bear Family's first mammoth and highly acclaimed Freddie King box, 'Taking Care Of Business 1956-1973', left off, chronicling the last years of the great Texas-born blues guitarist's legacy with RSO Records, where, of course, Eric Clapton also recorded. Freddie King's producer, Mike Vernon, had previously founded Blue Horizon Records, England's top blues label. Vernon would helm Freddie King's first RSO album, 'Burglar,' in Great Britain; the set spotlighted Freddie King high-energy attack in a funky soul-laced setting. One song on the acclaimed album was cut in Miami with Tom Dowd producing and Eric Clapton on second guitar. Also included are several more studio-cut gems, including a previously unreleased version of Jimmy Rogers' That's All Right, and Freddie King's last Vernon-helmed single for RSO, done in L.A. with the city's top R&B session aces.

The other four discs capture Freddie King in all his onstage glory, working his magic in front of appreciative live throngs. The great majority of these in-concert performances have never been released until now; they're all professionally recorded in sparkling stereo with Freddie King crack touring band in tow and Freddie King in typically dazzling form. The last live number dates from a month-and-a-half before Freddie King's tragic December 1976 death, featuring him in a guitar-wielding guest role as Clapton sings Farther Up The Road.

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Interpret: Freddie King
Album titlle: Texas Flyer, 1974-1976 (5-CD)
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Bear Family Records
Price code EK
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart Box set
EAN: 4000127167781
weight in Kg 2.08

King, Freddie - Texas Flyer, 1974-1976 (5-CD) Box set 1
01	Pack It Up
02	My Credit Didn't Go Through
03	I Got The Same Old Blues
04	Only Getting Second Best
05	Texas Flyer
06	Pulp Wood
07	She's A Burglar
08	I Had A Dream
09	Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)
10	It's Your Move
11	Shake Your Booty
12	Sweet Home Chicago
13	That's All Right
14	Sugar Sweet
15	TV Mama
16	Gambling Woman Blues (I Wonder Why)
17	Boogie Funk
18	It's Better To Have (And Don't Need)
19	Boogie Bump
20	Sugar Sweet

King, Freddie - Texas Flyer, 1974-1976 (5-CD) Box set 2
01	You Can Run, But You Can't Hide
02	Woke Up This Morning
03	Meet Me In The Morning
04	The Things I Used To Do
05	Ain't That I Don't Love You
06	Have You Ever Loved A Woman
07	Big Leg Woman (With A Short Short Mini Skirt)
08	Woman Across The River
09	Look On Yonder Wall
10	Ain't No Sunshine
11	Sweet Home Chicago
12	Boogie Funk
13	Little Bluebird
14	Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)
15	Going Down

King, Freddie - Texas Flyer, 1974-1976 (5-CD) Box set 3
01	Big Leg Woman (With A Short Short Mini Skirt)
02	Woman Across The River
03	Signals Of Love
04	Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
05	Key To the Highway
06	Hide Away
07	Going Down
08	You Sure Look Good To Me
09	Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)
10	Have You Ever Loved A Woman
11	Boogie Funk

King, Freddie - Texas Flyer, 1974-1976 (5-CD) Box set 4
01	Messin' With The Kid
02	Sweet Home Chicago
03	You're the One
04	Woke Up This Morning
05	Funk Instrumental
06	Going Down
07	The Things That I Used To Do
08	Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)
09	Call It Stormy Monday/Little Bluebird)

King, Freddie - Texas Flyer, 1974-1976 (5-CD) Box set 5
01	Signals Of Love
02	Woman Across the River
03	Boogie Funk
04	Meet Me In the Morning
05	Feeling Alright
06	Hide Away/The Mojo
07	Have You Ever Loved A Woman
08	Little Bluebird
09	Farther Up the Road

Freddie King Although he was born near Gilmer, Texas, on September 3, 1934, Freddy King... more

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Freddie King

Although he was born near Gilmer, Texas, on September 3, 1934, Freddy King spent his musically formative years in Chicago. From 1950 to 1963, the handsome guitarist contributed to changing the blues of Windy City from ensemble tradition to the new, more aggressive sound of the West Side - with his sensational guitar skills and roaring vocals.

Freddie Christian (King was his mother's last name; Federal Records later changed the spelling of his first name to Freddy) learned guitar early on under the guidance of his uncle Leon King. The 78's of Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker and Louis Jordan made a big impression on the boy. He moved to Chicago in December 1950; great for his age, he was let into the local blues bars and could see his heroes up close. The brilliant guitarists Jimmy Rogers, Robert Jr. Lockwood and Eddie Taylor gave him important musical tips.

"He tried to learn to play," said Rogers, who died in 1997. "He'd come in and sit down and watch us play, me and Muddy." Freddy did a good job of what he saw, "He then went back home and practiced until those licks sounded quite good to him." King developed a hot two-finger guitar technique with a plastic thumb pick and a metal pick on the index finger. "That's how I played, and he watched me," Rogers said. Freddy played in various local formations and joined the Blues Cats of the young bluesharp player Earlee Payton in 1956. "Payton left us," recalled their bassist Robert 'Big Mojo' Elem, who died in 1997. "After that, Freddy King was the bandleader."

King made his record debut in 1956 with the groovy That's What You Think for John Burton's tiny El-Bee label, but then had to wait four years for his next recording opportunity. Meanwhile he worked his way to the top of the new West Side movement, together with Magic Sam. "Everybody said,'Man, you gotta see Freddy King," says his West Side guitar mate Eddy Clearwater.

Another young Chicago guitarist, Syl Johnson, played a mediating role when Freddy finally found accommodation at Syd Nathans' Federal sub-label in Cincinnati's King Records. "He heard I was signing with Federal, so he wanted to try to get on the label," says Syl. "He gave me a demo and I sent it to Sonny Thompson." Sonny, a Mississippi-born pianist who reached the top of the R&B charts in 1948 with his two-part instrumental Long Gone for the Miracle record company before switching to Nathan's King label, headed the Chicago office of Federal and King. Thompson signed Freddy for Federal and produced his debut session in Cincinnati on August 26, 1960.

As usual Thompson also took over the piano, Bill Willis played bass and Philip Paul drums. No less than three hits were recorded on this day, the biggest was the only instrumental number. Hide Away was named after one of Freddy's favorite pubs on the West Side, Mel's Hideaway Lounge. "It's been a real hotspot for a long time," Rogers said. The piece consisted of a series of borrowed riffs, which were joined together to form a seamless whole.

The basic theme was taken over by King from slide guitar wizard Hound Dog Taylor, who called his creation Taylor's Boogie. "He was the first one to start playing it," says Clearwater. "Then Magic Sam played it." He recorded his own version for Mel London's Chief logo in 1961 and named it Do The Camel Walk. But Sam didn't use the two choruses Freddy played on his bass strings that came straight from Jimmy McCracklin's 58 hit The Walk, and the 12 bars from Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn. The wide open break chord came either from Lockwood or Freddy Robinson.

"We played it about three, four, maybe five or six times and we thought,'Okay, we're getting ready to record it,'" Willis, who died in 2010, recalled. "The old man (Nathan) said,'I got it!'" Crazy old Syd had captured a #5 R&B-/#29 pop smash hit - and the definitive electric blues guitar instrumental piece.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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Customer evaluation for "Texas Flyer, 1974-1976 (5-CD)"

From: Kaspar Fischer On: 9 Jun 2016

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Schon an der vorhergehenden Box "Taking Care Of Business" hatte ich grosse Freude. Damit war es selbstverständlich klar, dass ich die Box "Texas Flyer" zu erwerben beabsichtigte, als ich von deren Erscheinen erfuhr. Auch diese Folgebox "Texas Flyer" ist meines Erachtens ausgezeichnet gelungen. Die Diskographie ist sehr genau und besonders gefallen mir auch die Abbildungen von Covers und Sleeves der zeitgenössischen LP- und Single-Ausgaben.
Die Kommentare und Essays habe ich noch nicht alle gelesen, aber auch diese sehen absolut professionell aus und werden inhaltlich gewiss interessant sein.

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