Little Freddie King Blues Medicine (CD)

(Made Wright Records) 10 tracks, digipack

One of the last bluesmen of his generation, the unstoppable Little Freddie King (aka Dr. Bones) has done his duty. In the last 82 years, he's survived three shootings, stabbings, a near-fatal bicycle accident that crushed his spine, a stomach ulcer that doctors thought would kill him, an accidental electrocution, the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005, and now a pandemic. You can read the trials of life in his voice. The music in it is the dose of blues medicine that has kept him alive. King is a country-style blues musician who harkens back to an era when live music poured out of the nightclubs in the African-American neighborhoods of New Orleans, fostering a musical subculture of down-home Mississippi blues that developed from the ground up in New Orleans. Little Freddie King is an artist who is among the last of his kind. This album proves it.