Cat. No. 2706: FREDDY KING ~ HEADS UP! - THE FIRST FOURTEEN SINGLES As & Bs. JASMINE JASCD3050. (IMPORT).

FREDDIE KING (OR FREDDY AS HE WAS KNOWN IN HIS EARLY YEARS) WAS CONSIDERED THE LEAST POPULAR OF THE “THREE KINGS OF BLUES” – FREDDIE, B.B. AND ALBERT. HE SECURED HIS FIRST RECORDING CONTRACT WITH THE KING LABEL IN 1960. THIS COLLECTION OF 27 TRACKS RELEASED BY FREDDIE ON FOURTEEN 45s BETWEEN 1960 AND 1962 INCLUDES SEVERAL VERY IMPORTANT RECORDINGS VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL, A SUB-GENRE THAT FREDDIE INDULGED IN FAR MORE THAN ANY OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES. A SUPERB RELEASE BY ONE OF THE FINEST AND INFLUENTIAL BLUES GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME *****   

TRACK LISTING: Have You Ever Loved A Woman / You’ve Got To Love Her With A Feeling / Hide Away / I Love The Woman / Lonesome Whistle Blues / It’s Too Bad Things Are Going So Tough / See See Baby / San Ho Zay / I’m Tore Down / Sen-Sa-Shun / Christmas Tears / I Hear Jingle Bells / If You Believe (In What You Do) / Heads Up / Takin’ Care Of Business / The Stumble / Side Tracked / Sittin’ On The Boat Dock / What About Love / Texas Oil / Do The President Twist (with Lula Reed) / Just Pickin’ / Come On / You Can’t Hide (Lula Reed) / (Let Your Love) Watch Over Me (Lula Reed) / In The Open / I’m On My Way To Alanta.

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