Freddy King - Gives You a Bonanza of Instrumentals (2018)

All-instrumental album from the guitarist idolized by Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Stevie Ray Vaughan and many others.

The album Freddy King – Gives You a Bonanza of Instrumentals was reissued in 2018 by the Japanese label Oldays Records (catalog number ODR6663) in a mini-LP CD format, featuring a replica of the original cover and including three bonus tracks.

Freddie King's second all-instrumental album, Freddy King Gives You a Bonanza of Instrumentals, originally released in 1965 on King Records' Federal subsidiary, continued the artist's winning streak, with such memorable King originals as "Manhole," "Freeway 75," "Low Tide" and "Funnybone."

Although his career was tragically cut short by his death at the age of 42, Freddie King was one of America's most distinctive and influential electric blues guitarists, leaving an indelible mark on more than one generation of guitar superstars, including Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Rolling Stones' Mick Taylor. The Texas-born axeman began playing guitar at the age of six, and in his teens moved with his family to the South Side of Chicago, where he was inspired by witnessing club gigs by such seminal electric bluesmen as Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers and Elmore James. Originally billed as Freddy King, he began recording in 1957, revealing a massively influential style that merged his Texas and Chicago influences, and soon achieved commercial success with a series of infectious instrumental hits.



Tracklist:
1-1 Freddy King - MANHOLE [2:24]
1-2 Freddy King - FREEWAY 75 [2:48]
1-3 Freddy King - LOW TIDE [6:27]
1-4 Freddy King - THE SAD NITE OWL [2:24]
1-5 Freddy King - FUNNYBONE [2:38]
1-6 Freddy King - NICKLEPLATED [2:31]
1-7 Freddy King - KING-A-LING [2:59]
1-8 Freddy King - SURF MONKEY [2:32]
1-9 Freddy King - FREDDY’S MIDNITE DREAM [2:30]
1-10 Freddy King - FISH FARE [2:29]
1-11 Freddy King - CLOUD SAILIN’ [2:25]
1-12 Freddy King - REMINGTON RIDE [5:50]
1-13 Freddy King - DRIVING SIDEWAYS [2:48]
1-14 Freddy King - HI RISE [3:04]
1-15 Freddy King - ONION RINGS [3:02]