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2018 Little Freddie King
001-2018-022
47:10 Master Camera files on Hard Drive, Mp4 on Server and Cloud
2018-05-04
Interviewer - Steve Armbruster
ABSTRACT: 01:37 King explains his laborious childhood life in McComb, Mississippi. 02:56 King reveals that he was seventeen when he left for New orleans. 03:27 King describes the hard-drinking scene of his childhood, featuring driving around drinking with his father and uncle Babe Stovall. 06:03 King describes his journey to New orleans, made against his mother’s wishes. 13:27 King explains that he didn’t yet know how to play guitar when he arrived in New orleans in 1957; his father said he had to teach himself, only teaching him three chords. He would watch his father play on the porch and borrow that guitar, the only one in the house, when his father was gone, sharing a story about one day accidentally breaking a string. 16:33 King tells how he came upon the cigar box he used to make his first guitar. 18:04 Explaining that he bought himself a guitar once in New orleans, he describes how police foiled his attempts to learn from musicians on Bourbon Street. Instead, he practiced alone at home. He bought himself a record player so that he could teach himself through imitation. He waited to go out in public until he felt he could play his own material and express himself. 20:33 King describes his first gigs, the venues and personnel. 22:34 King describes his relationship with Babe Stovall, who he saw after he moved. 24:38 King explains how his first album came to be. 26:33 King confirms that in his early days his audiences were exclusively black. 29:26 King explains that he plays his version and feelings, and believes himself to be original. 30:23 King tells how he culls his songwriting material from his life, which he finds to be a method of relief. 31:50 DEmnstration 36:31 Wade Wright describes his musical beginnings. 37:44 Wright confirms the historic law barring white people from black clubs, which once got him arrested. 38:47 King tells the story of finding out Lightning Hopkins was his cousin. 42:00 King addresses his fashion, explaining how much he believes wardrobe and appearance to matter. 43:31 Demonstration
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