Freddie King - Let's Hide Away and Dance Away

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There are three Kings in the history of the blues. There's the fairly well known B.B. King, the lesser known but influential Albert King (most well known for his song/album "Born Under a Bad Sign"), and then there's Freddie King: the "Texas Cannonball", who influenced his own group of electric blues musicians to include some of their Texas sound. In the 1950s, the blues had some considerable growth, with blues guitarists moving out of the Delta blues scene and into the Chicago blues scene and changing some conventions of the genre along the way. But by 1961, rock 'n' roll music had taken off in popularity and made a lot of [white] people money, starting to overshadow the blues that had created it, leaving behind many blues legends. However, the blues was far from dead. In the 1960s a lot of US music was being exported all over the world, not unlike K-Pop from South Korea. It was at this time that American blues was becoming more fully appreciated in Japan and Europe, resulting in the "British Invasion" of rock music, where blues had once again completely reshaped popular music. One of the essential albums for any 1960s electric guitarist was "Let's Hide Away and Dance Away," by Freddie King. With it his guitar talent is on full display, being an instrumental album and you can hear the impact he has on music for years to come.

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