^ "Little Freddie King: A King's Life".Jaw Jackin' Blues (2020), Madewright Records.Queen and Slim: The Soundtrack (2019), Motown Records.Fried Rice & Chicken (2018), Orleans Records.Messin' Around tha Living Room (2015), Madewright Records.Chasing tha Blues (2012), Madewright Records.Gotta Walk with Da King (2010), Madewright Records.Messin' Around tha House (2008), Madewright Records.You Don't Know What I Know (2005), Fat Possum Records.FQF Live (2003), WWOZ (Library of Congress Recording).Sing Sang Sung ( live album) (2000), Orleans Records.Harmonica Williams and Little Freddie King (1969), Ahura Mazda Records.King's most recent album, Jaw Jackin' Blues, was released in 2020. He appeared in the 2015 documentary film I Am the Blues. His 2012 album, Chasing tha Blues, won Best Blues Album at the 12th Annual Independent Music Awards. In 2007, King co-contributed to the Alabama Slim album, The Mighty Flood. He was honored with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker in McComb, Mississippi. He was selected three times as Blues Performer of the Year in New Orleans. He is a member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. King is a charter member of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and has played at the festival for 42 years. King's Sing Sang Sung (2000) was recorded live at the Dream Palace in Faubourg Marigny. His next recording opportunity came in 1996, twenty-seven years after his first, with the release of Swamp Boogie. In 1976, King undertook a European tour with Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker. He recorded the first electric blues album in New Orleans with Harmonica Williams in 1969. He performed in juke joints with his friends Babe Stovall, Slim Harpo, and Champion Jack Dupree, playing both acoustic and electric guitar. In 1954, at the age of 14, he moved to New Orleans. King, a cousin of Lightnin' Hopkins, was born in McComb, Mississippi, and learned to play the guitar from his father. His style is based on that of Freddie King, but his approach to country blues is original. Little Freddie King (born Fread Eugene Martin, July 19, 1940) is an American Delta blues guitarist.
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