Eddie King
@ Biscuits & Blues, January 23, 1998
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After his mother died in 1950 he moved to Kentucky with some of his brothers and sisters, and then on to Chicago in 1954 with an uncle. His earliest musical influences were his parents. His dad played guitar and his mom sang. "My dad played country blues just like John Lee Hooker." Eddie was influenced by Muddy, Wolf and Junior Wells and the rest of the players on Maxwell Street. He learned guitar by pressing his face up against the storefront windows watching the guitar player. He would memorize how the guitar player placed his fingers on the fret board then run home and tried to repeat the same pattern.
It wasn’t long before he started getting a reputation as a guitar player to be reckoned with. He talked about his "cutting heads" days on the south and west side with Buddy Guy and Freddie King. He said "they were better guitar players than I was but I had them scared, you know like Cassias Clay, I could put on a show." Eddie does have that swagger. He may be little is stature, but he sure knows how to pack a punch.
Biscuits & Blues 1/23/98 Photo © 1998 by Tom Asp All rights reserved |
Biscuits & Blues 1/23/98 Photo © 1998 by Tom Asp All rights reserved |
On his first visit to the Twin Cities he was joined by Jamie Jenkins on bass, Kevin Gray and drums and Doug Daniels on Sax and keyboards. Bass player Jenkins has been with Eddie for several years now and they have a "good groove going" according to Eddie. During the show at Biscuits and Blues he played a fiery (chilly?) Albert Collins "If You Love Me Like You Say," and several songs from his new CD that demonstrated his fine song writing abilities ("Angel of Mercy" and "If Loving You Is Wrong").
Biscuits & Blues 1/23/98 Photo © 1998 by Tom Asp All rights reserved |
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