Freddie King News

Here's a list of scheduled shows announced this week and upcoming shows for the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Everyone says Essence Fest is the spot to break out the high fashion - to see, be seen in one's finest summer threads.

As a 16-year-old guitar prodigy, basking in the fluent scalular overdose of fusion giants such as Allan Holdsworth and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, Texas native Chris Duarte had little respect or patience for the blues heroes of his home state.

Alphabetical Listing Home : CD reviews : Blues : Freddie King Freddie King - The Best of Freddie King: The Shelter Records Years - "The Best of Freddie King" is a great collection to have from the King of guitar boogie.

THIS SUNDAY sees the return of one of the most popular artists on the European Blues circuit return to the Hope Tavern at Holton le Moor Leicester born and now German based Mick Pini keeps this regular date as part of his Summer UK tour.

With taste and skill that reach far beyond his age, Jimmy Bowskill astounded a bewitched audience at Loplops Gallery-Lounge last evening.

Little Freddie King was already a big glowing square on my Jazz Fest schedule, but his single-song appearance at the Ponderosa Stomp last night really whetted my appetite.

Albert King is truly a "King of the Blues," although he doesn't hold that title .

If you like elbow room with your music, today was the day to be at Jazz Fest . Thursday is always a relatively low-key day.

Gambit 's own Count Basin has compiled his annual list of this year's best bets at the 40th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Jazz Fest turns 40 this year, growing from a tiny, money-losing affair where the promoters gave away tickets because the grounds were nearly empty to a massive, packed festival with multiple stages and mega-corporate sponsorship.

A lot has changed since the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival staged its first blowout for $3 a day at Congo Square.

Midnight Flyer is a weekly, two hour program featuring a wide variety of blues, interviews, biographies and stories about the blues.

True blues returns to the stage of Godfrey Daniels in Bethlehem Saturday night when the Lehigh Valley Blues Network presents guitarist Andrew ''Jr. Boy'' Jones.

When they were growing up on the Yankton Indian reservation in South Dakota, the Nanji siblings benefited greatly from their father's record collection.

The second weekend of Jazz Fest is four days: Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3. Here are the acts circled on my calendar: Thursday, April 30 : Little Freddie King , 12:25 p.m., Blues Tent.

After spending the last two decades as a sideman for such blues headliners as Jim Liban, Hubert Sumlin and Eddie Taylor Jr., Perry Weber finally founded his own band in early 2007.

Five songs I'm listening to this week: Yo La Tengo, "You Can Have It All" : The kind of song that you need a lobotomy to get out of your head.

The Dirty Robbers are a four-piece from Lutterworth who play their own brand of early rhythm and blues influenced by the likes of Freddie King, Young Jessie, Johnny Guitar Watson and The Sonics.

This Sunday night we welcome back Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King to play show No.