Live At The Electric Ballroom [Extra tracks]

Freddie King | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 14, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 1974
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Shout Factory
• ASIN: B000BYCODQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,299 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #96 in Music > Blues > Regional Blues > Texas Blues

Track Listings

1. That's All Right

2. Interview

3. Dust My Broom [Solo Acoustic]

4. Big Leg Woman (With a Short Short Mini Skirt)

5. Woman Across the River

6. Key to the Highway

7. Let the Good Times Roll

8. Ain't Nobody's Business

9. Sweet Home Chicago

10. Dust My Broom

11. Hide Away Medley

12. Interview

Editorial Reviews

The Classic Live Album Is Back!

Along with B.B. and Albert, Freddie King was known as one of the "Three Kings of the Blues." And of the three, he’s generally credited with having the greatest impact on rock. Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughan and countless others have acknowledged a great debt to his brand of guitar playing and have covered his songs.

As part of its continued restoration of classic Black Top blues albums, Shout! Factory is proud to make the award-winning Live At The Electric Ballroom, 1974 available to blues fans once again. First issued in 1996, the album contains a stellar concert—featuring such classics as "Hideaway," "Dust My Broom," and "Sweet Home Chicago"—recorded two years before his death, along with revealing taped interviews and King’s only known acoustic recordings. Along with his classic early singles, this essential album rounds out the portrait of a hugely talented and influential blues master.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Ain't Nobody's Business" alone makes the whole CD 5 stars!, November 19, 2009

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Baberufus (West Jordan, UT USA) - See all my reviews

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This is a great live blues CD--I call it the 70's counterpart to B.B. King's famously heralded "Live At The Regal" from the 60's. Freddie King sings and plays like a man possessed by a blue devil! The sound quality is pretty good, not great, but good enough to capture the artistry of this short-lived bluesman. The radio studio cuts on acoustic provide a glimpse of another side of Freddie King's guitar talents that are largely unknown--solo acoustic. He modestly claims that he's out of his element playing an acoustic, but he does a great job, of course.

The centerpiece to this great CD is his flooring version of "Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do" (this is one of the live cuts with a full band). Both his vocal and guitar work on this cut are absolutely devastating! The blues doesn't get any better than that!

Highly recommended for adding to your Freddie King collection!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The ultimate party album, August 22, 2009

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Eric Krupin (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews
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The phrase "house rocking" suffers from debased coinage. Any journeyman or journeywoman blues artist's record company will slap it on their live CD without giving a second thought to the standard of performance those words properly describe.

But imagine for a moment the smoky blues club of your utopia. Nattily dressed men and big-legged women in short, short miniskirts... sweatily grooving to the hottest electric band you've ever heard. Rasping soul vocals. Stinging guitar leads.

*That* is the kind of house-rocking Freddie King performed in The Electric Ballroom. The result was one of the very best live blues albums ever recorded.

If the people at your next party won't dance to it, you need new friends.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The big man doing what he does best!!!!!, June 27, 2006

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Steven Weiss - See all my reviews
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Great cd for your blues collection. Worth every penny.......

Freddie King is perhaps the most progressive and least known of the three famous "Kings of Blues", Albert and BB King being the other two.

Cd has two in-studio acoustic performances (only known Freddie King acoustic recordings)and a great live 1974 show.