Biography Alabama Slim

Alabama Slim’s Blues Revue featuring Little Freddie King is definitely a force to reckon with when it comes to blues music! Alabama Slim grew up playing in juke joints in Alabama and moved to New Orleans in the ‘60s.

A Music Maker Artist since 2004, his music has been heard at performances in the States and abroad. He’s performed at Lincoln Center in New York, and multiple locations across Europe, and been featured in the films Toot Blues and Redemption Road.

Recent releases include The Mighty Flood, a hurricane Katrina-influenced album featuring Slim & blues guitarist Little Freddie King. And if you’re lucky enough to be in New Orleans, you can catch Alabama Slim live at Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill on Thursday nights from 6-9 pm.

Born in McComb, Mississippi in 1940, Little Freddie King grew up playing alongside his blues guitar-picking father (Jessie James Martin), then rode the rails to New Orleans during the early fifties where he crossed paths with itinerant South Louisiana blues man such as “Poka- Dot” Slim and “Boogie” Bill Webb.

Honing his guitar chops at notorious joints like the Bucket of Blood (which he later immoralized in song), over the years he has jammed and gigged with a Who’s Who of notable musicians like Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker,Babe Stoval, Polka Dot Slim, Guitar Grady, Guitar Ray, Snooks Eaglin, Billy Tate, Harmonica Williams, Boogie Bill Webb, Rev Charles Jacobs (his cousin), Harmonica Slim and Eddie Lang.

And more recently Freddie has performed at the N.O. Jazz Festival and French Quarter Festival (USA), Montreal Jazz Festival and Ottawa Blues Festival (Canada), Blues to Bop Festival (Switzerland), Nancy Jazz Pulsation Festival, JVC Festival and Festival de Lille (France), Blues Estafette (Holland), Burnley Blues Festival (England), Debrecen Jazz Festival (Hungary) Portsmouth Blues Festival, Savannah Music Festival, King Biscuit Blues Festival (USA). Terra Blues Club (New York), Chesterfields and New Morning Cafe’ (Paris). With this kind of pedigree, it’s easy to see why Little Freddie King is has been called “The monarch of the Crescent City blues scene”.

For more information about the talented members of the Alabama Slim Blues Revue, check out their websites at:

http://www.musicmaker.org/artists/alabama-slim/

https://www.facebook.com/AlabamaSlimFanPage

http://musicrising.org/posts/835/alabama-slim-with-his-mr-guitar/

http://www.livebluesworld.com/profile/AlabamaSlim

http://www.musicmaker.org/artists/little-freddie-king/

http://www.littlefreddieking.com

https://myspace.com/littlefreddieking

http://www.fatpossum.com/artists/little-freddie-king

Source: Blues In Da Parish Festival - Alabama Slim & Little Freddie King

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