Tier 2 · legacy legend
Little Freddie King
Person · male · United States · McComb · born 1940 · recording since 1995
American Delta blues guitarist
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Also known as Литтл Фредди Кинг
Timeline
11 events▣ Album 9◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1
1940s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Swamp Boogie
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2000s
2010s
2020s
Biography
English biography290 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1340051303
Biography
Little Freddie King (born Fread Eugene Martin, July 19, 1940) is an American Delta blues guitarist. Despite the name, his style is not based on that of Freddie King, but is more influenced by John Lee Hooker and his approach to electric blues is original.
Biography
King, a cousin of Lightnin' Hopkins, was born in McComb, Mississippi, and learned to play the guitar from his father. In 1954, at the age of 14, he moved to New Orleans. He performed in juke joints with his friends Babe Stovall, Slim Harpo, and Champion Jack Dupree, playing both acoustic and electric guitar.
He recorded the first electric blues album in New Orleans with Harmonica Williams in 1969. In 1976, King undertook a European tour with Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker. His next recording opportunity came in 1996, 27 years after his first, with the release of Swamp Boogie. King's Sing Sang Sung (2000) was recorded live at the Dream Palace in Faubourg Marigny.
King is a charter member of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and has played at the festival for 42 years. He is a member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. He was selected three times as Blues Performer of the Year in New Orleans. He was honored with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker in McComb, Mississippi. In 2007, King co-contributed to the Alabama Slim album, The Mighty FloodThe Mighty FloodSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1The Mighty Flood3:432Please Leave My Money Alone3:063Crack Alley3:544Way Down in the Bottom4:155I Got the Blues4:416Going Upstairs2:387Mr. Charlie4:268Coming Home3:429Waiting on You5:0210Lord, I'm Good for Something3:3211I Don't Know What to Do5:3712Flood (reprise)2:41.
His 2012 album, Chasing tha Blues
Chasing Tha BluesSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1Born Dead4:382Crackho Flo3:453Louisiana Train Wreck3:324Got tha Blues On My Back4:505Pocket Full of Money3:576Back in New Orleans4:007King Freddie's Shuffle5:258Great Great Bamboozle3:459Night Time in Treme4:4610Bywater Crawl4:3411Standin At Yo' Door5:0712Mixed Bucket of Blood3:23, won Best Blues Album at the 12th Annual Independent Music Awards. He appeared in the 2015 documentary film I Am the Blues and the Midnight In The Crescent City documentary by Ben Chace.
King's album, Jaw Jackin' Blues, was released in 2020.
Awards and honors
OffBeat recognized King with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021–22.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 9 | 81.7th |
| Studio albums | 9 | 90th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 11 | 87.9th |
| Recording span (years) | 27 | 60th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (9 release groups · 9 studio albums)
Albums · 9
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 38:39
1Cleo's Back2:482Mean Little Woman4:533Swamp Boogie2:044I Use to Be Down3:555San Ho Zay1:586Bus Station Blues4:057Kinky Cotton Fields1:508Baby Got It All3:579What'd I Say3:4710I'm Gonna Haul Right Off and Cry3:5511The Great Chinese2:2312Cat Squall Blues3:042000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 53:02
1Sing Sang Sung3:082Do She Ever Thing of Me3:123Soul Twist2:304If You Want to Know the Blues You Got to Walk in My Shoes6:215Bad Chicken3:326Hobo Blues6:187Hide Away3:508Bucket of Blood7:339Rocky Mountain6:4510Honest I Do4:3611Three O'Clock Blues5:172005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 43:07
1Crack Head Joe4:072Walking With Freddie4:493Chicken Dance4:314You Rascal You2:235Looking for My Woman2:346Hot Fingers3:047Tough Frog to Swallow6:418Fox Hunt3:519Chicken Dance (remix)2:4210Cane Special3:4211Dig a Hole4:432007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 47:17
1The Mighty Flood3:432Please Leave My Money Alone3:063Crack Alley3:544Way Down in the Bottom4:155I Got the Blues4:416Going Upstairs2:387Mr. Charlie4:268Coming Home3:429Waiting on You5:0210Lord, I'm Good for Something3:3211I Don't Know What to Do5:3712Flood (reprise)2:412008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 54:07
1Messin' Around Tha House (Remix)5:012Can't Do Nothing Babe5:123Dig Me A Hole (Remix)3:144Goin Out Da Mountain6:375Sad Sad News (Remix)3:056The Things I Use To Do5:277Kinghead Shuffle3:518Bad News7:099Goin' Upstairs5:1510Washerteria Woman9:16Messin' Around Tha Living Room
2011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 56:37
1Bad Bad Julie4:202Old Yellow Boy3:473Hey Tom, I Saw You5:284I Wanna See Dr. Bones6:175Run Here Baby, Run4:406Back at the Bucket of Blood7:397Brother Hay Shacker3:418Soul Serenade5:269Do da Duck, Quack Quack5:3310Two Days, Two Nights4:2211Tryin' to Make It to My Shack5:242012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 51:42
1Born Dead4:382Crackho Flo3:453Louisiana Train Wreck3:324Got tha Blues On My Back4:505Pocket Full of Money3:576Back in New Orleans4:007King Freddie's Shuffle5:258Great Great Bamboozle3:459Night Time in Treme4:4610Bywater Crawl4:3411Standin At Yo' Door5:0712Mixed Bucket of Blood3:232018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks
1Cleos Back2Mean Little Woman3The Great Chinese4What I'd Say5Kinky Cotton Fields6I Used To Be Down7Sing Sang Sung8Do She Ever Think Of Me9Hide Away10Honest I Do11Bad Chicken2022 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 41:12
1Crazy Woman5:032Father-Less4:303Dust on the Bible3:174We Are Through4:255Canal St. Corner Bar4:086Two Timer4:247Don't Worry About Me3:588Coke No Ice5:089Caress Me Baby3:0910Two Wheel Cadillac3:10
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Little Freddie King head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 9 | 81.7th |
| Studio albums | 9 | 90th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 11 | 87.9th |
| Recording span (years) | 27 | 60th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Freddie King Blues Band(band) | — | present |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Little_Freddie_King_FQF_2012_2.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b24e9215-56e2-4393-adac-b0aeedc2b330discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b24e9215-56e2-4393-adac-b0aeedc2b330core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6650099genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6650099seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Freddie_Kingbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Freddie_King
Why this artist is in the database
- List of blues musicians — rank #117
| 1940 | | Mississippi | Electric blues |
Tier rule: genre canon: blues
Image: dsb nola · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q6650099 · MusicBrainz: b24e9215-56e2-4393-adac-b0aeedc2b330
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