{"id":1974,"date":"2011-10-20T11:43:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T16:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2012-02-22T12:32:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T17:32:49","slug":"freddy-king-san-ho-zay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1974","title":{"rendered":"Freddy King – San-Ho-Zay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Freddy King – San-Ho-Zay <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

The end of yet another week has arrived which means it\u2019s time for me to remind you all that the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> will be back pulsing through the airwaves of the interwebs this Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio<\/strong> <\/a>with the finest in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove all engineered to keep your ears wiggling and your feet sliding across the floor. If you can\u2019t make the soiree, fall by this very blog on Saturday to pick up the show in easy to use MP3 form to be listened to at your leisure.<\/p>\n

I come to you today to tell you that Freddy King<\/strong> was a mighty man.<\/p>\n

Nine feet tall, hands like country hams, feet like canal boats and a high, shiny conk that outshone the sun whenever he picked up his tiny guitar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course none of that is true<\/em>, but were this a just world Freddy King would stand astride the world of the guitar the same way Paul Bunyan<\/strong> towered over any run of the mill forest.<\/p>\n

He was a master of the guitar, but not in any of the teenage wet dream virtuoso way of so many of those he influenced.<\/p>\n

Freddy King made it look easy.<\/p>\n

I have to thank my buddy the Bluesman<\/strong>, who lo these many years ago hit me up with a handful of cassettes (remember those?<\/em>) of cats like Slim Harpo, Albert King<\/strong> and of course Freddy, all of which helped me lock into the blues, at least enough so that I could proceed on my own.<\/p>\n

The thing I remember most, especially with Freddy and Albert (no relation) is how much of the UK rock \u2018masters\u2019 I realized had appropriated their sounds and styles. Had either of these gents succumbed to a childhood illness old Slowhand<\/strong> would still be mopping up a chip shop somewhere instead of rolling around naked in piles of hundred pound notes.<\/p>\n

That said, I don\u2019t dig out my Bluesbreakers<\/strong> albums much these days, but I do find myself dialing up Freddy King on the old iPod, digging the way the power of his guitar solos rise up and transcend the pops and crackles of the 45s they were recorded from.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned a few weeks back, I pick up JBs<\/strong> 45s wherever I find them, and the same goes for Freddy King. While some of his rarer discs have evaded me, I have all the bigguns, and they don\u2019t get any bigger than the mighty \u2018San-Ho-Zay\u2019.<\/p>\n

He laid down today\u2019s selection for the good folks at Federal in Nineteen and Sixty One, and though he barely hit the pop charts, \u2018San-Ho-Zay\u2019 was a Top 5 R&B hit. It wasn\u2019t his biggest (the influential \u2018Hideaway\u2019 would hit Top 5 R&B and Top 40 Pop that same year) but it\u2019s among his boldest, led by his axe in a way that guitar instros just don\u2019t seem to be capable of anymore.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, \u2018San-Ho-Zay\u2019 might also ring a bell because it was, how do they say, borrowed<\/em> from a couple of New Orleans cats (see Dan Phillips<\/strong> great article on the history of the tune at the mighty Home of the Groove<\/strong> blog<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a killer record and a great start to the weekend.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it,and I\u2019ll be back on Monday.<\/p>\n

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Freddy King   Listen\/Download – Freddy King – San-Ho-Zay Greetings all. The end of yet another week has arrived which means it\u2019s time for me to remind you all that the Funky16Corners Radio Show will be back pulsing through the airwaves of the interwebs this Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio with the finest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[89,69,64,12,18],"tags":[166,164,84],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blues","category-original-versions","category-rb","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul","tag-texas-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-vQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}