Freddie King 2022

This 3 CD set includes some of the greatest, innovative and influential musicians of the 20th century, they are all here, Robert Johnson, Elmore James, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker et al - performing some of their best known songs.

After Tinsley Ellis released the fine Ice Cream in Hell in 2020, he hit the road for a 60-date tour. Six weeks in, the global COVID-19 pandemic made him cancel. He drove the 2,400 miles from Reno, Nevada to Atlanta, Georgia. At home he entered his basement studio and pulled out loads of gear – including every guitar he owned. He also set up a turntable and began dragging vinyl off the shelves. He explored studio and obscure live recordings from some of his musical heroes, including the Allman Brothers, Freddie and B.B. King, Michael Bloomfield, and many more. He was captivated and began writing with a white-hot intensity, determined to grow as a songwriter. By April he was posting tracks to his website. In 18 months he composed 200 new songs. He contacted longtime friend, keyboardist and producer Kevin McKendree and booked time at his Franklin, Tennessee studio, then culled his massive song list down to ten tunes. On Devil May Care, Ellis is joined by McKendree on piano and organ, bassist Steve Mackey, and drummer Lynn Williams.

Riley B. King, known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players.

The title already says it: This compilation is a purely instrumental album, which bandleader Tosho Todorovic has had on his to-do list for a long time. Combined here are 15 "songs without words" from the last 30 years of the band, which has existed since the mid-1970s. And that means at the same time that these songs, some recorded live and some in the studio, reflect the history of the Blues Company in its different line-ups, with the two personal constants Tosho Todorovic and Mike Titré, the second guitarist and singer of the formation. With three exceptions, the songs are all penned by Tosho Todorovic, whereby of course Freddie King's classic "Hideaway" should not be missing, which has long had a permanent place in the live repertoire of the Osnabrück band.