Freddie King - Takin’ Care Of Business
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I just had an out-of-phase mod installed in my Epi SG, just so I could get this similar tone, for some of the swing Blues we like to stick into our sets
Now, I gotta work on the playing!
( always trying to improve smoother bending/vibrato - like what we hear from Freddie, right here)
Now, I gotta work on the playing!
( always trying to improve smoother bending/vibrato - like what we hear from Freddie, right here)
billy logan
Tele-Afflicted
I'll go out on a limb and say Freddy King's "Taking Care Of Business" in post #1 has a shuffle beat.
Then his "Out In The Open" in post #3 is not a shuffle - interesting drum accents* - but not a shuffle
I'm hearing a drum decrescendo through [one and two and three] *AND Four and ... like an unstressed train locomotive on a down slope.
What is that beat called? ...
and this rhythm, from 1959, almost "square"! evenly spaced, clipped staccato: one and two and three and four and
What's it called? Did people dance to this? as in, How the heck did people dance to it
I believe this song goes back to Blind Lemon Jefferson and Arthur Crudup
if you thought all that ^^^ was irrelevant - here's an unsolicited opinion for the heck of it:
People that don't like blues lyrics are disliking haiku and they don't appreciate apt comparisons
Then his "Out In The Open" in post #3 is not a shuffle - interesting drum accents* - but not a shuffle
I'm hearing a drum decrescendo through [one and two and three] *AND Four and ... like an unstressed train locomotive on a down slope.
What is that beat called? ...
and this rhythm, from 1959, almost "square"! evenly spaced, clipped staccato: one and two and three and four and
What's it called? Did people dance to this? as in, How the heck did people dance to it
I believe this song goes back to Blind Lemon Jefferson and Arthur Crudup
if you thought all that ^^^ was irrelevant - here's an unsolicited opinion for the heck of it:
People that don't like blues lyrics are disliking haiku and they don't appreciate apt comparisons
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I'll go out on a limb and say Freddy King's "Taking Care Of Business" in post #1 has a shuffle beat.
Then his "Out In The Open" in post #3 is not a shuffle - interesting drum accents* - but not a shuffle
I'm hearing a drum decrescendo through [one and two and three] *AND Four and ... like an unstressed train locomotive on a down slope.
What is that beat called? ...
and this rhythm, from 1959, almost "square"! evenly spaced, clipped staccato: one and two and three and four and
What's it called? Did people dance to this? as in, How the heck did people dance to it
I believe this song goes back to Blind Lemon Jefferson and Arthur Crudup
I'm more familiar with a more-sparse, Muddy Waters/Johnny Winter version of this song,
which is (like say, "La Grange" intro?) based on singing 'against' a fingerpicked rhythm groove over the I-IV-V chords
Sorry! Just remembering this groove, upon seeing title...
EllroyJames
Poster Extraordinaire
More Federal stuff
EllroyJames
Poster Extraordinaire
Great instrumental
Freddie King is one of my favorites and giant in the genre. Here's one of my favorite songs of ALL time.
Geoff738
Doctor of Teleocity
Love Freddie. My fave of the Kings. I saw all the others, including Earl, but missed out on Freddie. I did get to meet BB and I’m certain I was in a car beside Albert in Memphis, but the guy I was with, who was a big Albert fan, didn’t think it was him. Whoever it was they were smoking a pipe and driving a Corvette.
in Freddie´s remembrance I put him on during the Grammys. It’s just something that I do.
Cheers,
Geoff
in Freddie´s remembrance I put him on during the Grammys. It’s just something that I do.
Cheers,
Geoff
