{"id":3445,"date":"2012-04-17T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T17:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2012-04-17T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T17:37:22","slug":"rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-inductee-freddie-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-inductee-freddie-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee, Freddie King"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3446\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-inductee-freddie-king\/attachment\/113525628914\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3446\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3446\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/113525628914-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freddie King is one of the three Kings of the Blues; others include Albert and B.B.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Freddie King recently joined the ranks of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and to celebrate this much deserved award, I collected a few video clips that feature King doing what he does best &#8211; play the blues.\u00a0 The first video features a great version of the Freddie King classic, &#8220;Boogie Funk.&#8221;\u00a0 In the second video, King slows it down quite a bit and and plays a soulful rendition of the song, &#8220;Have You Ever Loved A Woman.&#8221;\u00a0 The last video I&#8217;ll leave you with features Freddie King and his band grooving to the tune, &#8220;Shake Your Bootie.&#8221;\u00a0 All three songs offer a classic glimpse back in time to one of the great blues masters, Freddie King.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!<\/p>\n<p>Freddie King plays with a force that&#8217;s as big as his frame.\u00a0 hear the master in action at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vdyvPg0c6bI\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vdyvPg0c6bI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/vdyvPg0c6bI&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Playing the blues means telling a story, and it&#8217;s always good to tell a story with as much emotion as you can.\u00a0 Freddie King doesn&#8217;t even need words to tell the story in this next video.\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mE9H1bW-zQ4&amp;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mE9H1bW-zQ4&amp;feature=related<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/mE9H1bW-zQ4&#8243; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This last video proves that Freddie King can groove as well as I can play the blues.\u00a0 Listen to him jam on the song, &#8220;Shake Your Bootie,&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pLPtDJ8LtOI&amp;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pLPtDJ8LtOI&amp;feature=related<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/pLPtDJ8LtOI&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are plenty more Freddie King videos out there for you to see, so make sure you check out as much as you can.\u00a0 King inspired not only blues guitarists, but guitarists in all music genres, all over the world.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed these videos!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddie King recently joined the ranks of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and to celebrate this much deserved award, I collected a few video clips that feature King doing what he does best &#8211; play the blues.\u00a0 The first video features a great version of the Freddie King classic, &#8220;Boogie Funk.&#8221;\u00a0 In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}