{"id":3513,"date":"2012-05-01T15:15:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T20:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2012-05-01T15:15:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T20:15:56","slug":"the-fou-kings-of-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-fou-kings-of-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Kings Of The Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Four Kings of the blues, B.B. King, Earl King, Freddie King, and Albert King, have given us some great blues music over the years.\u00a0 For fun, I put together four videos that feature each King playing the blues like the masters they are.\u00a0 B.B. King plays a great version of the song, &#8220;Blues Boys Tune,&#8221; Earl King performs his hit song, &#8220;Come On,&#8221; Freddie King performs a killer version of the Bill Withers classic song, &#8220;Ain&#8217;t No Sunshine,&#8221; and Albert King plays some dirty blues over the song, &#8220;Blues Power.&#8221;\u00a0 I hope you enjoy the videos as much as I did!<\/p>\n<p>B.B. King slows it down and plays all his troubles in this live recording of the song, &#8220;Blues Boys Tune.&#8221;\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Ny5ajCn0xw\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Ny5ajCn0xw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/4Ny5ajCn0xw&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earl King was a blues artist and composer from Louisiana that was responsible for the hit song covered by Jimi Hendrix, &#8220;Come On (Let The Good Times Roll).&#8221;\u00a0 Hear him sing this great hit song at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nsYCoKCq2ps\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nsYCoKCq2ps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/nsYCoKCq2ps&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Freddie King plays a killer version of the Bill Withers classic song, &#8220;Ain&#8217;t No Sunshine,&#8221; in this next performance.\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=16AnGcB7MHA\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=16AnGcB7MHA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/16AnGcB7MHA&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Albert King tells all in this great recording of the song, &#8220;Blues Power.&#8221;\u00a0 Enjoy the performance at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h5dpp2iCRwM\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h5dpp2iCRwM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/h5dpp2iCRwM&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Four Kings of the blues have given us some of the best blues recordings in the history of the music.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed these special performances as much as I did!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Four Kings of the blues, B.B. King, Earl King, Freddie King, and Albert King, have given us some great blues music over the years.\u00a0 For fun, I put together four videos that feature each King playing the blues like the masters they are.\u00a0 B.B. King plays a great version of the song, &#8220;Blues Boys [&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\/3513"}],"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=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}