Freddie King was a key blues singer and guitarist, starting in the 1950s. However, he died young, in 1976, at the age of 42 years old, from a combination of stomach ulcers and acute pancreatitis. Due to his untimely death, there aren't that many concert bootlegs from him (though there are a good number of official live albums).
Most of the surviving recordings from this festival are soundboard bootlegs, but in this case, it's an audience bootleg. It's one that was only made public in the early 2020s, and it hasn't been widely shared until now. The sound quality is pretty good for an audience boot. I tried to help by doing my usual tricks, using MVSEP to reduce the crowd noise during the songs, and using UVR5 to boost the lead vocals relative to the instruments. (I don't know why so many boots have the lead vocals low in the mix, but it's a surprisingly common problem.)
King was known for his lead guitar playing as much or more as his vocals. So three of the six songs here are instrumentals, including "Hideaway," which became a surprise pop hit in 1960.
Since this album is relatively short compared to others from the festival, I think the odds are good that there's more that didn't get recorded. The odds of that are greater because there were chunks missing from the last two songs, suggesting the taper stopped at least once. I used other live recordings from 1969 to fill in missing bits there, which is why those two have "[Edit]" in their titles. At least we do get a DJ announcing the end of the set at the end of the last song, though there could have been an encore after that.
Many acts at the festival performed on more than one day, but this was King's only performance in the festival.
This album is 32 minutes long.
01 San Ho Zay [Instrumental] (Freddie King)
02 I'm Tore Down (Freddie King)
03 You Got to Love Her with a Feeling (Freddie King)
04 Hideaway [Instrumental] (Freddie King)
05 Play It Cool [Edit] (Freddie King)
06 Sen Say Shun [Instrumental] [Edit] (Freddie King)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/1sHzrYcH
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/WM7UyxpTCTi8vlU/file
The cover is from this exact concert. It's kind of amazing to me how often I was able to find one, but just one, photo of each musical act from this festival. This is another case of that. The original of this photo was in black and white, but I used the program Kolorize to colorize it.
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