The The Best Of Freddie King: The Shelter Years

by Freddie King

Overview

King's Shelter years were covered in toto on the 1995 double-CD King of the Blues, which had everything from all three of his Shelter albums and then some. Although all of the 18 songs on this single-disc anthology were on King of the Blues, this is a more manageable survey of the same era. Not an era, it should be said, that was King's best, with more ordinary material and less canny production than was used on his best earlier work. It does, however, have some of the better cuts from his 1970s recordings, such as "Going Down," "Lowdown in Lodi," the string-drenched Leon Russell tune "Help Me Through the Day," the brassy instrumental "Guitar Boogie," and covers of chestnuts like "Reconsider Baby," "I'd Rather Be Blind," and "Please Send Me Someone to Love." ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	06/20/2000
Label:	The Right Stuff
UPC:	0724352724529
Rank:	40978

Tracks

1. Going Down
2. Five Long Years
3. Palace of the King
4. Same Old Blues
5. Walking by Myself
6. Living on the Highway
7. I'd Rather Be Blind
8. Reconsider Baby
9. Big Leg Woman (With a Short Short Mini Skirt)
10. Lowdown in Lodi
11. Me and My Guitar
12. Woman Across the River
13. Help Me Through the Day
14. Boogie Man
15. I'm Ready
16. Please Send Me Someone to Love
17. Ain't No Big Deal on You
18. Guitar Boogie

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Freddie King   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Donald "Duck" Dunn   Bass
Kathi McDonald   Vocals (Background)
Chuck Blackwell   Drums
Carl Radle   Bass
Leon Russell   Guitar
Jim Gordon   Drums
Jim Keltner   Drums
The O'Neal Twins   Vocals (Background)
Claudia Lennear   Vocals (Background)
Don Preston   Guitar,Vocals (Background)
Charles Myers   Drums
Joey Cooper   Vocals (Background)
Rev. Patrick Henderson   Piano,Guitar

Technical Credits

Bill Dahl   Compilation Producer,Liner Notes
Bettye Crutcher   Composer
Chris Clough   Producer
James A. Lane   Composer
James Lane   Composer
Don Nix   Composer,Producer
Evren Goeknar   Mastering
Eddie Boyd   Composer
Donald "Duck" Dunn   Composer
Freddie King   Composer
M. Campbell   Composer
John Fogerty   Composer
John Fry   Mixing,Engineer
Lowell Fulson   Composer
Percy Mayfield   Composer
Tom Cartwright   Executive Producer
Chuck Blackwell   Composer
Bryan Kelley   Producer
Leon Russell   Mixing,Composer,Producer
Jim Messina   Composer
Milton Campbell   Composer
Willie Dixon   Composer
Bernadette Fauver   Producer
Charles Blackwell   Composer
Israel Tolbert   Composer
Gladys Sanchez   Producer
John LeMay   Engineer
Allen Jones   Composer