FREDDIE KING BURGLAR
Original Release Date: 1974
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Produced in part by Mike Vernon, who worked on The Legendary Christine Perfect Album, this is an entertaining and concise package of ten songs performed by the late Freddie King and a slew of guests. Opening with Gonzalez Chandler's "Pack It Up," featuring the Gonzalez Horn Section, the youthful legend was only 40 years of age when he cut this career LP two years before his death. Though no songs went up the charts like his Top Five hit in 1961, "Hide Away," Burglar is one of those gems that journeymen can put together in their sleep. Tom Dowd produced "Sugar Sweet" at Criteria Studios in Miami, FL, featuring Jamie Oldaker on drums, Carl Radle on bass, and guitarists Eric Clapton and George Terry, which, of course, makes this album highly collectable in the Clapton circles. The sound doesn't deviate much from the rest of the disc's Mike Vernon production work; it is pure Freddy King, like on the final track, E. King's "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)," where his guitar bursts through the horns and party atmosphere, creating a fusion of the pure blues found on "Sugar Sweet" and the rock that fans of Grand Funk grooved to when he opened for that group and was immortalized in their 1973 number one hit "We're an American Band" a year after this record's release.
Recorded at the Chipping Norton Studios, Oxfordshire, England and Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida.
Personnel includes: Freddie King (vocals, guitar); Chris Mercer, Mick Eves, Steve Gregory (tenor saxophone); Bud Beadle (baritone saxophone); Roy Davies (elctric piano, Clavinet); Brian Auger (organ); DeLisle Harper (bass); Steve Ferrone (drums); Pat Arnold, Misty Browning (background vocals).
1. Pack It Up 4:10
2. My Credit Didn't Go Through 4:10
3. I Got The Same Old Blues 3:25
4. Only Getting Second Best 3:50
5. Texas Flyer 3:48
6. Pulp Wood 3:13
7. She's A Burglar 3:52
8. Sugar Sweet 2:52
9. I Had A Dream 5:02
10. Let The Good Times Roll
