Zig marasigan biography of albert king

King, Freddie King, and himself. His style of single-string-bending intensity—the essence of blues guitar—is evident in the approaches of thousands of acolytes, including Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Eric Clapton. He had twelve known siblings. His father, Will Nelson or stepfather, according to some sources , an amateur guitarist, had a major impact on his music.

Though he was mainly self-taught, he was inspired by Blind Lemon Jefferson. His singing in a family gospel group at a nearby church also influenced his music.

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He first played professionally in and around Osceola Mississippi County , where he moved with his family in and where he heard such legendary Delta blues regulars as Elmore James and Robert Nighthawk while he played in a group named In the Groove Boys. In the early s, he was in Gary, Indiana, where he briefly played drums behind Jimmy Reed, perhaps the most popular bluesman of the s.

He started recording in for the Parrot label, but he received little remuneration for that work, so he moved to St. Louis, Missouri. There, he recorded for the Bobbin and King labels. Jimi Hendrix and John Mayall followed him onstage, but King stole the show and became a regular attraction at the Fillmore West. In , he recorded with the St.

Louis Symphony Orchestra, becoming one of the first blues performers to unite blues and classical music. For the rest of his life, he toured regularly and often indiscriminately.