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Earl King

Earl King - Blues Guitarist, vocalist (1934 - 2003) Earl King, a native of New Orleans, was a flamboyant performer, singing with bluesy ease and playing guitar solos that curled and sliced across the rolling New Orleans beat. He recorded hundreds of songs that were rooted in both the 12-bar blues and New Orleans lore, with lyrics that could tell wry, compressed stories or come up with wild-eyed imagery. While Earl King performed widely, his songs also traveled by way of other musicians: Jimi Hendrix, who recorded King's ''Come On'' as ''Let the Good Times Roll,'' the Meters, who recorded ''Trick Bag,'' and Professor Longhair, who played piano and had the performer credit on the original 1964 version of King's ''Big Chief,'' although it featured King's vocals and whistling

New Orleans Blues

By EARL KING

Label: Tomato Records
Released: 2005

Come On: The Complete Imperial Recordings

By EARL KING

Label: Okra-Tone Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Love Me Now 2. The Things That I Used to Do 3. Come On (parts 1 and 2) 4. You

Earl King: Come On: The Complete Imperial Recordings

By CHARLIE B. DAHAN

With his recent passing, the career and importance of Earl King is an appropriate topic for examination. Earl King was born Earl Johnson. He was one of the important personalities of the distinctive New Orleans sound that was developed and recorded in the 1950’s, helping to define both rock and roll and R&B. Other artists of ...