Freddie King | Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

The 27th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Public Hall, Cleveland, Ohio
CLASS OF 2012 | April 14, 2012

EARLY INFLUENCES CATEGORY
00:23 Billy Gibbons & Dusty Hill (ZZ Top) Induct Freddie King
03:17 Acceptance Speech (Wanda King, Freddie's daughter)
08:16 Hide Away (Joe Bonamassa, Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Derek Trucks)
12:37 Going Down (Joe Bonamassa, Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Derek Trucks)

PERSONNEL
Dusty Hill – vocals, bass guitar
Billy Gibbons – guitar
Joe Bonamassa – vocals, guitar
Derek Trucks – guitar
Paul Shaffer – keyboards, bandleader, musical director
Anton Fig – drums

He didn’t just play the guitar—he attacked it.
His authoritative presence and vigorous showmanship earned him the nickname the “Texas Cannonball.” His heavy-handed licks can still be heard today in the playing of Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor, all King acolytes.

Blues innovator Freddie King sang like a lion and struck his guitar’s strings with rattlesnake intensity. Those talents, along with his compositional brilliance, took King to the pinnacle of success in the blues world of the sixties and seventies.
Thanks to his ingenious gift for hooks and melodies, his 1961 instrumental hits, “Hide Away” and “San-Ho-Zay,” shattered the race-music barrier and crashed the pop charts. Kings songs, like his 1960 Federal Records single “You’ve Got to Love Her With a Feeling,” backed with “Have You Ever Loved a Woman,” carry an emotional charge that still showers sparks across the decades.

Freddie King (September 3, 1934 | Gilmer, Texas, U.S. – December 28, 1976 | Dallas, Texas, U.S.) was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with Albert King and B. B. King, none of whom was a blood relative). Mostly known for his soulful and powerful voice and distinctive guitar playing, King had a major influence on electric blues music and on many later blues guitarists.

Born in Gilmer, Texas, King became acquainted with the guitar at the age of six. He started learning the guitar from his mother and his uncle. King moved to Chicago when he was a teenager; there he formed his first band the Every Hour Blues Boys with guitarist Jimmie Lee Robinson and drummer Frank "Sonny" Scott. As he was repeatedly being rejected by Chess Records, he got signed to Federal Records, and got his break with single "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" and instrumental "Hide Away", which reached number five on the Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues chart in 1961.

It later became a blues standard. King based his guitar style on Texas blues and Chicago blues influences. The album Freddy King Sings showcased his singing talents and included the record chart hits "You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling" and "I'm Tore Down". He later became involved with producers who were more oriented to rhythm and blues and rock and was one of the first bluesmen to have a multiracial backing band at performances.

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by ZZ Top in 2012 and into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1982. His instrumental "Hide Away" was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of "500 Songs that Shaped Rock". He was ranked 19th in the Rolling Stone magazine's 2023 edition of 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

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00:23 Billy Gibbons & Dusty Hill (ZZ Top) Induct Freddie King
03:17 Acceptance Speech (Wanda King, Freddie's daughter)
08:16 Hide Away (Joe Bonamassa, Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Derek Trucks)
12:37 Going Down (Joe Bonamassa, Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Derek Trucks)

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