One evening in 1984 or 85 my father came home with this album \u2013 Albert King \u2018New Orleans Heat\u2019. He told me he had heard it on the radio late at night and had to get it because he loved the song he had heard \u2018The Feeling\u2019.
\nI was 14 or 15 and already developed a rising interest in Blues. As a guitar playing teenager in the mid 80\u2019s naturally my main blues guitar hero was Stevie Ray Vaughan but I guess this Albert King album opened the door for me into the real deal guys like Otis Rush, Little Milton, Jimmy Johnson and others. Why this late 70\u2019s mix of deep Blues and lush, funky arrangements struck a chord with a German teenager – I don’t know. I guess you don’t choose your taste in music – it just happens when you can connect to it.\u00a0 I spent many hours jamming to \u2018New Orleans Heat\u2019 in my room and I think it influenced my style of playing and my taste in blues music to this day although I was also strongly into Texas guitar players and Jump Blues in my twenties.<\/p>\n
Albert King to me is like a slow driving Ferrari. You can feel the immense power and energy but he doesn\u2019t have to prove it \u2013 it\u2019s there all the time. The \u201eVelvet Bulldozer\u201c also had the fitting authority for his mostly no-nonsense song material. Albert King\u2019s singing and playing was always strong and relaxed at the same time. He never overplayed but very rarely he did fire from all cylinders and showed everybody how it\u2019s done with just a few notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10979","bluesvdmaand","type-bluesvdmaand","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n