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▄▄▓██████▓▄▄▄▄ artist..: willie king ░ ▀ ▐▓▌
▓███████████████▓▄▄ album...: jukin at betties ▓█▓
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▓████████▓▓ ▀█▓ genre..: blues ███
▓████████▓▌ █▓ ripdate: 01.28.2005 ██▓
▌ ▀▓███████▓▄ ▐▓▌ reldate: 00.00.2004 █▓▒
▓ ▀▀▀▀██████▓▄ █▓▓ ripper.: Team SSR ▓▒░
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▐▓███████▓▓ Although Willie King mostly plays in and around ▓▓███████▓▌
▓▓███████▓▓ his home in Pickens County, Alabama, he is ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ gaining an international reputation for his ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ vibrant boogie juke joint blues and the power of ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ his message. He has twice been awarded the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ prestigious Living Blues Magazine "Blues Artist ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ of the Year" in 2001 and 2003. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Willie King was born in Prairie Point, MS, in ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ 1943. After his father left, Willie and his ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ siblings was raised by his grandparents, local ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ sharecroppers. Music was important to the King ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ family - Willie's grandfather was a gospel ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ singer, and his absent father was an amateur ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ blues musician. Young Willie made a diddley bo ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ by nailing a baling wire to a tree in the yard. ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ By age 9 he had a one-string guitar that he ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ could bring indoors to play at night. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ In 1967, Willie King moved to Chicago in an ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ attempt to make more money than he could down ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ South. After a year spent on the West and South ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Side, he returned to Old Memphis, Alabama, just ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ across the border from the Mississippi Prairie. ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ A salesman - of shoes, cologne, and other ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ frivolities - Willie traveled the rural roads ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ hawking goods and talking politics. Choosing not ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ to work under the "old system" of unequal ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ treatment, King joined the civil rights movement ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ near the end of the decade, eventually ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ associating with the left-wing Highlander ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Center. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ By the late 1970s, King was writing what he ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ calls "struggling songs" - political blues tunes ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ that he used to educate his audiences. As King ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ explains "through the music I could reach more ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ people, get 'em to listen." Yet as his ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ rollicking blues style attests, King still knows ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ how to have a good time. He played the juke ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ circuit and bootlegged whiskey on the side, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ resorting to popular blues covers when the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ "struggling songs" upset a close-minded ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ audience. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ In 1987, a chance meeting at a festival in ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Eutaw, Alabama, blew Rooster Blues founder Jim ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ O'Neal away: According to O'Neal, King's ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ "juke-joint musical style and political lyrics ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ knocked me down." The two kept in touch for the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ next 13 years, during which O'Neal relocated his ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ label, and King concentrated on his own ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ community, forging relationships with local ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ youth through a blues education program, through ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ his organization The Rural Members Association. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ The Rural Members Association has sponsored ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ classes in music, woodworking, food ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ preservation, and other African-American ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ traditions, and has provided transportation, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ legal assistance, and other services for the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ needy over the past two decades. In recent years ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ he's been sponsoring a festival on the creek, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ which is as The Freedom Creek Festival. Willie ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ explains, "We was targetin' at tryin' to get all ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ walks of life, different people to come down and ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ kinda be with us in reality down there, you ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ know. Let's get back to reality, in the woods . ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ . . mix and mingle . . . get to know each other. ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Get up to have a workin' relationship, try to ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ bring peace . . ." ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ "Freedom Creek," Willie King's debut album on ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Rooster Blues Records, soon followed. Not only ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ was the album acclaimed by critics worldwide, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ but received awards from Living Blues Magazine ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ for Best Male Blues Artist (2001), Best Blues ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Album (2000) and Best Contemporary Blues Album ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ (2000). ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ King's follow up, Living In a New World, is ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ nothing short of spectacular. Produced by Jim ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ O'Neal and recorded at Easley studio in Memphis, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ the album is a hybrid of pure blues, rock, funk ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ and soul. The album reminds the listener of ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Curtis Mayfield while allowing RL Burnside fans ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ to rejoice as well. Blues scholar, political ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ activist and DJ John Sinclair, who shares ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Willie's worldview of politics and its effect on ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ everyday life, penned the liner notes. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓██████▓▓▌ 01. jukin at betties ▐▓▓██████▓▓
▓▓██████▓▓▌ 02. it takes a good woman ▐▓▓██████▓▓
▓▓██████▓▓▌ 03. thats what the blues is all about ▐▓▓██████▓▓
▓▓██████▓▓▌ 04. troubles to the wind ▐▓▓██████▓▓
▓▓██████▓▓▌ 05. dont blame it on me ▐▓▓██████▓▓
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