Alabama Slim grew up on a farm in Alabama where he learned to sing blues from his grandparents while they worked. He later moved to New Orleans in the 1960s and has performed blues music for audiences in the US and abroad. Little Freddie's father was a blues guitarist who brought him along to performances in the Mississippi Delta as a child. He became a charter member of the New Orleans Jazz Festival and toured Europe with Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker. Their music was featured in the movie "Redemption Road."

1. Alabama Slim &
Little Freddie King

3. Alabama Slim
“I grew up listening to
the old blues since I
was a child. I spent
summers with my
grandparents who had
a farm. Them old folks
would get to moanin‟
while they
worked, and I just
started moanin‟ with
them. That‟s where I
learned to sing.”
– Alabama Slim

5. Slim grew up playing in juke
joints in Alabama and moved to
New Orleans in the „60s. His
music has been enjoyed by
audiences at performances in
the States and abroad.

7. Little Freddie
His father, Jessie
James Martin, was
a blues guitarist that
worked the
weekend black
southern circuit in
the Delta. His father
would bring him out
on the town when
he was out there
playing.

8. "I would go out
there and sit
around on the
outside around
the juke joints
and listening. He's
be playin and
drinking and
everyone was
havin' fun.”
- Little Freddie

9. He became a charter member
an annual attraction at the New
Orleans Jazz Festival and toured
Europe with Bo Diddley and
John Lee Hooker in 1976 in
support of his first LP.

12. Alabama Slim
and Little
Freddie King‟s
music was
featured in the
movie
“Redemption
Road”

16. Alabama Slim and Little Freddie King