Taking Care of Business: 1956-1973

Freddie King

Bear Family

A 7 CD, 167 track box set. David Newman plays on some of the tracks.

Tracks

• Country Boy (Whitfield)
• That's What You Think (Washington / Whitfield)
• You Know That You Love Me (But You Never Tell Me So) (King / Thompson)
• See See Baby (King / Thompson)
• You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling (King)
• Have You Ever Loved a Woman (Myles)
• Hide Away (King / Thompson)
• I Love the Woman (Myles / Nathan)
• Lonesome Whistle Blues (Moore / Teat / Toombs)
• If You Believe (In What You Do) (Lamont / Thompson / Toombs)
• It's Too Bad (Things Are Going So Tough) (King)
• I'm Tore Down (Thompson)
• Butterscotch (Onion Rings) (King / Thompson)
• Sen-Sa-Shun (King / Thompson)
• Side Tracked (King / Thompson)
• The Stumble (King / Thompson)
• San-Ho-Zay (King / Thompson)
• Wash Out (King / Thompson)
• You Know That You Love Me (But You Never Tell Me So) (King / Thompson)
• See See Baby (King / Thompson)
• You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling (King)
• Have You Ever Loved a Woman (Myles)
• Butterscotch (Onion Rings) (King / Thompson)
• Butterscotch (Onion Rings) (King / Thompson)
• Wash Out (King / Thompson)
• Just Pickin' (King / Thompson)
• Heads Up (King / Thompson)
• Christmas Tears (Thompson / Wilson)
• Let Me Be (Stay Away from Me) (Thompson)
• Takin' Care of Business (Toombs)
• You Mean, Mean Woman (How Can Your Love Be True) (Thompson / Willis)
• I Hear Jingle Bells (Bridge)
• In the Open (King / Thompson)
• Out Front (King / Thompson)
• Swooshy (King / Thompson)
• Closed Door (High Rise) (Bridge / King / Thompson)
• Texas Oil (Bridge / King / Thompson)
• She Put the Whammy on Me (Bridge / King / Thompson)
• I'm on My Way to Atlanta (Bridge / King / Thompson)
• Over Drive (The Untouchable Glide) ( 02:48
• Driving Sideways (Bridge / King / Thompson)
• Sittin' on the Boat Dock (Thompson)
• Come On (Roberts)
• Do the President Twist (Bridge / Thompson)
• (Let Your Love) Watch Over Me (Teat / Toombs)
• You Can't Hide (King / Toombs)
• It's Easy Child (Bennett / Redd / Sandler)
• Just Pickin' (King / Thompson)
• Heads Up (King / Thompson)
• Closed Door (High Rise) (Bridge / King / Thompson)
• I'm on My Way to Atlanta (Bridge / King / Thompson)
• Your Love Keeps A-Working on Me (Bridge / Thompson)
• What About Love (Taylor)
• Bossa Nova Blues (King / Thompson)
• The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist (King / Thompson)
• Freeway 75 (King / Thompson)
• Walk Down That Aisle (Honey Chile) (King / Thompson)
• Someday, After Awhile (You'll Be Sorry) (King / Thompson)
• You Walked In (Denby)
• You're Barkin' Up the Wrong Tree (Johnson / Johnson)
• Is My Baby Mad at Me (Starr)
• (The Welfare) Turns Its Back on You (Lucious Porter Weaver / Thompson)
• It Hurts to Be in Love (Dixon / Toombs)
• Look Ma, I'm Cryin' (Harris / King / Toombs)
• (I'd Love To) Make Love to You (Nardo / Thorne)
• One Hundred Years (Toombs / Watkins)
• Now I've Got a Woman (Dellerson)
• Surf Monkey (Thompson)
• If You Have It (Phillips / Stephens)
• Low Tide (Zoo Surfin') (Nathan / Thompson)
• Remington Ride (Penny)
• Monkey Donkey (Thompson)
• Walk Down That Aisle (Honey Chile) (King / Thompson)
• Meet Me at the Station (Davis / Redd)
• Full Time Love (Thompson)
• King-A-Ling (King / Thompson)
• I Love You More Every Day (Teat)
• Teardrops on Your Letter (Glover)
• Some Other Day, Some Other Time (Stryker / Washington)
• She's the One (Ballard)
• She's That Kind (King / Thompson / Welch)
• Man Hole (King / Thompson)
• Fish Fare (Thompson)
• Funny Bone (King / King / Thompson)
• Cloud Sailin' (Don't Move) (King / Thompson)
• The Sad Nite Owl (Thompson)
• Nickel Plated (Thompson)
• Freddy's Midnite Dream (Thompson)
• Girl from Kookamunga (King / Ridgley)
• You've Got Me Licked (King / McCracklin)
• Double Eyed Whammy (King / Ridgley)
• Use What You've Got (King)
• The Mojo (Lenoir)
• Play It Cool (King)
• Untitled Instrumental #1 (King)
• Untitled Instrumental #2 (King)
• Untitled Instrumental #3 (King)
• Hide Away (King / Thompson)
• Funky (King Curtis / King)
• Blue Shadows (Lloyd C. Glenn)
• Play It Cool (King)
• That Will Never Do (Campbell / Lyons)
• It's Too Late, She's Gone (Willis)
• Sweet Thing (King Curtis)
• Get out of My Life Woman (Toussaint)
• Hot Tomato (King Curtis)
• Wide Open (King)
• Let Me Down Easy (King Curtis)
• Today I Sing the Blues (Lewis)
• Yonder Wall (James)
• I Wonder Why (Josea / Riley B. King)
• I Don't Know (Mabon / Thomas)
• My Feeling for the Blues (King / Ousley)
• The Stumble (King)
• Stormy Monday (Aaron "T-Bone" Walker)
• What'd I Say (Charles)
• Ain't Nobody's Business What We Do (Grainger / Robbins)
• You Don't Have to Go (Reed)
• Woke Up This Morning (King / Taub)
• The Things I Used to Do (Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones)
• Same Old Blues (Nix)
• Dust My Broom (James)
• Worried Life Blues (Big Maceo)
• Five Long Years (Boyd)
• Key to the Highway (Broonzy / Segar)
• Going Down (Nix)
• Living on the Highway (Nix / Russell)
• Walking by Myself (Lane)
• Tore Down (Thompson)
• Palace of the King (Dunn / Nix / Russell)
• Gimme Some Lovin' (Winwood)
• Please Send Me Someone to Love (Mayfield)
• That's All Right (Rogers)
• The Same Thing (Dixon)
• Tore Down (Thompson)
• Dust My Broom (James)
• Can't Trust Your Neighbor (Hayes / Porter)
• You Was Wrong (Hill)
• How Many More Years (Burnett)
• Ain't No Sunshine (Withers)
• The Sky Is Crying (James / Lewis / Robinson)
• Love Her with a Feeling (King)
• Somebody Got to Go (King)
• Pulpwood (King)
• Hide Away (King / Thompson)
• Lowdown in Lodi (Fogerty)
• Reconsider Baby (Fulson)
• Big Legged Woman (Tolbert)
• Me and My Guitar (Blackwell / Russell)
• I'd Rather Be Blind (Russell)
• Something You Got (Kenner)
• Ain't No Bid Deal on You (Campbell)
• I Just Want to Make Love to You (Dixon)
• It Hurts Me To (Whittaker)
• Boogie Fuck (Guitar Boogie) (King)
• Woman Across the River (Allen Jones Jr. / Crutcher)
• I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Dixon)
• Danger Zone (Mayfield)
• Boogie Man (Blackwell / Russell)
• Leave My Woman Alone (Charles)
• Just a Little Bit (Gordon)
• Yonder Wall (James)
• Help Me Through the Day (Russell)
• I'm Ready (Dixon)
• Trouble in Mind (Jones)
• You Don't Have to Go (Reed)
• Goin' Down (Nix)

Hide Away, Funky, Blue Shadows, Play It Cool, That Will Never Do, It's Too Late, She's Gone, Sweet Thing, Get out of My Life Woman, Hot Tomato, Wide Open, Let Me Down Easy and Today I Sing the Blues, at the end of CD4 and start of CD 5, were originally released on:

• Freddie King Is a Blues Master, Freddie King, 1969