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• Getting Ready… was King’s first of three releases for Shelter Records, Leon Russell’s Tulsa-based label. In fact, when Russell first formed Shelter, he reportedly did so partly to play out his vision of recording one of his favorites, Freddie King.

  Recorded in October 1970 at the TER-MAR Chess Studios in Chicago and released in 1971, Getting Ready… is proof positive that King was the man and that Shelter Records was one cool label. The record includes a cover of Jimmy Rogers’ classic “Walking By Myself” and King references Rogers also in the lyrics of another track on the record, “Living On The Highway”. Rogers was the first artist to record for Acoustic Sounds’ own APO Records label and the first to appear in concert at Acoustic Sounds’ Blue Heaven Studios.

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