I first heard this amazing tune in 1997, in South Korea. My roommate had a cassette called Essential Blues, Vol. 2. We played this tape all the time. Going Down was the first track on side 2, and my favorite track on the album. It is a tornado of raw blues guitar and pounding piano. I love those whoos! at around 1:34 and 2:43. Freddie King...wow. He was this huge powerful Texan moved to Chicago worked in a steel mill, blasted out notes on his guitar like dynamite, died way too young at 42 from the stress of the hard-working, hard-partying blues lifestyle.
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