Your browser does not support the audio element. “Mean Little Woman” from “Swamp Boogie.”

Your browser does not support the audio element. “Wacko” Wade Wright on touring Europe.

Fans dance to King’s music at the Blackpot Festival in Lafayette, Louisiana. Photo by Barry Yeoman.

2006 Rome festival poster. Courtesy of Little Freddie King.

Your browser does not support the audio element. George Green on Hollie’s.

Your browser does not support the audio element. King on the small-town roots of Givens’ fish fries.

Guitar Lightnin’ Lee with King. Photo by Barry Yeoman.

In her book The Warmth of Other Suns, journalist Isabel Wilkerson called the Great Migration “the first big step the nation’s servant class ever took without asking.”

Times-Picayune notice of King’s LP.

Amy Green Martin’s bail order.