Freddie King: 'Feeling Alright,' 1975

The electric-blues guitarist is live in France on a new set from Elemental Music

I was 14 in 1971 and two years into a suburban stupor. My parents had moved an hour out of New York City in 1969 because they couldn’t afford private school for my younger brother and me in Manhattan. My younger brother loved the move. Not me.

That year, I also started taking the train alone into New York to buy jazz records at chain stores such as Sam G…