Loudini Interviews Guy King

www.loudinirockandrollcircus.com The Loudini Rock and Roll Circus Interview Edition featuring GUY KING Hosted by Lou Lombardi aka Loudini Bluesman Guy King has a somewhat different life story than T-Bone Walker, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong and the other African-American musical legends he grew up revering. For King was born and raised in Israel, inexorably gravitating to the city that helped electrify the blues in the mid-20th century and nurtured jazz long before that: Chicago. So when the singer-guitarist headlines the fourth annual Israeli Jazz & World Music Festival, which runs Thursday through June 2, his personal narrative will reflect the nature and purpose of this remarkable event — to show the deep (though not obvious) links between roots music made in America and its offshoots on the other side of the world. For Israel long has been a cauldron of new sounds inspired by American music, and King came under the spell of these faraway idioms as a child.