Win a copy of Freddie King’s exceptional RSD live album!

Feeling Alright: The Complete Nancy Pulsations Concert is a scorching-hot live show from the blues-rock legend.

One of the standouts of 2026’s Record Store Day was the release from Elemental Music of Freddie King’s 1975 performance at the Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival. Feeling Alright: The Complete 1975 Nancy Pulsations Concert was recorded by French radio at the time, with excerpts released on CD and LP in 1989. This new vinyl edition is the complete, uninterrupted show, newly cut to three LPs by Matthew Lutthans at the Mastering Lab. It’s astonishingly great-sounding.

From my review published earlier this year:

Less than 15 months after this performance, King would be dead at age 42, but at the time of this recording the guitarist/vocalist was musically at his peak... King and his powerhouse five-piece backing band meander in and out of all manner of blues chestnuts, dropping in verses from one song into the chord progression of another, adding vamps and turnarounds and making their blues a living tapestry that’s as fluid and free-flowing as a particularly nimble DJ set.

The triple vinyl set comes with a 12-page booklet that contextualizes King’s life and career... The audio is excellent; the show must have been very well recorded by French radio at the time, with each musician rendered clearly in the mix and the balance between the band and the French crowd (who you can audibly hear lose their minds on several occasions) expertly done. Matthew Lutthans has done a terrific job cutting the digitized audio to disc, with a substantial but not over-inflated soundstage, liveliness in the lows, mids, and highs, and a realistic, pleasing presentation that’s as effective as any live album recorded in the mid-’70s.

The epic scale of this show makes its consistency all the more remarkable. From the very first seconds, King and his crackerjack band fully press down on the gas and don’t let up for more than two hours... Record Store Day can be littered with opportunistic releases of live shows that are either barrel-scraping jobs or poor-sounding pseudo-boots. Feeling Alright is decidedly not one of them.

And now one paid subscriber can win a copy! This was unquestionably one of the best releases from this year’s RSD, and it remains a must-hear for anyone with even a casual interest in King’s music. In fact, even if you’re not really a blues fan, Feeling Alright is well worth hearing.

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