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Freddie Roulette
12+ albums
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Frederick Martin "Freddie" Roulette (born May 3, 1939) is an American electric blues lap steel guitarist and singer. He is best known as an exponent of the lap steel guitar. Roulette is also a member of the Daphne Blue band and has collaborated with Earl Hooker, Charlie Musselwhite, Henry Kaiser and Harvey Mandel and released several solo albums. One commentator described Roulette as an "excellent musician". As of August 12, 2013, VidStatsX, a video statistic company, reported Freddie Roulette's work with the Daphne Blue band shows approximately 55,000 views on the video sharing site, YouTube. BIOGRAPHY Freddie Roulette's family originally came from New Orleans, however he was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. He learned to play steel guitar in high school. He started playing in clubs in Chicago in his teens, and in 1965 began work in Earl Hooker's backing band, continuing to tour and perform with him until 1969. "Earl Hooker was born in 1929 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker was a Chicago slide guitarist in the same league as Elmore James, Hound Dog Taylor, and Robert Nighthawk. Some Chicago blues guitarists even consider Hooker to have been the greatest slide player ever. He was a cousin of John Lee Hooker and taught himself to play guitar around the age of 10 and shortly thereafter his family migrated to Chicago. While a teen, Hooker performed on Chicago street corners, occasionally with Bo Diddley. He also developed a friendship with slide guitarist Robert Night
