MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      King Ernest "King Ernest" Baker was born May 5, 1939, in Natchez, Louisiana, and grew up across the river in nearby Vidalia. His father was a talented slide guitarist, and Ernest spent much of his childhood passing the cup for his dad in local honky-tonks. Though a talented math student, Ernest abandoned his schoolwork in the late 1950s and moved to Chicago, where he began performing in clubs on Chicago's South Side, sitting in on the same circuit that featured Tyrone Davis, Little Milton and Syl Johnson. He moved to New York City in 1964, where he cut one single, "I Feel Alright" b/w "I'm So Tired" for the Old Town label. When it failed to catch fire, he moved back to Chicago, where he recorded sporadically without much success. In 1980, Ernest headed west to Los Angeles in hopes of landing a record deal, but wound up working for the sheriff's department instead. He returned to music in 1994, playing blues up and down the coast, and singing gospel on Sundays at L.A.'s Crenshaw Christian Center. Ernest's first album, King of Hearts, was released by Evidence in 1997. His second, Blues Got Soul, came out on the Fat Possum label in 2000; unfortunately, Ernest never lived to see the album's release, having died within days of approving the final mix. He was 61.     King Ernest Suffer & Stay MP3 Blues A stirring ballad from the appropriately named Blues Got Soul CD, sung with a heartful of regret by a man who definitely died too soon.
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