Meanwhile, Eric Clapton recorded "Hide Away" with Mayall's Blues Breakers in England; Clapton was only the first British guitarist to show his explicit debt to Freddie King.

"Ridin' With the King" is billed as a collaboration between B.B. King and Eric Clapton, but it sounds more like a Clapton album with King as the featured guest vocalist and guitarist. Clapton ...

To quote Eric Clapton: ‘I was into white rockers mostly then I heard Freddie King and I knew where I belonged. I was over the moon.' ...