text:  Blues man little Freddie King hopped on a train from Macomb, Mississippi to New Orleans as a youth in the early 1950s. Over the years, he's developed his own electric country blues style. Life hasn't always been easy for Freddie, but he says he's blessed with at least nine lives. He has survived jumping from high-speed boxcars, the floods of Hurricane Katrina, bouts with alcohol poisoning, and a shootout with a jealous wife. They later reconciled.