king's contract with federal expired in 1966, and his first overseas tour followed in 1967. his availability was noticed by the producer and saxophonist king curtis, who had recorded a cover of "hide away", with cornell dupree on guitar, in 1962. curtis signed king to atlantic in 1968, which resulted in two lps, "freddie king is a blues master" (1969) and "my feeling for the blues" (1970), produced by curtis for the atlantic subsidiary cotillion records.