Now 51, Gales has come a long way since breaking onto the scene as an electric guitar–playing child prodigy. “So this was part of my lineage way before I came.”Although his grandfather kept his religious and secular worlds separated, Gales’ uncle did not. “Little Jimmy King — he took ‘Jimi’ from Jimi Hendrix and ‘King’ from Albert King — had his own record deal, and at a certain point, he went out with Albert King on the road. He took that from Albert King,” Gales told Guitar World of his brother last year. Now a grandfather himself, Gales is carving the family name into the annals of blues-rock history at long last.