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B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the "King of the Blues" (Hardcover)
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B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the "King of the Blues" (Hardcover)
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This book documents a great American story, that of B.B. King, the
King of the Blues, and one of Americas most important popular
musicians. With fascinating images and historymost published for
the first timeit traces his migration from the Chitlin Circuit (the
national network of Black theaters and roadhouses), to Club Ebony
in his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and eventually to
Carnegie Hall. What was it about Riley B. King that enabled him to
become the worldwide King of the Blues? The authors quest to answer
that question is chronicled here and tells the story of the
once-impossible friendship between someone who grew up poor and
Black in Mississippi and the white middle-class New Englander who
fell in love with the blues and was determined to tell the story of
his musical hero. King thrilled his audiences not only with his
musical prowess, but with his capacity to establish intimacy,
regardless of crowd size; he gave an estimated 18,000 concerts in
90 countries. B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon tells the story of
Kings journey from sharecropper to musical icon, one who brought
the music of Americathe bluesto the world. It is a book for blues
fans and others who want to know how and why this transformation
occurred.
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