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King of the Blues - The Rise and Reign of B.B. King (Paperback)
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King of the Blues - The Rise and Reign of B.B. King (Paperback)
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The first full and authoritative biography of an American--indeed a
world-wide--musical and cultural legend. "No one worked harder than
B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to
spread the gospel of the blues."--President Barack Obama "He is
without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever
produced."--Eric Clapton Riley "Blues Boy" King (1925-2015) was
born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from
his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving
him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from
exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister's
guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone
Walker, encouraged by his cousin, the established blues man Bukka
White, B.B. taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style
that, along with his relentless work ethic and humanity, became his
trademark. In turn, generations of artists claimed him as
inspiration, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to Carlos Santana
and the Edge. King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times
of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in
his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in 90
countries over nearly 60 years)--in some real way his means of
escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including his landmark
gig at Chicago's Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day.
His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he
always rose back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many
ways record companies took advantage of artists, especially those
of color. Daniel de Vise has interviewed almost every surviving
member of B.B. King's inner circle--family, band members,
retainers, managers, and more--and their voices and memories enrich
and enliven the life of this Mississippi blues titan, whom his
contemporary Bobby "Blue" Bland simply called "the man."
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