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B.B. King Bio
His reign as King of the Blues has
been as long as that of any monarch on earth. Yet B.B. King continues to
wear his crown well. At age 76, he is still light on his feet, singing
and playing the blues with relentless passion. Time has no apparent
effect on B.B., other than to make him more popular, more cherished,
more relevant than ever. Don't look for him in some kind of
semi-retirement; look for him out on the road, playing for people,
popping up in a myriad of T.V. commercials, or laying down tracks for
his next album. B.B. King is as alive as the music he plays, and a
grateful world can't get enough of him.
For more than half a century, Riley B. King - better known as B.B. King
- has defined the blues for a worldwide audience. Since he started
recording in the 1940s, he has released over fifty albums, many of them
classics. He was born September 16, 1925, on a plantation in Itta Bena,
Mississippi, near Indianola. In his youth, he played on street corners
for dimes, and would sometimes play in as many as four towns a night. In
1947, he hitchhiked to Memphis, TN, to pursue his music career. Memphis
was where every important musician of the South gravitated, and which
supported a large musical community where every style of African
American music could be found. B.B. stayed with his cousin Bukka White,
one of the most celebrated blues performers of his time, who schooled
B.B. further in the art of the blues.
Over the years, B.B. has developed one of the world's most identifiable
guitar styles. He borrowed from Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker and
others, integrating his precise and complex vocal-like string bends and
his left hand vibrato, both of which have become indispensable
components of rock guitarist's vocabulary. His economy, his
every-note-counts phrasing, has been a model for thousands of players,
from Eric Clapton and George Harrison to Jeff Beck. B.B. has mixed
traditional blues, jazz, swing, mainstream pop and jump into a unique
sound.
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Denver, CO
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8.16.06
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Pavilion
Dayton,
OH
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8.19.06
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Pavilion
Highland
Park, IL
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8.20.06
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Cleveland, OH
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