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5 de oct. de 2021 · As blues royalty and one of the 20th century’s most influential musicians, B.B. King (1925-2015) has long deserved a well-considered biography that places his achievements in a cultural and historical context. This is it.
13 de oct. de 2021 · He largely dismisses that it had any influence at all by quoting David Ritz, the White co-author of King’s memoir “Blues All Around Me”: “For a guy who grew up in a period of American ...
8 de oct. de 2021 · B.B. King was born in the heartland of the blues, but his musical education took in a world of song. King claimed his fingers were too stubby to play Delta-style slide guitar—the style he ...
12 de oct. de 2021 · Daniel de Visé, author of definitive B.B. King biography, "King of the Blues," will discuss his book in Memphis on Oct. 16.
15 de sept. de 2021 · Ask any blues musician what they think of B.B. King and you’ll hear the same accolades and a lot of emotional outbursts. Naturally, there’s far more to a person than that, good and bad. Youth. Our main character was born Riley King in 1925 and grew up a child of the American south, in rural Mississippi.
King’s fluid guitar riffs and lead runs still define the blues for many fans. Eric Clapton called King “the most important artist the blues has ever produced,” but as journalist Daniel de Visé points out in his absorbing new biography, King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King , King’s journey to such acclaim was never easy.
5 de oct. de 2021 · B.B. King, who died in 2015 at age 89, gets the royal treatment from his biographer, and rightly so. We get it all, a life in full ... The author is especially good at showing that, while King was born in Mississippi and grew up when early legends of the genre were active, he wasn’t shaped just in the usual way ...
