King of the blues : the rise and reign of B.B. King
De Visé, Daniel2022
Book
Riley 'Blues Boy' King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in 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, 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. This book presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant.
Main title:
King of the blues : the rise and reign of B.B. King / Daniel de Visé.
Author:
De Visé, Daniel, author
Imprint:
London : Grove Press UK, 2022.
Collation:
496 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781611854350 (pbk)
Dewey class:
782.421643092B.KINBIOGRAPHY 782.421643KIN
Language:
English
BRN:
3313170