![]() ![]() social fabric, especially the civil rights movement. ![]() The book expertly interweaves King’s music career into the U.S. /rebates/2f97800620610342fBlues-Around-Autobiography-King-Ritz-00620610382fplp&. ![]() King was born on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta. Life as weve lived it in the past, life as were living it today and life as I believe well live tomorrow.' The undisputed monarch of the blues guitar, B.B. Though de Visé ploughs through a seemingly endless series of King’s records, performances, love affairs, and gambling-induced IRS troubles, the narrative remains engaging. 'You have a soul, you have a heart, you have a feeling, and your music is life. The book covers King’s crossover popularity with white audiences, his rise to international fame during the late 1960s, his decline a decade later, and his subsequent resurgence. The author identifies King’s musical influences (blues guitarists Lonnie Johnson and T-Bone Walker French guitarist Django Reinhardt) and details his stint at the Memphis radio station WDIA and his signing with Modern Records, which catapulted him onto the R&B charts. King: The Authorized Biography and dozens of interviews, he begins with his subject’s impoverished childhood in Mississippi and his backbreaking work as a young tenant farmer. Drawing material from King’s autobiography, Blues All Around Me Charles Sawyer’s The Arrival of B. B. Author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist de Visé ( Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show) has written the definitive biography of blues master Riley “B. B.” King (1925–2015). ![]()
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