taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style that became his trademark. 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. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. Riley “Blues Boy” King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. “He is without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced.” -Eric Clapton No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues.” -President Barack Obama No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. Living Blues Award: Best Blues Book of 2021. Longlisted for the PEN America Award for Biography.Ī Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year.
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