B.B. King

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$75.00 / $49.50 / $39.50
On sale Friday, January 18 at 12pm
For more than half a century, Riley B. King - better known as B.B. King - has defined the blues for a worldwide audience, and at age 76, continues to wear his King of Blues crown well. Since B.B. started recording in the late 1940's, he has released over 60 albums, many of them considered blues classics, like 1965's definitive live blues album "Live At The Regal," and 1976's collaboration with Bobby "Blue" Bland, "Together For The… Show more First Time."
Riley B. King was born on September 16, 1925, on a cotton plantation in Itta Bene, Mississippi, just outside the Mississippi delta town of Indianola. He used to play on the corner of Church and Second Street for dimes and would sometimes play in as many as four towns on a Saturday night. With his guitar and $2.50, he hitch-hiked north to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1947 to pursue his musical career.
Soon after his number one hit, "Three O'Clock Blues," B.B. began touring nationally, and he has never stopped, performing an average of 125 concerts a year. In 1956 B.B. and his band played an astonishing 342 one-night stands. From the Chitlin Circuit with its small town cafes, ghetto theaters, country dance halls, and roadside joints to jazz clubs, rock palaces, symphony concert halls, college concerts, resort hotels and prestigious concert halls nationally and internationally, B.B. has become the most renowned blues musician of the past 60 years.

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