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Blues Legend dead..
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Avante
Get in here and pay your respect...and give me a B.B. King breakdown of his career
RIP B.B. King
Truly tragic. Nothing worse than someone taken down in their prime.
RIP.
RIP
RIP..
Passed up a chance to see one of his shows a few years ago. Shame now.
I never got or understood that kind of music..to be honest I dont like it...therefore I've never listened to a B.B. King song....I heard he was a blues legend but that kind of music sounded like crap to me..,it did nothing for me...soon as I would hear it I would turn that off...nothing against BB....but that ing music sucks....
RIP BB
The thrill is definitely gone. Get in here AVANTE... carry the torch.
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Blind Lemon Jefferson
Robert Johnson
Muddy Waters
B.B. King
Born Riley B. King Sept 16 1925 in Indianola Miss
His big influense was gospel music as a kid and jazz guitar legends Charley Christian and Django Rhinehardt. His cousin Bukka White one of the legendary Delta cats another influense, he recorded in 1930.
After the war BB landed a gig in Memphis working for a local radio statio WDIA. Yep, a disc jockey. He became...Beale Street Blues Boy. Later shorten to...B.B.King.
Funny thing about his story is how his first recordings in 1949 bombed. They were for the Bullet label out of Nashville. He cut 4 forgettable sides. Like Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Howlin' Wolf and Carl Perkins his big break came from Sam Phillips. And it was a cover of a Lowell Fulsons "Three O' Clock Blues" and it is not superior to Fulsons classic. This was in 1951.
"The Thrill Is Gone"...is The BB King tune in my opinion. His cool way of communicating the mood of his songs and his smooth delivery a little different and he made it work. He was never a lowdown back in the alley bluesman like John Lee Hooker. Which is ok, if ya need lowdown, listen to John Lee Hooker, ha~~
BB King being one of the few blues cats (Jimmy Reed) to be played by rock stations.
You didn't have to be a blues fan to know who BB King was, that right there says it all about what was the greatest career ever seen by a bluesman. All of us who love the music know the impact he made.
BB couldn't sing and play guitar a little thing that kinda goes unnoticed, he'd pick and then sing. Yep, unique.
The blues lost one of it's true legends and he will be missed by all of us who love to wander around dusty dirt roads for no reason at all.
R.I.P
Last edited by Avante; 05-15-2015 at 09:08 AM.
Didnt know he sang that..that's alright
RIP to a blues legend.
Jimmie Rodgers "The Father of Country Music" was just a white bluesman, he talked about listening to blacks sing them blues growing up in Mississippi.
Elivis's big influense was them blues, his first record "That's Alright Mama" a cover of a Big Boy Crudup tune. His "Hound Dog" a cover of a Big Mama Thornton tune.
The Rolling Stones, got that name from a 1951 Muddy Waters tune.."Rolling Stones" Brian Jones worshipped slide guitarist Elmore James.
When The Beatles first landed in America, a reporter stuck a mic in the face of John Lennon and asked.."so what;s the first thing you wanna do"....Lennon replied..."meet Muddy Waters".
Led Zepplelin has covered a lot of old blues tunes, "When The Levee Breaks" an old Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy tune.
Janis Joplins huge influense was blues legend Bessie Smith.
Jimi Hendrix grew up listening to blues, his big influense Guitar Slim.
Bob Dylan a huge fan of Georgia's Blind Willie Mctell.
Pink Floyd got that name from prewar blues cats, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
Hank Williams played a ton of blues.
And it goes on and on and......
A rare sight....
Last edited by Avante; 05-15-2015 at 09:46 AM.
not even a blues thread is safe
BB couldn't say enought about.....
It doesn't help that you're a white teenager
Whites been playing them blues forever.
Last edited by Avante; 05-15-2015 at 10:14 AM.
Ali took them boys back to Africa.
In Bill Wymans (yep,Rolling Stones) "Blues Odyssey" a fantastic book on them blues with a CD. There is a chapter on the slave trade and how the blacks arrived and that experience, yep, the true blues roots.
Passed through Indianola, MS last September and went to the BB King Museum. Great collection of blues and civil rights.
RIP
BB was a big fan of Western Swing, of all things. Caught him lurking at the back of the Ft Worth convention center during the AWA awards in the late 90's. He knew the acts and alot of the artists...including the sidemen. Pretty sharp memory.
RIP BB.
You should check out Night Ranger. They are ing indefensible.
I looked in the stacks and didn't find the citation, so I'll go, Ben E. King also went, April 30th.
Here, his "Stand By Me" taken from the scriptures & written by King weds him at the moment he hit & then hits again:::
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