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>CI:GK>:L “Everything leads me back to the feeling of the blues.” B.B. King, by William R. Ferris B.B. King’s performances and recordings have shaped the blues for more than six decades, reaching out to each new generation in terms they understand and embrace. His career is truly unique and includes over seven hundred recordings, as well as meetings with presidents, heads of state, and the Pope. B.B. King at Yale University’s graduation, New Haven, Connecticut, . All photographs (unless otherwise noted) are courtesy of the William R. Ferris Collection in Wilson Library’s Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. >CIGD9J8I>DC B.B. King’s name is synonymous with the blues. At the age of eighty-one, the blues patriarch maintains a rigorous schedule of performances throughout the nation and overseas that would exhaust a much younger artist. King’s perfor- mances and recordings have shaped the blues for more than six decades, reaching out to each new generation in terms they understand and embrace. As an artist, B.B. King defies definition. Born Riley B. King in on a plan- tation in the Mississippi Delta near the towns of Itta Bena and Indianola, he was profoundly shaped by
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Oct 18, 2006
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