Download or read book Blues All Around Me written by B. B. King and published by Sceptre. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than just an autobiography, this book also gives insight into the twentieth century social history. B.B.King's career has spanned more than sixty years and his story is for anyone even remotely interested in blues, rock or just a rise from rags to riches.
Download or read book King of the Blues written by Daniel de Vise and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full and authoritative biography of an American—indeed a world-wide—musical and cultural legend “No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues.”—President Barack Obama “He is without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced.”—Eric Clapton Riley “Blues Boy” King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. 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. taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style that, along with his relentless work ethic and humanity, became his trademark. In turn, generations of artists claimed him as inspiration, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to Carlos Santana and the Edge. King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in 90 countries over nearly 60 years)—in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including his landmark gig at Chicago’s Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always rose back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many ways record companies took advantage of artists, especially those of color. Daniel de Visé has interviewed almost every surviving member of B.B. King’s inner circle—family, band members, retainers, managers, and more—and their voices and memories enrich and enliven the life of this Mississippi blues titan, whom his contemporary Bobby “Blue” Bland simply called “the man.”
Download or read book B B King written by David McGee and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). The Lives in Music series meshes biography with discography. This debut title profiles the legendary King of Blues, B.B. King. An opening essay charts his life from childhood in the Mississippi Delta up to his first studio session. The author then takes an inside look at his distinguished career, album by album, offering a critical appraisal of each recording and a portrait of the making of each album. First-hand interviews with B.B. King, as well as producers, engineers, arrangers, and key musicians, bring these sessions to life and provide readers a context for understanding B.B. King's recordings in light of his career and life events that shaped them. This definitive book also incudes a complete history of every B.B. King session.
Download or read book B B King From Indianola to Icon written by Charles Sawyer and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B.B. King's journey from sharecropper to musical icon, one who brought the music of America--the blues--to the world.
Download or read book One Shoe Blues written by Sandra Boynton and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One Shoe Blues" presents a thoroughly captivating story and a dazzling music video on an accompanying 12-minute DVD. Boynton writes, designs, and directs (her first film ever), King stars (singing, playing, and turning in a wry and brilliant comic acting performance), and exuberant Boynton sock puppets chime in.
Download or read book The Arrival of B B King written by Charles Sawyer and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life and Legacy of B B King written by Diane Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the iconic blues musician features interviews with family members, fellow musicians, and those who knew his best. Born on a cotton plantation in 1925, Riley B. King would grow up to be one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, being crowned “The King of the Blues.” Never wavering from his vocation, King gathered other musicians together and melded them into the unique blues sound that would become his signature. In this intimate portrait of B. B. King, author Diane Williams offers a brief account of the monumental blues man's life before settling in for a series of interviews with his bandmates and beloved family members. The Life and Legacy of B. B. King offers an intimate view of the man behind the music.
Download or read book Blues Boy The Life and Music of B B King written by Sebastian Danchin and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book B B King Anthology Songbook written by B.B. King and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Recorded Versions). The All Music Guide praises B.B. King in no uncertain terms as "the single most important electric guitarist of the last half century." This outstanding book in our Guitar Recorded Versions series provides note-for-note transcriptions with tab for 35 hits from this living legend from 1950 to 2000, including: Ask Me No Questions * B.B. Blues * Bad Luck Soul * Chains and Things * Five Long Years * I Want You So Bad * King of Guitar * Lucille * Paying the Cost to Be the Boss * Riding with the King * Sweet Sixteen * The Thrill Is Gone * Watch Yourself * and more.
Download or read book B B King written by B.B. King and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Play-Along). The Guitar Play-Along series will help you play your favorites songs quickly and easily. Just follow the tab, listen to the audio to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate, sound-alike backing tracks! Melody and lyrics are also included in case you want to sing, too, or to simply help you follow along. Songs: Just like a Woman * Paying the Cost to Be the Boss * Please Accept My Love * Rock Me Baby * Sweet Little Angel * Sweet Sixteen * Why I Sing the Blues * You Upset Me Baby.
Download or read book The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music written by Dean Alger and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonnie Johnson (1894–1970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father’s band at an early age. When most of his family was wiped out by the 1918 flu epidemic, he and his surviving brother moved to St. Louis, where he won a blues contest that included a recording contract. His career was launched. Johnson can be heard on many Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong records, including the latter’s famous “Savoy Blues” with the Hot Five. He is perhaps best known for his 12-string guitar solos and his ground-breaking recordings with the white guitarist Eddie Lang in the late 1920s. After World War II he began playing rhythm and blues and continued to record and tour until his death. This is the first full-length work on Johnson. Dean Alger answers many biographical mysteries, including how many members of Johnson’s large family were left after the epidemic. It also places Johnson and his musical contemporaries in the context of American race relations and argues for the importance of music in the fight for civil rights. Finally, Alger analyzes Johnson’s major recordings in terms of technique and style. Distribution of an accompanying music CD will be coordinated with the release of this book.
Download or read book The B B King Reader written by Richard Kostelanetz and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B.B. King is a national treasure. For more than five decades, he has been the consummate blues performer. His unique guitar playing, powerful vocals, and repertoire of songs have taken him from tiny Itta Bena, Mississippi, to worldwide renown. In this comprehensive volume, the best articles, interviews and reviews about B.B. King's life and career have been gathered. Learn how he first made his mark as a disc jockey in Memphis hawking "Pepticon" elixir and taking the moniker of the "Beale Street Blues Boy"; trace his early tours and recordings; see him be swept up in the blues revival; and finally, enjoy his fame as the greatest living exponent of the blues style.
Download or read book B B King Blues Guitar Collection written by B. B. King and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 36 early blues classics from his RPM recordings including: Boogie Woogie Woman * Every Day I Have the Blues * Everything I Do Is Wrong * Hard Working Woman * It's My Own Fault Darlin' * Please Hurry Home * Ruby Lee * She's a Mean Woman * Shut Your Mouth * A Whole Lot of Lovin' * Woke Up This Morning * and more.
Download or read book The B B King Treasures written by B.B. King and published by Bulfinch. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate portrait of living legend B.B. King celebrates the blues singer and guitarist with 75 color and black-and-white photos, facsimile reproductions of items from his personal archive, and--similar to the popular "The Sinatra Treasures"--an audio CD featuring unreleased music and interviews.
Download or read book B B King Live at the Regal Songbook written by B.B. King and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Recorded Versions). All 10 tracks from this critically acclaimed 1965 release by blues master B.B. King are featured in standard and notation and tab, including: Every Day I Have the Blues * Help the Poor * How Blue Can You Get * It's My Own Fault Darlin' * Please Love Me * Sweet Little Angel * Woke up This Morning * Worry, Worry * You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now * You Upset Me Baby.
Download or read book King B B Blues Guitar written by B. B. King and published by . This book was released on 1984-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B.B. King's own guitar solos, plus melody line, rhythm guitar, lyrics, chords and a special photo/biography section. Features songs such as: God Bless The Child * Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing * Frankie And Johnnie * more.
Download or read book B B King The B B King Collection written by B. B. King and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
