stayed with his cousin Bukka White, one of the most celebrated blues performers of his time, who schooled B.B. Memphis was where every important musician of the South gravitated, and which supported a large musical community where every style of African American music could be found. In 1947, he hitchhiked to Memphis, TN, to pursue his music career. In his youth, he played on street corners for dimes, and would sometimes play in as many as four towns a night.

He was born September 16, 1925, on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, near Indianola. Since he started recording in the 1940s, he has released over fifty albums, many of them classics. King – has defined the blues for a worldwide audience. King is as alive as the music he plays, and a grateful world can’t get enough of him.įor more than half a century, Riley B. commercials, or laying down tracks for his next album. Don’t look for him in some kind of semi-retirement look for him out on the road, playing for people, popping up in a myriad of T.V.

Time has no apparent effect on B.B., other than to make him more popular, more cherished, more relevant than ever. He is still light on his feet, singing and playing the blues with relentless passion. His reign as King of the Blues has been as long as that of any monarch on earth. King with Ayron Jones and The Way at the Moore Theatre on Monday, March 3, 2014.

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