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Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending , shimmering vibrato , and staccato picking that influenced many later electric guitar blues players.
At the funeral of B.B. King in 2015, while Jon Brewer was filming, a number of previous band members of King expressed their frustration that B.B. King's life on the road had not been featured in B.B. King: The Life of Riley. Upon further introspection, Brewer realized that there had been such a great deal of B.B. King's life of 55 years on the ...
King died of a heart attack on December 21, 1992, in his Memphis home. [15] His final concert had been in Los Angeles two days earlier. He was given a funeral procession with the Memphis Horns playing "When the Saints Go Marching In" and was buried in Paradise Gardens Cemetery in Edmondson, Arkansas, near his childhood home. [29]
Bobby Bland, B. B. King – vocals; B. B. King, Milton Hopkins, Johnny Jones, Ray Parker – guitar; Rudy Aikels, Louis Villery – bass guitar; John "Jabo" Starks, Harold Potier – drums; James Toney – organ; Robert Anderson – piano; Red Holloway – tenor saxophone; Jerome Richardson – baritone saxophone
Live in Cook County Jail is a 1971 live album by American blues musician B.B. King, recorded on September 10, 1970, in Cook County Jail in Chicago.Agreeing to a request by jail warden Winston Moore, King and his band performed for an audience of 2,117 prisoners, most of whom were young black men.
A Gibson Lucille model semi-acoustic guitar, unique for having no f-holes. Lucille is the name American blues musician B. B. King (1925–2015) gave to his guitars. They were usually black Gibson guitars similar to the ES-330 or ES-355, and Gibson introduced a B.B. King custom model in 1980, based upon the latter.
B. B. King (1925–2015) was an American blues musician whose recording career spanned 1949–2008. As with other blues contemporaries, King's material was primarily released on singles until the late 1950s–early 1960s, when long playing record albums became more popular.
Live at the Regal is a 1965 live album by American blues guitarist and singer B.B. King.It was recorded on November 21, 1964, at the Regal Theater in Chicago.The album is widely heralded as one of the greatest blues albums ever recorded and was ranked at number 141 in Rolling Stone ' s 2003 edition of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, [6] before dropping to number 299 in a 2020 ...