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The Beale Streeters were a Memphis-based R&B coalition of musicians, which at times included John Alexander, Bobby Bland, Junior Parker, B.B. King, Earl Forest, Willie Nix, and Rosco Gordon. Initially, they were not a formal band, but they played at the same venues and backed each other during recording sessions.
Onzie O. Horne (5 September 1923 – 9 February 1973) was an American arranger, businessman, conductor, disc jockey, and musician. [1] [2] He worked with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Sammy Davis Jr, Rufus Thomas and BB King and was the first African American to conduct the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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.
To Know You Is to Love You is an electric blues album by B. B. King, released in 1973. Produced by Dave Crawford in Philadelphia, it includes the participation of Stevie Wonder, the Memphis Horns, and members of MFSB, the house band for Philadelphia International Records in the early and mid-1970s.
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.
On 26 October 2008, Bono and the Edge rejoined B.B. King to play the song for the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Founders Award. [6] After King died on 14 May 2015, U2 paid tribute to him during a show in Vancouver the following night during the Innocence + Experience Tour by playing "When Love Comes to Town" for the first time in 23 years. [7]
Blues Summit is the thirty-third studio album by B.B. King released in 1993 through the MCA label. [1] The album reached peak positions of number 182 on the Billboard 200, and number 64 on Billboard 's R&B Albums chart. [3]
"Sweet Little Angel" (Riley King, Jules Taub) "Never Make a Move Too Soon" (Stix Hooper, Will Jennings) "Into the Night" (Ira Newborn) "Ain't Nobody's Bizness" (Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins) "The Thrill is Gone" (Rick Darnell, Roy Hawkins) "Peace to the World" (Trade Martin) "Nobody Loves Me But My Mother" (Riley King)