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The’King’ Of The Blues

BB King

SKU: CATLP107

Barcode: 5060397601070

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Raised in Mississippi, where he was born in 1925, Riley B. King went on to become one of the blues’ most influential guitarists, blazing a trail with his distinctive semiacoustic Gibson guitar known as Lucille. An inability to sing and play at the same time saw him adopt a call and response routine with his guitar, echoing both gospel preaching and the chants from the cotton fields. Another ‘limitation’, a lack of facility at slide playing, led to him developing a mix of vibrato and sustain which, combined with bending notes on a single string, resulted in a distinctive sound. The Beale Street Blues Boy’s story hasn’t ended yet: as the man himself says, ‘As long as people have problems, the blues can never die.’

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Track Listings

SIDE A
Three O'Clock Blues
Please Accept My Love
Blind Love
You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
Highway Bound
Mistreated Woman
Sweet Sixteen (Part 2)

SIDE B
You've Been An Angel
Can't We Talk It Over
Please Hurry Home
Don't You Want A Man Like Me
My Own Fault, Darlin'
Please Remember Me
Things Are Not The Same

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