King of the Blues av Daniel de Vise

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<p><b>''Without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced'' Eric Clapton</b><br><b>''No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues''</b><b>President Barack Obama</b><br><b>''</b><b>One part of me says, "Yes, of course I can play." But the other part of me says, "Well, I wish I could just do it like B.B. King."''</b><b>John Lennon</b><br><br>Riley ''Blues Boy'' King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in 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, 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.<br><br><i>King