Blues All Around Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blues All Around Me write by B. B. King. This book was released on 2011-03-08. Blues All Around Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. B. B. King has the blues running through his blood. Growing up in the rural poverty of the Mississippi Delta, King first experienced the blues at nine years old, when his mother passed away. The man of the house before the end of his first decade, he used this strife as a source of inspiration and launched one of the most celebrated musical careers in American history. King has led a remarkable life, and this riveting autobiography dramatizes his whirlwind adventures from the Memphis of the forties to the Moscow of the nineties with unflinching candor and sincerity. But most of all, B.B.'s story is the story of the blues—the evolution from country acoustic to urban electric, the birth and explosion of rock 'n' roll—and B.B.'s own long, but ultimately triumphant, struggle for crossover success, during which he remained unwaveringly true to the music of his heart.
Blues All Around Me
Blues All Around Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blues All Around Me write by B. B. King. This book was released on 1996. Blues All Around Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the rural poverty of the Mississippi Delta to his celebrated position as the world's leading blues artist, B.B. King has led a remarkable life. In this riveting autobiography--co-written by the co-author of critically acclaimed biographies of Marvin Gaye, Etta James, and Ray Charles--the fabled blues pioneer tells his unforgettable story: a soulful account of a brilliant guitar/singer narrating the growth of the blues and the explosion of rock and roll. of photos.
King of the Blues
King of the Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook King of the Blues write by Daniel de Vise. This book was released on 2021-10-05. King of the Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first full and authoritative biography of an American—indeed a world-wide—musical and cultural legend “No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues.”—President Barack Obama “He is without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced.”—Eric Clapton Riley “Blues Boy” King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow 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, encouraged by his cousin, the established blues man Bukka White, 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. King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in 90 countries over nearly 60 years)—in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including his landmark gig at Chicago’s Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always rose back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many ways record companies took advantage of artists, especially those of color. Daniel de Visé has interviewed almost every surviving member of B.B. King’s inner circle—family, band members, retainers, managers, and more—and their voices and memories enrich and enliven the life of this Mississippi blues titan, whom his contemporary Bobby “Blue” Bland simply called “the man.”
When I Left Home
When I Left Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When I Left Home write by Buddy Guy. This book was released on 2012-05-08. When I Left Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues. Guy's epic story stands at the absolute nexus of modern blues. He came to Chicago from rural Louisiana in the fifties—the very moment when urban blues were electrifying our culture. He was a regular session player at Chess Records. Willie Dixon was his mentor. He was a sideman in the bands of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. He and Junior Wells formed a band of their own. In the sixties, he became a recording star in his own right. When I Left Home tells Guy's picaresque story in his own unique voice, that of a storyteller who remembers everything, including blues masters in their prime and the exploding, evolving culture of music that happened all around him.
Can't Be Satisfied
Can't Be Satisfied - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Can't Be Satisfied write by Robert Gordon. This book was released on 2024-09-24. Can't Be Satisfied available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Muddy Waters invented electric blues and created the template for the rock and roll band and its wild lifestyle. Gordon excavates Muddy's mysterious past and early career, taking us from Mississippi fields to postwar Chicago street corners.
