“King of the Blues”
Born on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi in 1925, Riley B. King would start from very humble beginnings. His family moved around the area, and the young Riley experienced early a life of constant motion. As a youngster he was a farm laborer, but drawn to music, he took up the guitar; he played on street corners, and would sometimes play in as many as four towns a night. In 1946, he hitchhiked to Memphis, to pursue his music career. Memphis was a large musical community where every style of music could be found, a good place for a young man who wanted to play the blues. Riley stayed with his cousin Bukka White, a celebrated bluesman in his own right, who was able to show him first hand the guitar foundations of the blues.
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North Sea Jazz Festival 2009
Track list: 1. Introduction 2. Theme Song 3. Key to the Highway 4. Geen Idee 5. Everyday I Have the Blues 6. Travellin' Man 7. Please See That my Grave Kept Clean
B.B. King - vocals, guitar James Bolden - trumpet Stanley Abernathy - trumpet Melvin Jackson - saxophone Walter King - saxophone Charlie Dennis - guitar Ernest Vantrease - piano, keyboards Reggie Richards - bass Tony Coleman - drums, percussion
Live at Ahoy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2009-07-10
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