The B.B. King Companion
Five Decades of Commentary
by Richard Kostelanetz
This softcover is a former library book, discarded, and is in very good condition with minimal shelf wear. It has the typical library markings and labels. It is protected by a clear plastic cover.
ISBN 0028646193, copyright 1997
From the back cover:
B. B. King is a national treasure. For more than four decades, he has been the consummate blues performer. His unique guitar playing, powerful vocals, and repertoire of songs has taken him from tiny Itta Bena, Mississippi, to worldwide renown. Now, for the first time, the best articles, interviews, and reviews about B.B. King's life and career have been gathered in one volume. Learn how he first made his mark as a deejay in Memphis hawking "Pepticon" elixir and taking the moniker of the "Beale Street Blues Boy"; trace his early tours and recordings; see him be swept up in the blues revival; and, finally, enjoy his fame as the greatest living exponent of the blues style.
Publisher's Note
B.B. King, a name synonymous with "blues," has been the most fortunate and unusual of bluesmen: a success on his own terms, and in his own time. An inside look at the guitar playing, blues singing, Grammy Award-winning King of the Blues.
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