King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King by Daniel de Visé

King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King

Daniel de Visé

496 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography history music informative reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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