Posted on 10/07/2012 6:52:56 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The fat red sun settles itself against the horizon, throwing a last, honey-sweet light through humid evening and over a small crowd on the lawn beside a railroad track that cuts through the cotton fields beyond. A quarter-moon rises and a chorus of cicadas serenades imminent twilight, now conjoined by the sound of the band; the drummer catches the backbeat and the compere announces: "How about an Indianola hometown welcome for the one-and-only King of the Blues: BB KING!"
And on he comes, to applause from people who know him well and claim him as their own – the last of the blues masters a few weeks short of his 87th birthday. "Nice evening, isn't it?" he says, and introduces his nephew on sax. Some of his 15 children (all by different mothers) and innumerable grandchildren are in the audience, though one of his daughters died recently of diabetes, as had BB's mother – a poignant riptide beneath the occasion. "I guess you can look at me," he says from the stage, "and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King."
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you don’t hafta be black to be a great bluesman
Hank Jr. is a great bluesman
Buddy can actually play, not just hit a few licks.
“Gentlemen. Gentlemen. I don’t do chords.”
saw him a few years back, house of blues in chicago- OUTSTANDING!
John Mayall is pretty good for a white guy...
Saw him twice in the late 60s, when he opened for Janis Joplin. Loved him ever since.
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