King of the blues : the rise and reign of B.B. King / Daniel de Visé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Visé, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

King, B. B.

Blues musicians--United States--Biography.

Blues musicians.

United States.

Guitarists--United States--Biography.

Guitarists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2021.

Summary:

"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 ninety countries over nearly sixty years)-in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including landmark gigs at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco and 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Sharecropper

ch. 2 On the Run

ch. 3 Indianola Mississippi Seeds

ch. 4 The Blues

ch. 5 Memphis

ch. 6 The Blues Boy

ch. 7 Lucille

ch. 8 On the Road

ch. 9 Big Red

ch. 10 Fallow

ch. 11 Regal

ch. 12 Revival

ch. 13 Fillmore

ch. 14 Mythology

ch. 15 Live and Well

ch. 16 Back in the Alley

ch. 17 Moscow on the Mississippi

ch. 18 Homecoming

ch. 19 Lovetown

ch. 20 Riding with the King

ch. 21 A Golden Chain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-472) and index.

ISBN:

9780802158055

0802158056

OCLC:

1261767849