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Christianity Today goes on to describe King as "a deeply spiritual man ... a practicing Christian and was first inspired to pick up the guitar as a young boy by the pastor at his home church, Rev Archie Fair." The magazine says Fair taught King his first few chords, and King began singing gospel music at Elkhorn Baptist Church.
King played the old blues and jazz clubs in Kansas City -- the real "birthplace of the blues" -- in the 30s and 40s, and continued to return to the old Count Basie Club, the Blue Room, and the Juke House well into the 80s and 90s. He played to a sold-out, spilling-into-the-streets, hanging-from-the-awnings-and-rooftops crowd at the old Cowtown Ballroom -- now the Uptown Theater -- in 1972 that is perhaps the most memorable blues concert in history.
I love blues and jazz, the old stuff, the likes of Basie, King, John Lee and Muddy. That's music! RIP, B.B. King. Got to get ready for your concert in heaven tonight.
Blues legend B.B. King dead at 89
Blues legend BB King has died aged 89, his lawyer has confirmed.
Known as the 'King of the Blues', the former farmhand passed away in his sleep in Las Vegas after suffering from ill health in recent months.
Born on a plantation to sharecropper parents, King outlived all his fellow post-World War Two blues greats – Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker – to see the rough music born in the cotton fields of the segregated South reach a new audience. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time ranked King at number three, behind only Hendrix and Duane Allman.
Blues legend BB King has died aged 89, his lawyer has confirmed.
Known as the 'King of the Blues', the former farmhand passed away in his sleep in Las Vegas after suffering from ill health in recent months.
Born on a plantation to sharecropper parents, King outlived all his fellow post-World War Two blues greats – Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker – to see the rough music born in the cotton fields of the segregated South reach a new audience. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time ranked King at number three, behind only Hendrix and Duane Allman.
King played the old blues and jazz clubs in Kansas City -- the real "birthplace of the blues" -- in the 30s and 40s, and continued to return to the old Count Basie Club, the Blue Room, and the Juke House well into the 80s and 90s. He played to a sold-out, spilling-into-the-streets, hanging-from-the-awnings-and-rooftops crowd at the old Cowtown Ballroom -- now the Uptown Theater -- in 1972 that is perhaps the most memorable blues concert in history.
I love blues and jazz, the old stuff, the likes of Basie, King, John Lee and Muddy. That's music! RIP, B.B. King. Got to get ready for your concert in heaven tonight.