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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.
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.
