The magic was in the note and blurred, as only he could do. Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana in The Life of Riley , confessed that identified the first. Yesterday, after being known BB King’s death, it was Lenny Kravitz who, on Twitter, summed it up: “Many touch thousands of notes and say what you Could you with one.” After 89 years, there are more than twenty with diabetes after being hospitalized last April, BB King fired up yesterday. Obama, who in 2012 received the White House also did not fail to express his condolences. “The blues have lost their king, America lost a legend.”
I had just turned 20 when he left the tractor and the cotton field where he worked to head to Memphis , alone and with little more than the guitar. Awaits, a maternal cousin, Booker White, and the corners of the city where the blues already yielded some coins. Soon would come the opportunity to take the stage. Sonny Boy Williamson, bluesman and broadcaster on local radio of black music, gave him one of the concerts he had scheduled, an opportunity that King did not waste. “My job was to entertain the ladies who came to the front of the stage while the men went to the back of the bar to play. It was a great job that I did not want to lose,” he told Sounding Out, a documentary that the BBC gave him. And not lost. For $ 12 a night, he won his space on stage, a program on the radio and in 1956 the right to record the first album, Singin ‘the Blues .
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