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Blues all around me ; the autobiography of B.B. King

Title
  1. Blues all around me ; the autobiography of B.B. King / B.B. King with David Ritz.
Published by
  1. New York : Avon Books, 1996.
Author
  1. King, B. B.

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Additional authors
  1. Ritz, David.
Description
  1. xii, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  1. Riley B. King grew up amidst the cotton farms of Mississippi, picking in the fields. At age 21 he wrecked a tractor and took it as a sign that a brighter future awaited him as a musician in Memphis. The rest is history.
  2. Recounting his days as a disk jockey and pioneering bluesman on the rhythm and blues circuit, B. B. dramatizes his whirlwind adventures, from the Memphis of the forties to the Moscow of the nineties, in a voice that is both raw and real. A deeply sensuous and sensitive soul, he discloses his complex relationship to women and sexuality, and chronicles his first-hand experience with racism, the Civil Rights movement, and the shifting politics of show business.
Subject
  1. Blues musicians > United States > Biography
  2. King, B. B
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Discography: p. 315-317.