Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King - Softcover

King, B. B.; Ritz, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380807602 ISBN 13: 9780380807604

Publisher: It Books, 1999

Synopsis

America's greatest living bluesman shares a candid look at his life and his music, disclosing details of his life as a poor boy in the Mississippi Delta, his various relationships, his struggles with racism, and the evolution of his sound, from rural acoustic to urban electric blues. Reprint.

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From the rural poverty of the Mississippi Delta to his celebrated position as the world's leading blues musician, B. B. King has led a remarkable life. In this riveting autobiography, he dramatizes his whirlwind adventures from the Memphis of the forties to the Moscow of the nineties with unflinching candor and sincerity--disclosing his complex relationships with women and chronicling his experience with racism, the Civil Rights movement, and the shifting politics of show business. But most of all, B. B. 's story is the story of the blues--the evolution from country acoustic to urban electric; the birth and explosion of rock 'n' roll--and B. B.' s own long but ultimately triumphant struggle for crossover success, during which he remained unwaveringly true to the music of his heart.From the rural poverty of the Mississippi Delta to his celebrated position as the world's leading blues musician, B. B. King has led a remarkable life. In this riveting autobiography, he dramatizes his whirlwind adventures from the Memphis of the forties to the Moscow of the nineties with unflinching candor and sincerity--disclosing his complex relationships with women and chronicling his experience with racism, the Civil Rights movement, and the shifting politics of show business. But most of all, B. B. 's story is the story of the blues--the evolution from country acoustic to urban electric; the birth and explosion of rock 'n' roll--and B. B.' s own long but ultimately triumphant struggle for crossover success, during which he remained unwaveringly true to the music of his heart.

Edition details

• Publisher: It Books
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0380807602
• ISBN 13: 9780380807604
• Binding: Paperback