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

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“A treasure trove of information…told with real feeling.” —Washington Post Book World

“Charming…honest…transcendent…. It reads like a warm and lengthy conversation with a close friend.” —Billboard

The undisputed king of the blues, B.B. King puts his life into words in a story that spans tragedy, triumph, and the whole lot in between—and he tells it just how he plays it, straight from the heart. A true-to-life tale of overcoming monumental odds to succeed as an artist in an regularly unfriendly world, Blues All Around Me may be the story of how blues music changed all the way through its migration from the Mississippi Delta to urban areas such as Chicago. Rolling Stone calls B.B.’s memoir a “very American success story [told] with the lyricism and leisurely pace of a born storyteller.”

His real name is Riley B. King, but the B.B. stands, as any aficionado knows, for Blues Boy, a nickname he used to be given in the late 1940s when he used to be a disk jockey in Memphis, Tenn. Of course, he is best referred to as the King of the Blues to millions of fans right through the world. At 70, B.B. King is still making a song the blues and this is his story, from his childhood growing up in the Mississippi Delta, to the purchase of his first guitar at age 12, from his first real break after his appearance on Sonny Boy Williamson’s King Biscuit Time radio show, to his ascent to international acclaim as The united states’s ambassador of the blues.

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