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King of the blues : the rise and reign of B.B. King
- Title
- King of the blues : the rise and reign of B.B. King / Daniel de Visé.
- Author
- De Visé, Daniel
- Publication
- New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- viii, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map; 24 cm
- Summary
- "King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in ninety countries over nearly sixty years)-in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including landmark gigs at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco and Chicago's Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always rose back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many ways record companies took advantage of artists, especially those of color."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-472) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Sharecropper -- On the run -- Indianola Mississippi seeds -- The blues -- Memphis -- The blues boy -- Lucille -- On the road -- Big red -- Fallow -- Regal -- Revival -- Fillmore -- Mythology -- Live and well -- Back in the alley -- Moscow on the Mississippi -- Homecoming -- Lovetown -- Riding with the king -- A golden chain -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-135
- ISBN
- 9780802158055
- 0802158056
- LCCN
- 2021036656
- OCLC
- 1261767849
- Author
- De Visé, Daniel, author.
- Title
- King of the blues : the rise and reign of B.B. King / Daniel de Visé.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-472) and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-135