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Blues all around me ; the autobiography of B.B. King
- Title
- Blues all around me ; the autobiography of B.B. King / B.B. King with David Ritz.
- Author
- King, B. B.
- Publication
- New York : Avon Books, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | ML420.K473 A3 1996 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Ritz, David.
- Description
- xii, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- 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.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Discography: p. 315-317.
- ISBN
- 0380973189 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 96027773
- OCLC
- ocm34885936
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries