Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B. B. King

1 Anmeldelser

4

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Fakta

'Without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced' Eric Clapton 'No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues'President Barack Obama 'One part of me says, "Yes, of course I can play." But the other part of me says, "Well, I wish I could just do it like B.B. King."'John Lennon

Riley 'Blues Boy' King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister's guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker, B.B. taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style that, along with his relentless work ethic and humanity, became his trademark. In turn, generations of artists claimed him as inspiration, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to Carlos Santana and the Edge.

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 (more than fifteen thousand concerts in ninety countries over nearly sixty years) - in some real way his means of escaping his past. 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 colour.

Daniel de Visé has interviewed almost every surviving member of B.B. King's inner circle - family, band members, retainers, managers and more - and their voices and memories enrich and enliven the life of this Mississippi blues titan, whom his contemporary Bobby 'Blue' Bland simply called 'the man.'

© 2021 Grove Press UK (E-bog): 9781611858808

Release date

E-bog: 14. oktober 2021

Tags

    Andre kan også lide...

    1. Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues David Dann
    2. Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 Daniel Wolff
    3. Blues from Laurel Canyon: My Life as a Bluesman John Mayall
    4. King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King Daniel De Visé
    5. When I Left Home: My Story Buddy Guy
    6. What Time Are We On? An Oral History of the London Jazz scene from the early 1940's to 1965 told by the Musicians who were there. Matt Haskins
    7. Memphis Mayhem: A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World David A. Less
    8. Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath – and Beyond Geezer Butler
    9. Art Rebels: Race, Class, and Gender in the Art of Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese Paul Lopes
    10. Australia Rocks: Remembering the music of the 1950s to 1990s Lucy Desoto
    11. Rock and Roll Stories Lynn Goldsmith
    12. Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC’s Back In Black, Updated Edition of the Definitive Biography Jesse Fink
    13. Andy Wood. To live, die and shine in pre-grunge Seattle Valeria Sgarella
    14. The Meaning of Metallica: Ride the Lyrics William Irwin
    15. Glamour: 30 Years of Women Who Have Reshaped the World Glamour Magazine
    16. Working for the Man, Playing in the Band Damon Wood
    17. Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work Timothy Hampton
    18. Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music Aaron Cohen
    19. The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop Clover Hope
    20. Hallucinations from Hell: Confessions of an Angry Samoan Gregg H. Turner
    21. Awop Bop Aloo Mop: Little Richard: A Life of Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll...and Religion Tina Andrews
    22. Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces Scott Burnham
    23. Death By Metal: The History of Chuck Schuldiner Rino Gissi
    24. Hearing and Knowing Music: The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone Edward T. Cone
    25. Music Lessons Bob Wiseman
    26. For The Record: The Best In The Music Business Tell It Like It Is Samantha Marshall
    27. Freak Out!: My Life with Frank Zappa Pauline Butcher
    28. Songversations Eric Hutchinson
    29. The Greatest Music Quiz Book - 1,000 questions covering ten genres of music Kevin Snelgrove
    30. Reverberation: Do Everything Better with Music Keith Blanchard
    31. A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties Suze Rotolo
    32. Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue Richard Taruskin
    33. Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music Greg Renoff
    34. Gilbert And Sullivan: A Biography Hesketh Pearson
    35. Jimmy Page in Brazil Leandro Souto Maior
    36. Walter Wanderley: The "Bossa Nova" Forgotten Fernando Torres
    37. Bartók and His World Peter Laki
    38. Dylan at 80 - It used to go like that, and now it goes like this Gary Browning
    39. Discobiografia Mutante - Albums that revolutionized Brazilian music Chris Fuscaldo
    40. Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part II Elliot Forbes
    41. Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music Michael P. Steinberg
    42. Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part I Elliot Forbes
    43. Lessons From the Music Room: A How-To Guide for the Beginning Music Teacher Cheryl Baker
    44. Leonardo Da Vinci - Artist, Thinker, and Man of Science Eugène Müntz
    45. The Sense of Music Victor Zuckerkandl
    46. Recording Icons / Creative Spaces: The Creative World of Mark Howard Mark Howard
    47. Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians Kenneth Levy
    48. The Sense of Music: Semiotic Essays Raymond Monelle

    Vælg dit abonnement

    • Over 600.000 titler

    • Download og nyd titler offline

    • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

    • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

    • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

    Flex

    For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

    89 kr. /måned
    • 1 konto

    • 20 timer/måned

    • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

    • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

    • Fri lytning til podcasts

    • Ingen binding

    Prøv gratis
    Den mest populære

    Premium

    For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

    129 kr. /måned
    • 1 konto

    • 100 timer/måned

    • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

    • Fri lytning til podcasts

    • Ingen binding

    Start tilbuddet

    Unlimited

    For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

    149 kr. /måned
    • 1 konto

    • Ubegrænset adgang

    • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

    • Fri lytning til podcasts

    • Ingen binding

    Start tilbuddet

    Family

    For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

    Fra 179 kr. /måned
    • 2-6 konti

    • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

    • Fri lytning til podcasts

    • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

    • Ingen binding

    2 konti

    179 kr. /måned
    Prøv gratis