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BOOK/MAGAZINE: The B.B. King Treasures: Photos, Mementos and Music from B. B. King's Collection

In 1947, with a two-and-a-half dollars in his pocket and his guitar on his back, Riley B. King, a sharecropper moonlighting as a blues and gospel musician, hitchhiked to Memphis from his home in Indianola, Mississippi. Today, after touring the world as an ambassador of the blues for more than half a century, B. B. King is a living legend...

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18:21 on May 28 2010

BOOK/MAGAZINE: Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures

All About Jazz — Like a celebration thrown by B.B. for his countless fans, published for the occasion of his 80th birthday, The B. B. King Treasures brings remembrances, photos, and rare ... more info

B.B. King

18:05 on May 28 2010

BOOK/MAGAZINE: The B.B. King Treasures: Photos, Mementos and Music from B. B. King's Collection

All About Jazz — In 1947, with a two-and-a-half dollars in his pocket and his guitar on his back, Riley B. King, a sharecropper moonlighting as a blues and gospel musician, hitchhiked to ... more info

B.B. King