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Post by Chesapeake on May 15, 2015 10:36:04 GMT -5
I was privileged to serve as editor on the creative team that developed the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, which opened in Indianola MS in 2008. In addition to editing the wall text, I got to write several panels, including the big introductory one at the entrance, and thus had the pleasure on opening day of hearing B.B. read my words about him in front of TV cameras.
The NYT obit today mentions that B.B. went through a fallow period around the early to mid-1960s, when rock 'n' roll was blowing away just about everything that didn't have a backbeat. That included blues, which was being dropped by young African-Americans especially as a reminder of the bad old days of Jim Crow, and even slavery. The obit didn't mention the irony that in an earlier era, beginning around the first decade of the 20th century, the same thing happened to black string-band music, especially the banjo. The new kid on the block that was sweeping everything else away was ... blues. We seem to be coming full circle now with the rediscovery of black old-time by a new generation, thanks to the Carolina Chocolate Drops.
B.B. was rediscovered at the Fillmore concert in 1968, and never suffered neglect again. Today he belongs to the immortals of American music, a seminal figure in a seminal genre. The thrill lives on. www.bbkingmuseum.org/
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2015 17:55:38 GMT -5
1964's BB King Live at The Regal album has always been in the top few of my favourite live albums ever and I expect it always will be. It's absolutely phenomenal. RIP.
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Post by Chesapeake on May 15, 2015 18:09:26 GMT -5
That is a fine album and was my introduction to his music.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on May 15, 2015 19:34:33 GMT -5
Daisy was the BB king. For pellets, it was Crossman. (Sorry. RIP B.B. King)
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Post by Tamarack on May 15, 2015 21:58:58 GMT -5
RIP BB
Many hours of listening to BB King in my dorm room made me listen more closely to the rock & roll I grew up with and listen more closely to music in general.
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Post by Marshall on May 15, 2015 22:51:19 GMT -5
Marshall is a tough audience. RIP, BB, you were one of a kind. Here's something a little more in tune with Marshall's mood today: Sorry boys. I love/loved BB's voice crooning those soulful ballads. Really, really, really, I do. Honest injun ! To me, it was his voice that sold the songs. . . . , That and his facial expressions. You always KNEW when he was feelin' it. He made you feel it too. A true legend.
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Post by Marshall on May 15, 2015 23:00:29 GMT -5
This about sums it all up: Oh YEAH! He wsa firing on all cylinders there. Damn that's good. Like I said those facial expressions communicate volumes. You could be deaf and you'd be crying and laughing at that performance. WOO !I gotta mp3 that one. You know I think I like live performance much better than recording these days. There's something communicative in performance you just don't get in a sterile studio environment. Amen. That's perfect. Thanks Lonnie.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2015 6:51:24 GMT -5
The thrill might be gone, but the vibrato goes on... and on.
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