King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King Book Mod David Snell (2) - Gwlad

David Snell (2) - Gwlad Y Gan

Mike Carubia - Love Song 1:54

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Recorded At British Grove

Living On A Feeling 4:20

King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King Book Mod David Snell (2) - GwladRiley "Blues Boy" King (1925 2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow 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 and encouraged by his cousin, the established blues man Bukka White, B. B. taught his guitar