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B.B. King (2002)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock’s Backpages Audio, October 2002
The Chairman of the Board of Blues Singers looks back at his early days in Memphis, and on the observational nature of his songs, and their universal subject matter.
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Tempo: B.B. King
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, November 1967
B.B. King has been getting some attention lately; still not enough for a great master, but it’s attention anyway. Charles Keil did a chapter on …

Tempo: B.B. King (part 2)
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, December 1967
ANYTHING YOU want to sell nowadays, all you’ve got to do is advertise. I think people are just beginning to advertise blues. Aretha Franklin, for …

B.B. King, Fleetwood Mac, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Duster Bennett: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, May 1969
B.B. KING SPELLS OUT THE BLUES …

Newport Jazz Festival 1969: New Records & Not All That Jazz
Live Review by Ian Dove, Billboard, July 1969
NEWPORT, R.I. — On paper at least the experiment of adding rock music to the Newport Jazz Festival 1969 came from the purest of motives. …

Payin’ Some Dues — Blues at Ann Arbor
Live Review by Miller Francis jr., Great Speckled Bird, The, August 1969
“I’d like for them to hear the real things. I don’t think yet that most of the white people like my music because it’s blues. I …

B.B. King: Background To A Living Legend
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, June 1971
B.B. KING is the undisputed King of the Blues – fact! Every press release in existence on B.B. will tell you that he is a …

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