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Free Guitar Ebook B.B. King Bio * Guitar Equipment
Known by many as the "King Of The Blues", B.B. King
is well known for his quality and tone percise string
bends and other guitar techniques that include his
famous "shake" vibrato guitar technique. Between 1951
and 1985, B.B. King performed an amazing 74 entries on
Billboard's R&B charts. his 1970 smash "The Thrill Is
Gone" became a major success tha led to appearances on
The Ed Sullivan Show and American Bandstand.
Much of Kings Mississippi Delta influences were based
upon country and gospel music styles along with blues
greats T-Bone Walker and Lonnie Johnson and jazz greats
Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. In 1946, B.B.
King left for Memphis to find his cousin, country blues
guitarist Bukka White. For ten months, White taught B.B.
the keys to playing blues guitar.
Upon his stay in Memphis, King was soon broadcasting his
music live via Memphis radio station WDIA.
1949 was a major breakthrough year for King. He cut his
first four tracks for Jim Bulleit's Bullet Records
(including a number entitled "Miss Martha King" after his
wife), then signed a contract with the Bihari Brothers'
Los Angeles-based RPM Records.It was during this era that
King first named his beloved guitar "Lucille." The story
told is that while he was playing a joint in a little
Arkansas town called Twist, a fight broke out between two
jealous men over a lady during the course of which they
knocked over a kerosene-filled garbage pail that was
heating the place, setting the room ablaze. In a panic to
escape the flames, King left his guitar inside. He then
ran back in to retrieve it, dodging the flames and nearly
losing his life. When the smoke had cleared, King discoved
that the lady who had inspired the fight to brake out was
named Lucille.
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