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Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Riley King, ever to be known as B.B. (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 bluesman Bukka White, B.B....
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