As his popularity grew he adopted the name Blues Boy King, which was eventually shortened to B.B. began his career in music by performing on Memphis radio. Here he stayed with his cousin Bukka White, already a successful musician, who would help school B.B. due to mechanization.) In his twenties, he hitchhiked to Memphis, Tennessee, the Mecca of all important musicians of the South.
When you take into account that this seemingly small sum was the equivalent of about $230 today, you can understand that he was definitely driven to play guitar in order to save up that kind of money at such a young age.ĭuring his early years he worked on farm near his home driving tractors and working as a sharecropper (a system of farming that came to an end during the 1940s in the U.S. bought his first guitar for fifteen dollars. King was born on Septemon a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi. In B.B.’s words, “When I sing, I play in my mind the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.” – from “ “ has mixed traditional blues, jazz, swing, mainstream pop and jump into a unique sound. His economy, his every-note-counts phrasing, has been a model for thousands of players, from Eric Clapton and George Harrison to Jeff Beck. He borrowed from Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker and others, integrating his precise and complex vocal-like string bends and his left hand vibrato, both of which have become indispensable components of rock guitarist’s vocabulary. has developed one of the world’s most identifiable guitar styles. at #3 on their “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” His most famous song, The Thrill Has Gone, has been featured in movies and on television its title, saying so much with only a few words, has been part of the public consciousness pretty much since the song’s release. This Mississippi native wore his crown with modesty, each year playing hundreds of shows and entertaining millions of fans with his trademark guitar sound.
There can only be one “King of the Blues” and for over six decades he went by the name of B.B.
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