Bibliograph

Blues all around me, the autobiography of B.B. King, B.B. King with David Ritz

Type

Label

Blues all around me, the autobiography of B.B. King, B.B. King with David Ritz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes discography (pages 315-317) and index

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autobiography

Illustrations

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blues all around me

Nature of contents

discographies

Responsibility statement

B.B. King with David Ritz

Sub title

the autobiography of B.B. King

Summary

Riley B. King grew up amidst the cotton farms of Mississippi, picking in the fields. At age 21 he wrecked a tractor and took it as a sign that a brighter future awaited him as a musician in Memphis. The rest is history. Recounting his days as a disk jockey and pioneering bluesman on the rhythm and blues circuit, B.B. dramatizes his whirlwind adventures, from the Memphis of the forties to the Moscow of the nineties, in a voice that is both raw and real. A deeply sensuous and sensitive soul, he discloses his complex relationship to women and sexuality, and chronicles his first-hand experience with racism, the Civil Rights movement, and the shifting politics of show business

resource.variantTitle

Autobiography of B.B. King

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