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Archie Fair, who “filled the room with the low thunder of his voice and the sweet twang of his guitar.” The young King said about the preacher: “His sermon is like music, and his music - both the song from his mouth and the sound of his guitar - thrills me until I wanna get up and dance.” Fair carried his guitar with him when he visited King’s Aunt Lucille’s house one Sunday after church King picked it up and cradled it, and Fair invited the young boy to try it out. This audience, surely, could relate to the blues.”Īs a child, Riley King idolized the pastor of his Church of God in Christ, the Rev. felt that he and Lucille spoke with the same voice, one picking up where the other left off … two minutes later, the song was over, and the yard erupted to applause and cheers.
flailed his left wrist up and down to create the shimmering vibrato that was his trademark. Writing about that afternoon, de Visé says: “B.B. 10, 1970, King played the Cook County Jail, and he “rejoiced at performing for Black people again,” de Visé writes. As de Visé points out, even though King became a world-famous musician, he never shed the shadows of poverty, and he always made it a priority to reach out to Black audiences, even though white listeners embraced his music in a way they did not when it came to his peers like Blind Lemon Jefferson or T-Bone Walker. In King of the Blues, the first full-length biography of King, journalist de Visé draws on interviews with surviving members of King’s inner circle, including family, friends, and band members, to offer an almost year-by-year account of the ups and downs of King’s rise from poverty in Mississippi to the heights of international stardom. Along the way, he traces how King developed a style that influenced generations of guitarists. King died in May 2015, author Daniel de Visé hopes to help us recall how King ascended to the throne of the blues world in his new biography, King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. Even though the thrill of hearing the king of the blues live has been gone since B.B.