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King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B. B. King
By De Visé, Daniel
- ISBN
- 9780802158055
- Publisher
- Grove
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Starred Review on August 1, 2021 | Arts & Humanities
Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist de Visé (Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show) has written the definitive biography of blues master Riley "B. B." King (1925–2015). Drawing material from King's autobiography, Blues All Around Me; Charles Sawyer's The Arrival of B. B. King: The Authorized Biography; and dozens of interviews, he begins with his subject's impoverished childhood in Mississippi and his backbreaking work as ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
