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One of the greats!

R.I.P. Brother BB!

DB's head is bowed.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/15/entertainment/bb-king-dead/

Interview where BB King talks about growing up in Mississippi as a sharecropper and becoming a musician.

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/15/406988156/b-b-king-on-life-plantation-living-and-his-droopy-drawers-sound

What a great interview!  I had a chance to see him a few years back and was unable to go.   I generally don't have regrets in life but that is still something I still look back on wishing I could have made it there.  Sad that he's gone from this earth, but what an enduring legacy he has left behind for all of us.

Good find, BikerDude!

Says the great Derek Trucks about BB King 'We're All His Kids'
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/derek-trucks-on-b-b-king-were-all-his-kids-20150515

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Guitarist Derek Trucks grew up listening to B.B. King. Here, he pays tribute to the late blues legend.

I woke up on the bus this morning and my wife, Susan [Tedeschi], was playing B.B. King records up front. I looked up and we were passing the Indianola, Mississippi exit, driving to Jackson, and it was kind of too much to take. I had to put sunglasses on and just sit there and take it in. It definitely hit home harder than expected. We got into our hotel and the lady behind the desk, said, "He stayed here twice a year." I feel like I'm kind of walking the trail today.

When B.B. King played, it was just the cold hard truth [laughs] ? like hearing Martin Luther King speak.
You just needed one word, one note with B.B. No one has that. No one lived the life he lived. None of the quote-unquote "torchbearers" have that history, that spirit. There's a bunch of people out here that are going to carry on the memory of it, but he did it. My good friend Col. Bruce Hampton said, "B.B. ain't coming back. He got it right this time." A lot of people might have to keep coming back to work it out, but B.B. did it. He ain't coming back. He did what he was supposed to do. He left an amazing legacy and a bunch of disciples.