Īccording to King and Joe Bihari, Ike Turner introduced King to the Bihari brothers while he was a talent scout at Modern Records. He performed with Bobby Bland, Johnny Ace and Earl Forest in a group known as the Beale Streeters. "Beale Street was where it all started for me," King said. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, King was a part of the blues scene on Beale Street. King playing his favorite guitar, Lucille, in the 1980s 'Had' to have one, short of stealing!" Career 1949–2005 King said, "Once I'd heard him for the first time, I knew I'd have to have myself. It was there that he first met T-Bone Walker. He worked at WDIA as a singer and disc jockey, where he was given the nickname " Beale Street Blues Boy", later shortened to "Blues Boy", and finally to B.B. The radio spot became so popular that it was expanded and became the Sepia Swing Club. King's appearances led to steady engagements at the Sixteenth Avenue Grill in West Memphis, and later to a ten-minute spot on the Memphis radio station WDIA. He performed on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program on KWEM in West Memphis, where he began to develop an audience. However, King returned to Mississippi shortly afterward, where he decided to prepare himself better for the next visit, and returned to West Memphis, Arkansas, two years later in 1948. White took him in for the next ten months. In 1946, King followed Bukka White to Memphis, Tennessee. King holding his guitar and Evelyn Young playing saxophone King and Bill Harvey and Orchestra with photo of B.B. John's Gospel Singers of Inverness, Mississippi, performing at area churches and on WGRM in Greenwood, Mississippi.
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In 1943, King left Kilmichael to work as a tractor driver and play guitar with the Famous St. A self-taught guitarist, he then wanted to become a radio musician. King listened to it while on break at a plantation. It was a radio show featuring the Mississippi Delta blues. In November 1941, " King Biscuit Time" first aired, broadcasting on KFFA in Helena, Arkansas. Another source indicates he was given his first guitar by Bukka White, his mother's first cousin (King's grandmother and White's mother were sisters). Cartledge withheld money from King's salary for the next two months until the debt was repaid. Flake Cartledge, his employer in Kilmichael, for 15 dollars. King's first guitar was bought for him by Mr. The local minister performed with a Sears Roebuck Silvertone guitar during services, and taught King his first three chords. King was attracted to the Pentecostal Church of God in Christ because of its music. While young, King sang in the gospel choir at Elkhorn Baptist Church in Kilmichael. When King was four years old, his mother left his father for another man, so he was raised by his maternal grandmother, Elnora Farr, in Kilmichael, Mississippi. He considered the nearby city of Indianola, Mississippi to be his home. King was born on September 16, 1925, on the Berclair cotton plantation near the town of Itta Bena, Mississippi, the son of sharecroppers Albert and Nora Ella King. 2.2 2006–2014: Farewell tour and later activities.interview date August 3, 2005, NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Oral History Library King reflects on his greatest musical influences. King died at the age of 89 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 14, 2015. He later lived in Memphis, Tennessee and Chicago, and as his fame grew, toured the world extensively. He was attracted to music and the guitar in church, and began his career in juke joints and local radio. King was born on a cotton plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, and later worked at a cotton gin in Indianola, Mississippi.
King performed tirelessly throughout his musical career, appearing on average at more than 200 concerts per year into his 70s. King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and is one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, earning the nickname "The King of the Blues", and is considered one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with Albert King and Freddie King, none of whom are related). AllMusic recognized King as "the single most important electric guitarist of the last half of the 20th century". He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. King (Septem– May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B.