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Interview with BB King

For over half a century, Riley B. King – better known as BB King – has defined the blues for a worldwide audience. Since she began recording in 1940 and has published more than 50 albums, many classical works.

Born in Mississippi, King was instrumental in corners of rooms dime in his youth, sometimes playing up to four cities at night. In 1947, he hitchhiked to Memphis, Tennessee to pursue his career music and the rest, as saying, is history of the blues.

Legends of Blues, BB King and Buddy Guy took the blues to the next level January 2 at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood. As you might imagine, these two blues legends gave a performance that will long be remembered. After the show, I had the opportunity to meet BB King. I've never known a kind and gentle soul. He spoke with my father and me for nearly fifty minutes, and signed autographs for many, including a CD and a red electric guitar. Truly a great man.

BB King has taken the time to tour current busy to answer a few questions.

Q: When did you first become interested in the guitar?

When I a very young child, my mother took me to the church and the pastor at the church played the guitar. It made me want to play, because he wanted to be like him. I'm not very fast. I am very, very slow. I am still learning. My first guitar was a red guitar Stella. It took me $ 15, and I made $ 15 per month currently. My boss bought the guitar for me and allowed me to bear fruit.

Q: Who were some of your early musical influences?

One was a guy named Lonnie Johnson, who plays acoustic guitar and sings the blues. Another was Lemon Jefferson. I was told Lemon Jefferson was born blind, because everyone called Blind Lemon. blues acoustic guitar performed and sung. Then I heard a jazz guitarist named Charlie Christian and it was electric. And man, I do not! Another was a French gypsy, a guy named Django Reinhart, also played the acoustic guitar, but I had an amplifier through microphone. And the boy was very good. And yet, I have my MP3 with me today is T-Bone Walker. He played the electric guitar, chain, especially the blues. If the agreements of fat when you hit them, and I liked it. The five were my biggest influences. I could never play as one of them. I tried several times but today I could not play like them.

Q: Were some his earliest recordings, done at the famous Sun disk Memphis?

I tried entering the market. I'm good enough as a singer and player registration. And you know, in Mississippi do not even have music or a music workshop. But I heard that Memphis had a recording studio, which was one reason why it happened. His name was Sam Phillips. But ever for him, which recorded in his studio. But I never play for him.

Q: Of all the guitars in the world, why choose to play the exclusive Gibson guitar?

He has a long thick neck on it. I have big fat hands and I am a big guy. During the early years, was difficult to obtain good guitar. Was hard. I hear people talk about today its hard to find a good guitar, but the guitars of today are like insects to me, not so much of them. At that time, I could not make enough money to buy one. I tried all sorts. Who designed Gibson guitars in the beginning was a very good job. One of the things I love, it is so neck chain to stop – if I take my hand and my hand is like this sample (), but after a while begins to do so – the handle of the guitar does. Well, put me a cane Gibson. And when it starts to fall somewhat, there is little you have a key so you can adjust and straighten again. That's another thing I like. If my fingers, I large calluses on them like the others because I keep the action close to the frets.

Q: Are you critical to all of its own game?

Yes, in the early years, should be addressed to a small Juke Joint and play. Someone come to play better than you, and you do not return. They are done with you. I really think I'm a bit like that today, I'm never better than my last concert. And every night I errors. But the only part that is good enough when you make a mistake and cover it, without anyone else to catch. This is the good part. I have a group, some have been with me until 26 years and when I make mistakes I'm so ashamed, I do not want to catch me. The more difficult in practice, trying to do the same thing you did when you did not know that you are until you hear and try to hide there where I do not know. Someone might say, "Oh, BB, and lick you again, eh? How can you do?" Oh, do not know. "Because I do not know what he did in the first place.

Q: The blues and the guitar are natural, but you can play just about anything on a guitar, right?

I heard people playing classical music a harp, but then I heard the boys play the blues. Thus it is usually the person and the instrument. I'll give you an example: you have an old piano sitting corner. Before Ray (Charles) died, if he played sounded like Ray. Billy Joel that sounds like Billy Joel, Elton John sound like him. To which she comes to you. It makes a difference in the sound, because I know I can take your guitar here or there is a person and I speak like me. As the song of a person, you learn to sing like you. Now you can try to imitate somebody else, but if allowed to do their own thing, you will like.

Q: What do you think what draws people to the electric guitar?

No se. Perhaps the era of the guitar. In fact, some time ago, it was the saxophone. Large sets saxophones presented. The People like Benny Goodman gave the clarinet. But it was too that the masters of the clarinet, but there were enough people who seemed to dominate the saxophone. It was piano. Today, almost even to find the guitar plays well – his way. And maybe that's all.

Q: Do you think the blues has lost his appeal to black people. it still does resonate with them?

BB: When I was a kid, there was no station radio that plays music, black music or black. Jazz, for example, began after the Blues had gone out for a very long time, and the only person I think that may have played at least he was popular was Louis Armstrong and Louis Blues played in time. In fact, at first, most fundamental "Black Stars "have all played the blues. Nat Cole played the blues. He Fitzgerald. Et Count Basie and Duke Ellington. I could cite many of them who did it. But few of them arrested. They just do more of other things that could make money. They never stopped. Blues musicians consider as one of the blues musicians such as Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson. My idols: Lonnie Johnson and Lemon Jefferson, O God, and then 40 and 50 years, Louis Jordan and Big Boy Crudup. Lightning Hopkins, these people, who was known by some whites, but whites have not really had the opportunity to hear music as they do today. And the 50s, which had the Motown sound, which was very popular among whites. And popular among blacks, but very popular among white people, jobs and places to play and jobs were plentiful. The whites could afford to pay for certain characteristics that blacks did not for the Motown sound was very popular among blacks, but more with the whites. At that time rock and roll was starting, so that rock and roll when we started there was no room for blues players to come in. If you were not in rock and roll side, you do not work the main places to play, so it has never been in my opinion, a lot of black blues musicians. not many of them. And, of course, today, Yes, you really white children to play and supportin blues. and I'm so happy, I'm very happy because it has opened so many places, many doors were opened to Blues musicians like me. but you can almost count on blue players was there, we say that he tried to make a living blues. I can close them the names of both hands. But some of these learned to rock and roll or soul later, and I have done this cross, because then it where the money was. blues musicians made no money. And then there was often no place to play. Anyone you hire. Some us who stuck with it says I am, Bobby Bland, Little Milton, oh, I can cite a few, but those who follow me with the same Namin.

Q. How to Survive difficult times? What was your motivation?

BB: Well, I felt like I grew up in the South, was a teacher. He still lives. It 100 years old today and he told us that life is always in some sort, which often change over time because people change. He told me that when I about 10 or 12. He told me several things that I remember today as if I was saying. When I went to school we had no bus up. Live in the country. We had to walk. We had about 5 miles a day at school. Then he told me afterwards that he did not be like this all the time. Finally, we have school bus like everyone else and most cases, riding with other children. And you know Because I

Q: You played and recorded with Eric Clapton, considered one of the best guitarists in the world. What are your thoughts on him?

If I were Eric is number one. Is the number one rock and roll guitarist the world. And play the blues better than most of us. That's what I think of him.

For those of you planning a trip to the south, is served you well by visiting BB King Museum. BB King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center is located in the heart of the Mississippi Delta on U.S. Highway 82 between Greenwood and Greenville, not far from the famous crossroads in Clarksdale. It opened in mid-September 2008 and built to honor the life and music of one of the finest musicians of our time, the museum is a vital resource for the state of Mississippi and the city of Indianola. The museum's exhibits and educational programs used to build bridges between the community and the world while preserving the rich cultural and musical heritage of the Mississippi Delta.

BB King's life is the framework for the Museum share a rich cultural heritage of the Mississippi Delta. Through a presentation of authentic music, art, artifacts and video, as well as our educational programs, Museum honors his name and musician of international renown and most influential Delta blues heritage and celebrate local culture, encourages and inspires young artists and musicians, and enriches the lives of youth and all those who visit the museum on the campus of Delta.

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About the Author

BILL HERNANDEZ IS AN ENTERTAINMENT WRITER FOR THE SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-TIMES, AVENTURA DIGEST, ENV MAGAZINE, AND CONTRIBUTOR TO THE WHEELING INTELLIGENCER.

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