![]() Hey, I saw you play in Chicago last week it was a fantastic show. : Hi BB (laughing) Bad Bill, huh? īB King: Well, I don’t want everybody calling me just to ask me if I can sing The Thrill is Gone. I’m calling to do an interview with BB King.īB King live circa 1985. Consider also that this is his seventh album in the past six years, and you have to ask: Does BB King ever sleep? Reflections, BB’s latest recording for label MCA, finds him covering a surprisingly broad range of personal favourites (including Willie Nelson’s Always on My Mind), but then King has always been proud of his open-minded taste in music. There’s even a spot on the guitar neck named after him “BB’s Box”. His sweet vibrato has been studied and copied by millions, including many an A-list rock star. His disciples are many, both in the blues idiom and throughout the rock world as well. By that account alone, BB King deserves the title, The King of the Blues.īB is without question one of the most influential guitar players blues or otherwise to ever have pulled on a G-string. Keep up with what, you ask? Think about this: It’s been more than 50 years since he scored his first hit single, but he’s still out there traveling and performing at the age of 77,200-plus nights per year. Go ahead and try to keep up, few will ever be able to claim they could. This interview was originally published in 2003.
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