I first saw him at the Miami jai alai building in 1969 or the early 70s. I was upfront dancing. I actually got to go backstage and meet him & his wife. I didn’t know what to say. I carried one of his guitar picks in my wallet for years. Someone stole it. Then in 1975 I moved to Reno Nevada and worked at Harrah’s casino. He played two shows a night in the cabaret for about a week. He came back another year too so that must’ve been 1976. I was at most of those shows. He loved to play Keno and he had very complicated way tickets. He would walk around the casino and I never saw anybody bother him. I’m shy, otherwise I would’ve gone up to him to say Hi and tell him how much I love him & his music. The last show I saw, he was in San Francisco California. He wasn’t in good health and he didn’t play much, but the band was great and I was blessed to be there. I drove from Reno to SF just to see him. He passed away about a year after that show. I was there from the beginning to the end. I love him & I’m still dancing to his music.
I met him briefly after a concert in Detroit on 2001. I was a little overwhelmed and started crying lol. He asked if I wanted something signed, I gave him a guitar pick. He wrote BBK. He also let me touch Lucille. He was very humble for being 75 years old and just playing 2 hours.
BB King is music royalty. He always will be one of the best ever. He was just as great of a man as he was a musician. Rest in Peace, King. WE LOVE YOU. WHOA. His birthday is 4 days before mine and 5 days after my daughters. I had no idea. 🙏❤️
True, and he was such a great musician, what a bluesman and great personality. Also the documentary and video on his Sing Sing prison concert is fantastic.
He deserved every bit of it. BB was not only a great blues player. He was a great human being, as well. Humble. Respectful. Well-liked by literally EVERYONE. WE MISS YOU, KING 🙏❤️🎸
I was Very pregnant and saw him play in Tempe Arizona. Gammage Auditorium... great acoustics.... It was a rare stormy night. In the middle of a pause ... the thunder rumbled loud. BB said “Well now, I think even the weathers gots the blues tonight.” Crowd went crazy.
I learned to appreciate BB King from my father, who was a musician. He always said you could hear BB's guitar talk. I was honored to see him perform at the House of Blues in Atlantic City NJ during his "80th birthday tour" in '05 or '06. I was exhausted from a long day at work, but still remember sitting in the audience with tears in my eyes. I was saddened to hear of his passing, knowing that the world lost the last true king of the blues!
So crazy hearing the blues as a young kid growing up in Africa. Few weeks ago I was was lucky to drive through Memphis and the power of my people with what they have been through ran through my spine.
Incredible story. Every great guitarist I've ever heard or seen has had one common factor - thousands and thousands of hours of practicing and performing. No shortcuts to greatness in any field and there is always a cost. RIP BB King.
I heard Guess Who over the radio. Didnt know who it was but I spoke aloud " Oh my God, he makes the guitar talk!!" That was the beginning of my love affair with BB. I saw him twice. Once in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and the second time in London. My favourite albums are BB King and Friends 1 and 2, Live at the Apollo. Ooh Hummingbird sends shivers down my spine. Guess Who makes me feel tingly. Love comes to town makes me do headbanging. That raspy tuneful voice. The kaleidoscope of emotions that goes through his face whilst strumming the guitar. Man, I fancied him rotten!!! I even dreamt of him once, that he was performing in my hometown and I got to meet him. 😆 I miss you King of the Blues.
When I traveled from SoCal to Nashville in '97 - I visited a friend in Dyersburg, Tennessee. Chris drove us down the highway to Memphis - and our only stop was Beale Street, home of BB King's Club. They had audio speakers on the street blasting out the live sounds of a local Blues band. Then we crossed the street to a fish shack, where we ate the best fried catfish I've ever had.
A truly fabulous documentary video!!! Thank you so much for posting this!! I'm old, come from a long line of sharecropers, am blessed to have been raised up on the best music. Bless y'all!!
Long line of sharecropers? Well I love the Blues Boy King and I'm a white southern city boy that started digging Johnny Lee Hooker at the age of 12. BOOM
@@TheGuitarReb Excellent! Follow up on his two brothers, Albert and Freddie OK? And there’s a great UA-cam available with brother Albert King and another venerable southern boy, the late, great Texan Bluesman, Stevie Ray Vaughn and “Double Trouble.” (Also Check out his brother Jimmy Vaughn and his band, “The Fabulous Thunderbirds.”) Those hot opening licks on David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance?” Entirely SRV. Bowie found him at Double Trouble’s first performance at Montrose-they were the first and only players to this day who were invited to play at Montrose without an audition. Bowie was so blown away by these Classically American Bluesman he asked SRV to work with him on Bowie’s record featuring “Let’s Dance.” Those opening licks are fantastic, unforgettable. Anyway, the Kings were always very generous in bringing along young blues talent. Please check out another incredible young talent also on UA-cam, Bluesman Christone “Kingfish” Ingram: Now *there’s* there’s the past AND the future! Immerse yourself in this tradition because everything else from rock to rap has it’s roots in the Blues. Best wishes from an old widow broad waaayyyy up north ;-) You also give me hope, young man. Thanks.
B.B. has been a part of my guitar style and phrasing for a long time now he was and still is the KING OF THE BLUES and what a soulful singer tge pairing of his voice and guitar playing goes deep to the bone!!!!!!!!!
Fell in love with B.B., the first time I heard him play in 1969, on the Tonight Show, and then again in 1971, on the Ed Sullivan Show. I was 14yo, and took my babysitting money, and bought his 45rpm, The Thrill Is Gone; B-side, You're Mean. As a white girl from the North side of Chicago, it was my first introduction to Blues....and I was hooked. I never had the pleasure of seeing him live, but I followed his career till his death in 2015. Side note: 46 years after purchasing that 45rpm record, I downloaded, The Thrill Is Gone, as the ringtone for my ex-husband. It helped me move on. Thank you, B.B.
Blues has been the roots of my life and I was blessed to see BB King live in performance a few times, in California and in Canada. He certainly was the king of the Blues and indeed influential to rock musicians, i lived through it , saw it and 70 years later, it'll never die.
I love BB King...not sad enough for the blues without expanding into a more celebratory music. Proud and triumphant sounding ...lots of his music speaks for itself of how he loved living ...sure..regrets about being an absent dad mixing sorrow with joy . Beautiful!!
As a side note, BB is purported to have said “Peter Green is the only guitarist [or perhaps “the only white guitarist”] who made me sweat”. That’s some compliment coming from the King of the Blues!
OH LATE GREAT BB KING 👑👑👑 BLUESMAN I AM MISS VERY MUCH REMEMBERED YOU VERY I CDS AND BOOK GOD BLESS LIVING LEGEND OF BLUESMAN 🎶🎶🎶🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️ OH GOOD LORD TAKE ONE AWAY AMEN REST IN PEACE
As a child, I had a transistor radio with an ear piece. I would listen to WLAC and John R and hoping to hear a BB King song as my parents slept in the other bedroom. I'm a white man that plays the Blues.
I had the pleasure of seeing BB three times and left each time knowing as good a time as I had nobody in the whole place enjoyed themselves more than BB!
3/22/2022 The first B.B. King tune I ever heard was "The Thrill is Gone" on WGAR AM radio station in Cleveland, Ohio. I immediately felt the emotion in the way He sang and played, That was about the time B. B. released the tune after recording it. my folks hated it, My dad was a swing band sax player. Then in the 1970's there was a rock FM station called WMMS that played all that great 1970's music. Every now and then B. B. King, Freddie King, Albert King, and Bobby Bland would do a concert at a place called the Caracal. WMMS would on the date of the concert, about2 hours before the show that they were in town, too late for me to get ready and drive the 20+ miles to the show. I have often said; "I don't care if I'm the only white face in the place, I want to see B.B, King play. I never got the chance. So, You Tube has to do. ;-)
Seeing BB King in person is so amazing. Actually it's orgasmic. Definitely the King of the Blues because he was smart enough not to let anybody rob him like so many other bluesmen and blueswomen. The only person I can think of that even comes close to him is Bo Diddley. Unfortunately Bo Diddley never got the accolades he deserved. I saw him in a small Park in 2005 on the banks of the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie NY. I was right at the stage it was having him like singing just to me. There was a crowd of maybe 250. There were two little girls standing next to me watching me dance and they had rhythm so I started to teach them how to twirl each other around it was the most fun I had in a long time. Bo Diddley took the words to one of his very famous songs and changed it into a satirical view of the fact that gasoline was over $3.50 a gallon that year and that you could hardly drive anywhere because of the rising price of gas. Both were geniuses.
I got to dance and enjoy hearing him at Club Paradise, Memphis, TN, years ago. I was one of very few whites there. I will ALWAYS remember how cool everyone was. (P.S. I came back to add that we were all lightly searched for weapons at the entrance too!!! LoL 😉) Lisa Rae Rousseau
blues did have a little decline.... but rhythm and blues was still popular, but it became more rhythm and blues, rock, soul and Motown, and blues came back and continued to be melded with rhythm and blues ,soul , rock n roll, and motown
@@francesmathews3807 I WAS A LITTLE WHITE BOY with a transistor radio and an ear piece. I would listen late at night to "John R" when Mom & Dad were asleep, hoping the DJ would play. "The Thrill is Gone" I soon ordered a Silvertone guitar out of the Sears & Roebuck mail order catalog.
I had the pleasure of meeting him in New Orleans about a year prior to his death. He was a very kind and generous man. Some of his children and grandchildren surrounded him during this time.
I was in menphis in 1991 and I came to town by greyhound bus and there was the BB king bus at the station and a big sign "welcome Bb king" he was playing that week in his club in beale street but I didn't have the money to go, I will always regret I didn't make the effort, what a lost chance to see my idol. 😔
My nephew got to meet BBKING complete with a photo shoot when BBKING passed he paid tribute on Facebook along with him standing next to BBKING backstage in Beverly mass saying goodby friend BBKING you think my nephew was a rock star but no he was just a lucky kid that night when BBKING picked him out from the crowd
I'm watching this documentary as I prepare to write about my B. B. King Blues Cotton Sack that I started making on the day that King died. I'm looking for something about King as a Civil Rights activist. Surely, in some way, or perhaps in many ways, he was one. I'm not convinced that he was just a man who played the blues. J. Janice Coleman
An amazing documentary Thank you for this great man Jesus is the Son of God by the way, believe in his death and Resurrection and repent from sin, then confess his lordship over your life . Love you♥️
I was married to Martha's brothers son George Denton my name is Brenda Denton my family is also from lndenola Mississippi and Kilmicheal Mississippi I feel very privileged😊
I can't imagine the life that BB lived. I couldn't even begin to imagine, even after watching this. Wow. I've always had nothing but respect for Mr King but watching this just makes me have THAT MUCH MORE. W O W! Thank God he lived long enough to to realize that he is among the best ever. Those giants whose shoulders we stand on? Of them, the largest belong to the legend himself, Mr Riley "B.B." King. We love you, Mr King. 🙏❤️
Brilliant to get to know his background and beginnings. Although a whole lot of Blues musicians from that time came from cotton fields, gospel roots and a life with turmoil somehow. Smashing. Thanks for sharing!
i know some of te great rock n roll fusion bands fom te 60s and early 70s, like gypsy, ten years after, Free, ect. they are a wonderful blend of the blues, rock n roll, soul and rnb
Please! Please! Please! (As James Brown screamed) I say, lets not get into politics! I'm a white racist for goodness sake! Well that's what some people think.
I first saw him at the Miami jai alai building in 1969 or the early 70s. I was upfront dancing. I actually got to go backstage and meet him & his wife. I didn’t know what to say. I carried one of his guitar picks in my wallet for years. Someone stole it.
Then in 1975 I moved to Reno Nevada and worked at Harrah’s casino. He played two shows a night in the cabaret for about a week. He came back another year too so that must’ve been 1976. I was at most of those shows. He loved to play Keno and he had very complicated way tickets. He would walk around the casino and I never saw anybody bother him. I’m shy, otherwise I would’ve gone up to him to say Hi and tell him how much I love him & his music.
The last show I saw, he was in San Francisco California. He wasn’t in good health and he didn’t play much, but the band was great and I was blessed to be there. I drove from Reno to SF just to see him. He passed away about a year after that show.
I was there from the beginning to the end. I love him & I’m still dancing to his music.
Wow Reno to San Fran is a good jump
I met him briefly after a concert in Detroit on 2001. I was a little overwhelmed and started crying lol. He asked if I wanted something signed, I gave him a guitar pick. He wrote BBK. He also let me touch Lucille. He was very humble for being 75 years old and just playing 2 hours.
Kind man! ❤️🎼🎼🎼Muddy Waters was also a Treat! I love the intimate venues in later years, acoustically primo!
He was so humble those people done something with his 💵
BB King is music royalty. He always will be one of the best ever. He was just as great of a man as he was a musician.
Rest in Peace, King. WE LOVE YOU.
WHOA. His birthday is 4 days before mine and 5 days after my daughters. I had no idea. 🙏❤️
It's so nice that BB lived a long life and saw some real success and money. Most of the old blues artists didn't.
True, and he was such a great musician, what a bluesman and great personality. Also the documentary and video on his Sing Sing prison concert is fantastic.
Edd
He deserved every bit of it. BB was not only a great blues player. He was a great human being, as well. Humble. Respectful. Well-liked by literally EVERYONE.
WE MISS YOU, KING 🙏❤️🎸
Yes he did
I love me some bb king honey he could sing
Absolutely a legend! Still get chills when I hear him play!
I was Very pregnant and saw him play in Tempe Arizona. Gammage Auditorium... great acoustics.... It was a rare stormy night. In the middle of a pause ... the thunder rumbled loud. BB said “Well now, I think even the weathers gots the blues tonight.” Crowd went crazy.
@@grannyearth5496 Thank you...
And then some 🙊🙈🙈😘😘🤗🤗🤗🤗
I learned to appreciate BB King from my father, who was a musician. He always said you could hear BB's guitar talk. I was honored to see him perform at the House of Blues in Atlantic City NJ during his "80th birthday tour" in '05 or '06. I was exhausted from a long day at work, but still remember sitting in the audience with tears in my eyes. I was saddened to hear of his passing, knowing that the world lost the last true king of the blues!
RIP BB KING thank you for all.
So crazy hearing the blues as a young kid growing up in Africa.
Few weeks ago I was was lucky to drive through Memphis and the power of my people with what they have been through ran through my spine.
Congolese here much love
Incredible story. Every great guitarist I've ever heard or seen has had one common factor - thousands and thousands of hours of practicing and performing. No shortcuts to greatness in any field and there is always a cost. RIP BB King.
So thankful I was able to see BB in person. Last of a dying breed. Long live the King.
BB King, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Howling Wolf and John Lee Hooker made the Blues a real art form.
I heard Guess Who over the radio. Didnt know who it was but I spoke aloud " Oh my God, he makes the guitar talk!!" That was the beginning of my love affair with BB.
I saw him twice. Once in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and the second time in London.
My favourite albums are BB King and Friends 1 and 2, Live at the Apollo. Ooh Hummingbird sends shivers down my spine. Guess Who makes me feel tingly. Love comes to town makes me do headbanging. That raspy tuneful voice. The kaleidoscope of emotions that goes through his face whilst strumming the guitar. Man, I fancied him rotten!!! I even dreamt of him once, that he was performing in my hometown and I got to meet him. 😆
I miss you King of the Blues.
My favourite Hero.
Thank You For the Great Blues Music.
R.I.P.
When I traveled from SoCal to Nashville in '97 - I visited a friend in Dyersburg, Tennessee. Chris drove us down the highway to Memphis - and our only stop was Beale Street, home of BB King's Club. They had audio speakers on the street blasting out the live sounds of a local Blues band. Then we crossed the street to a fish shack, where we ate the best fried catfish I've ever had.
A truly fabulous documentary video!!! Thank you so much for posting this!! I'm old, come from a long line of sharecropers, am blessed to have been raised up on the best music. Bless y'all!!
Long line of sharecropers? Well I love the Blues Boy King and I'm a white southern city boy that started digging Johnny Lee Hooker at the age of 12.
BOOM
@@TheGuitarRebCool, you was raised up on the good stuff!
@@TheGuitarReb Excellent! Follow up on his two brothers, Albert and Freddie OK? And there’s a great UA-cam available with brother Albert King and another venerable southern boy, the late, great Texan Bluesman, Stevie Ray Vaughn and “Double Trouble.” (Also Check out his brother Jimmy Vaughn and his band, “The Fabulous Thunderbirds.”) Those hot opening licks on David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance?” Entirely SRV. Bowie found him at Double Trouble’s first performance at Montrose-they were the first and only players to this day who were invited to play at Montrose without an audition. Bowie was so blown away by these Classically American Bluesman he asked SRV to work with him on Bowie’s record featuring “Let’s Dance.” Those opening licks are fantastic, unforgettable.
Anyway, the Kings were always very generous in bringing along young blues talent. Please check out another incredible young talent also on UA-cam, Bluesman Christone “Kingfish” Ingram: Now *there’s* there’s the past AND the future!
Immerse yourself in this tradition because everything else from rock to rap has it’s roots in the Blues.
Best wishes from an old widow broad waaayyyy up north ;-) You also give me hope, young man. Thanks.
@Obe Doobie, Oops, sorry, didn’t see your comment below! Oh well, maybe there’s somethin’ someone can use!
In 1989 in Auckland, New Zealand , BB King , performing with U2, endeared himself to the audience. Nobody who was there will ever forget that night.
The Great Mr.B.B. King the legacy of a man gone but never ever his legacy forgotten..Jimi
B.B. has been a part of my guitar style and phrasing for a long time now he was and still is the KING OF THE BLUES and what a soulful singer tge pairing of his voice and guitar playing goes deep to the bone!!!!!!!!!
Fell in love with B.B., the first time I heard him play in 1969, on the Tonight Show, and then again in 1971, on the Ed Sullivan Show.
I was 14yo, and took my babysitting money, and bought his 45rpm, The Thrill Is Gone; B-side, You're Mean. As a white girl from the North side of Chicago, it was my first introduction to Blues....and I was hooked.
I never had the pleasure of seeing him live, but I followed his career till his death in 2015.
Side note: 46 years after purchasing that 45rpm record, I downloaded, The Thrill Is Gone, as the ringtone for my ex-husband. It helped me move on. Thank you, B.B.
And I am Asian. Blues do not feature prominently in our music scene.
Great story, thanks for sharing
@@bahma810 What a damn shame, my friend.
we miss you BB
He will always be "The King of the Blues".
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FOR REAL. I AGREE WITH YOU"
Blues yes. Very special yes. He was was the father of rock and roll too.
As Clapton said he was so versatile. Love him
will miss you forever BB King...The greatest King of All Times...Love you BB..✊🏼
B.B. King - 🙂🎸 King Of The Blues - 🎸 🙂
Blues has been the roots of my life and I was blessed to see BB King live in performance a few times, in California and in Canada. He certainly was the king of the Blues and indeed influential to rock musicians, i lived through it , saw it and 70 years later, it'll never die.
My dream came true when I saw BB King at the sunrise theater in fort Pierce Florida it was great
I love BB King...not sad enough for the blues without expanding into a more celebratory music.
Proud and triumphant sounding ...lots of his music speaks for itself of how he loved living ...sure..regrets about being an absent dad mixing sorrow with joy .
Beautiful!!
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Thank you so much for uploading this wonderful Documentary on the Legendary King of Blues Mr. B.B. King!!🎸💓🎼🎶
I saw bb in 1968 at Yale University..a life changing experience
COOL
Legend. Thanks for the music BB. It lives on forever.
As a side note, BB is purported to have said “Peter Green is the only guitarist [or perhaps “the only white guitarist”] who made me sweat”. That’s some compliment coming from the King of the Blues!
I do miss the man. Rest easy King.
HE PAYED THE COST TO BE BOSS VERY GOOD VIDEO IM I GREW UP ON BB KING AND JIMMY REED THE BEST THAT EVER DID IT I THANK YOU BB KING MAY HE REST IN PEACE
his music was excellent for people who like to drown in heart break to get over it with BB's story music telling,my Aunt Lula adored him.
OH LATE GREAT BB KING 👑👑👑 BLUESMAN I AM MISS VERY MUCH REMEMBERED YOU VERY I CDS AND BOOK GOD BLESS LIVING LEGEND OF BLUESMAN 🎶🎶🎶🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️ OH GOOD LORD TAKE ONE AWAY AMEN REST IN PEACE
As a child, I had a transistor radio with an ear piece. I would listen to WLAC and John R and hoping to hear a BB King song as my parents slept in the other bedroom. I'm a white man that plays the Blues.
I loved my transistor radio ,so many great memories . I had a portable wind up record player and that was great too.
B.B. King is one of the few people that I would actually like to see a biopic about. He has a really interesting and complex story.
No one ever looked as comfortable with their guitar than B.B. King
BBKing had the blues from deep within his soul, he was a great legend.
May he rest in peace 🙏
Sydney 🇦🇺 Australia
I had the pleasure of seeing BB three times and left each time knowing as good a time as I had nobody in the whole place enjoyed themselves more than BB!
A veritable music hero for me. I love the Blues!
R.I.P. Mr King
You are missed
B.B. 🤴 King has a great story that can't be denied 👏 .When he played the blues 💙 you know you was invincible.
3/22/2022
The first B.B. King tune I ever heard was "The Thrill is Gone" on WGAR AM radio station in Cleveland, Ohio. I immediately felt the emotion in the way He sang and played, That was about the time B. B. released the tune after recording it. my folks hated it, My dad was a swing band sax player.
Then in the 1970's there was a rock FM station called WMMS that played all that great 1970's music. Every now and then B. B. King, Freddie King, Albert King, and Bobby Bland would do a concert at a place called the Caracal. WMMS would on the date of the concert, about2 hours before the show that they were in town, too late for me to get ready and drive the 20+ miles to the show.
I have often said; "I don't care if I'm the only white face in the place, I want to see B.B, King play. I never got the chance. So, You Tube has to do. ;-)
Great Documentary, Greatest blues guy.
Seeing BB King in person is so amazing. Actually it's orgasmic. Definitely the King of the Blues because he was smart enough not to let anybody rob him like so many other bluesmen and blueswomen. The only person I can think of that even comes close to him is Bo Diddley. Unfortunately Bo Diddley never got the accolades he deserved. I saw him in a small Park in 2005 on the banks of the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie NY. I was right at the stage it was having him like singing just to me. There was a crowd of maybe 250. There were two little girls standing next to me watching me dance and they had rhythm so I started to teach them how to twirl each other around it was the most fun I had in a long time. Bo Diddley took the words to one of his very famous songs and changed it into a satirical view of the fact that gasoline was over $3.50 a gallon that year and that you could hardly drive anywhere because of the rising price of gas. Both were geniuses.
Thanks u for making this great documentary on the BB.King ,, a great blues man ,,,may God rest in peace .
Saw him at Belmont Theatre in Chicago. Love Him.
I got to dance and enjoy hearing him at Club Paradise, Memphis, TN, years ago. I was one of very few whites there. I will ALWAYS remember how cool everyone was. (P.S. I came back to add that we were all lightly searched for weapons at the entrance too!!! LoL 😉) Lisa Rae Rousseau
I enjoyed this so much, it was serendipitous that I was 1000th like 👍🏻!
BB KING is my hero we both come from small towns in Mississippi I’m from West Point Mississippi
Itscso incredible how all I listen to is
BB the King now, I finally have a great appreciation for all old time blues
blues did have a little decline.... but rhythm and blues was still popular, but it became more rhythm and blues, rock, soul and Motown, and blues came back and continued to be melded with rhythm and blues ,soul , rock n roll, and motown
One of the TRUE Blues Kings!!!
I'm 36 I still love him he still live
This was highly influential... dialing in on my blues chords and my blues settings on my loops ...
If he hadn't so identified for his playing, he would have been known for his voice. Man could sing.
Fantastic documentary not seen this before, thanks for upload
My Papa loved BB King' the blues was the only music for him'
For me it's 'the three kings', Albert, B.B. and Freddie King. Legends!
And Stevie Ray took a little from each one of those legends.
My Mom loved BBKing. I like it too & I was just a little girl!
@@francesmathews3807 I WAS A LITTLE WHITE BOY with a transistor radio and an ear piece. I would listen late at night to "John R" when Mom & Dad were asleep, hoping the DJ would play. "The Thrill is Gone" I soon ordered a Silvertone guitar out of the Sears & Roebuck mail order catalog.
Stevie Ray Vaughn was a genius musician. Watch on youtube and you will see Albert King smile. Not many could make Albert do that.
@Beatnik Records Was still great in his own style.😉
I had the pleasure of meeting him in New Orleans about a year prior to his death. He was a very kind and generous man. Some of his children and grandchildren surrounded him during this time.
One of my influences is bb king
He is so praised for guitar (rightfully so) that it's easy to overlook that he was also one of the greatest blues singers too
Rest in Peace BB!
What surprised me is that there never was a tribute concert for him.
Long live " The King.... Of The Blues "!!!!! Thanks B.B. King .🤘🏾🌈
Saw BB in Memphis, on Beale St. in a small intimate club environment in 1989.
I was in menphis in 1991 and I came to town by greyhound bus and there was the BB king bus at the station and a big sign "welcome Bb king" he was playing that week in his club in beale street but I didn't have the money to go, I will always regret I didn't make the effort, what a lost chance to see my idol. 😔
thanks 4 sharing your storys
My nephew got to meet BBKING complete with a photo shoot when BBKING passed he paid tribute on Facebook along with him standing next to BBKING backstage in Beverly mass saying goodby friend BBKING you think my nephew was a rock star but no he was just a lucky kid that night when BBKING picked him out from the crowd
REST 🌟🌈 B.B KING 👑 ICON LEGEND TRULY ICON THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟❤️🖤💚🤎 FAMILY DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜,
I'm watching this documentary as I prepare to write about my B. B. King Blues Cotton Sack that I started making on the day that King died. I'm looking for something about King as a Civil Rights activist. Surely, in some way, or perhaps in many ways, he was one. I'm not convinced that he was just a man who played the blues. J. Janice Coleman
An amazing documentary
Thank you for this great man
Jesus is the Son of God by the way, believe in his death and Resurrection and repent from sin, then confess his lordship over your life . Love you♥️
I was married to Martha's brothers son George Denton my name is Brenda Denton my family is also from lndenola Mississippi and Kilmicheal Mississippi I feel very privileged😊
Hendrix brought the blues back in 1967 when he got famous. Please mention him.
king u will be remembered till theend of time
There's nothing like having Ossie Davis narrate your story.
Live At The Regal top 10 albums of all time.There I said it.
Rest In Peace B.B king from Australia
I can't imagine the life that BB lived. I couldn't even begin to imagine, even after watching this.
Wow. I've always had nothing but respect for Mr King but watching this just makes me have THAT MUCH MORE. W O W! Thank God he lived long enough to to realize that he is among the best ever.
Those giants whose shoulders we stand on?
Of them, the largest belong to the legend himself, Mr Riley "B.B." King.
We love you, Mr King. 🙏❤️
I seen him & Bobby B. Bland in Chicago at the Regal & the High Charparell many time back in the day.
Absolutely Amazing!!!!
THE KING OF THE BLUES,OH YES HE IS
Brilliant to get to know his background and beginnings. Although a whole lot of Blues musicians from that time came from cotton fields, gospel roots and a life with turmoil somehow. Smashing. Thanks for sharing!
Howling Wolf The Legend!
I love this man
The King of Blues Guitar
i know some of te great rock n roll fusion bands fom te 60s and early 70s, like gypsy, ten years after, Free, ect. they are a wonderful blend of the blues, rock n roll, soul and rnb
The greatest guitar 🎸
Legendary musician
His road manager Bee Bop was my uncle,BB king was at my house a lot in mobile Alabama when I was a child, but I didn't understand who he was
2021 thinking of you King, today we put a Sister in the White House as our vice president Kamala Harris, the thrill is live and well, RIp my brother,
Please! Please! Please! (As James Brown screamed) I say, lets not get into politics! I'm a white racist for goodness sake! Well that's what some people think.
@@TheGuitarReb oh you are not! ;-) But I hear ya, my friend!
Thank you so much!!
He's still the King, wailing out those sultry tunes.
Love this so much.Real real pure he was.
Thanks for the history Mr King you are the king of the blue's
Just love B.B.
I saw him twice and it was something i will NEVER forget!!
I can only listen to his vinyls and cds.
yep, as far as im concerned, the 3 kings to me are: BB king, Albert king, and Freddie king.
"The Blues" Hot Buttered Soul with a generous helping of Pain !
THE VERY BEST.
Great doco
As I am more into Chicago Blues, I am Proud to say that I saw him 12 Times, and some belong to my Top Ten Concerts.