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In 1969, after twenty years of making records, singer-guitarist B.B. King -- a tractor driver's son, born into the crushing poverty and labor of sharecropping life in Itta Bena, Mississippi -- achieved household-name fame with the howling despair and stinging guitar of his Top Twenty pop single "The...

2005 RS: 5of 5 Stars

B.B. King & Friends - 80

2005

Reflections

2003

A Christmas Celebration Of Hope

2001

Makin' Love Is Good For You

2000

Deuces Wild

1997

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B.B. King is universally recognized as the leading exponent of modern blues. Playing his trademark Gibson guitar, which he refers to affectionately as Lucille, King's voice-like string bends and left-hand vibrato have influenced numerous rock guitarists, including Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, as well as modern blues players such as Buddy Guy. An eight-time Grammy...

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