Shortly after he arrived in Memphis early 1949, BB King landed a broadcasting slot in the pioneering radio station WDIA.
'But there were others like Lemon Jefferson - we called him Blind Lemon - Lonnie Johnson, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt,' says BB 'These were the people who were most influential.' The slide guitarist Bukka White, a star of the pre-war blues, was a cousin of his mother and an early mentor BB King wanted to imitate Whites singing Slide sound, but without using a bottleneck. King T-Bone took as one of its starting points on the guitar. Born in the heart of the Mississippi Delta near Itta Bena on September 16, 1925, Riley B. During an unsurpassed recording career that has lasted for over six decades, he has invented the guitar licks that define the genre. When T-Bone Walker was the father of electric blues guitar, then BB is King of the noble Lord who brought them to the people.
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