![]() King, which has always spoken directly and forcefully to me. In this new essay, I’m sharing the history of one particularly huge hit song by B.B. ![]() ![]() (Spoiler alert: everyone who knew him, including King and the many giants of Black music, all agree that Elvis “didn’t have a racist bone in his body.”) I have two previous essays about “The King of the Blues,” my personal obituary for him from 2015 and his (and others’) take on the question of whether Elvis was a racist. ![]() King is becoming one of my favorite things to do. Now I’m seeking you out, to let you read one of my favorite passages from the book. King) that I had to search out my wife and read them out loud to her. There were many passages that were just so wonderful (for this true fan of B.B. As a memoir, it is above all honest, thorough, frank (shockingly so, at times), and both gently self-effacing and keenly self-aware. ![]() Purposely written (by co-author David Ritz) in the style of the great Blues Man’s speech, the book was completed and published when King was 71 years old. And I am even more deeply filled with admiration for the humility and grace of the man, and for the towering genius of his music. I just finished reading Blues All Around Me - the autobiography of B.B. ![]()
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