A Conversation with B.B. King and Al Green
The Broward Times › October 19, 2009
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"B.B. is the King! He's been doing this longer than I've been alive," says Green.
King said he is not that old, considering that Brahms and Beethoven's music from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is still around. He loves performing and the late Pope John didn't tell him when he would "check out," he said, so he'll do it until it's time for him to go.During the concert, he said, "Growing up, life was good because I didn't know nothing outside the 8 or 9 miles around the farm. I went to town on Saturday night, the only time I saw electric lights in houses. I stood at a furniture store window, looking at a television wondering where the man was who was talking. My cousin said, 'on TV, fool!'"See the full content of this document
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A Conversation with B.B. King and Al Green
At 81, Riley B. King is the most notable entertainer on Earth, defining blues worldwide, with more than 50 classic albums.
From a plantation in Itta Bena, Miss., King played in four towns a night, for dimes, until moving to Memphis, where important South...See the full content of this document
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