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TourTulsa, OK Tulsa Performing Arts Ctr.Whenever the King of the Blues has carried his venerable guitar Lucille onto any stage at any time, the performance has become an...King arrived in Memphis for the first time in 1946 to work as a musician but after few months of hardship he left, going back to Mississippi.In 1949, he began recording songs under contract with Los Angeles based RPM Records.King was also a disc jockey in Memphis, where he gained the nickname "Beale Street Blues Boy", later shortened to "B.Before his RPM contract, B.Bullet Records by issuing a single "Miss Martha King" (1949) that got a bad review on Billboard magazine and did not chart well.In November 1964, King recorded the legendary Live at the Regal album at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois.Yet throughout this time he maintained a highly visible and active career, appearing on numerous television shows and performing 300 nights a year.King and the Irish band U2 (on their Rattle and Hum album).King appeared in "The Blues Brothers 2000" playing the part of the lead singer of the Louisiana Gator Boys, along with Eric Clapton, Dr.In June 2006, King was present at a memorialization of his first radio broadcast at the Three Deuces Building in Greenwood, Mississippi, where an official marker of the Mississippi Blues Trail was erected.King also made an appearance at the Crossroads Guitar Festival put on by Eric Clapton.In June 2006, a groundbreaking was held for a new B.Farewell tour
Aged 80 at the time, on March 29 2006, King played at the Sheffield's Hallam Arena.This was the first date of his UK and European farewell tour.The British leg of the tour ended on April 4 with a final UK concert at Wembley Arena.In July King went back to Europe.In November and December, King played six times in Brazil.Paulo, a journalist asked King if that would be the actual farewell tour.Most of you know him as James Bond, 007.He made a movie called "Never Say Never Again."King Played at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival with 20 other guitarists to raise money for the Crossroads Center, Antigua for addictive disorders.King is the subject of an acclaimed biography, B.He was released on January 27, after an overnight stay.King has credited Sinatra for opening doors to black entertainers who weren't given the chance to play in "white dominated" venues.King homecoming festival is held in Indianola, Mississippi.Famed Delta Blues artist Bukka White is King's first cousin.Philanthropy
King is a proponent of music education for children.In 2002, he signed on as an official supporter of Little Kids Rock; a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and free lessons to children in public schools throughout the U.Lucille
One of his trademarks is "Lucille", the name he has given to his guitars since the 1950s after he escaped a fire at a juke joint he was playing in.The fire was started by two men who were fighting over a woman named "Lucille".During their fight, they knocked over the bucket of burning kerosene used for heat.He ran back inside to get it and after learning of what happened, he named his guitar "Lucille" to remind himself not to do it again.King (1981)
The King of the Blues: 1989 (1988)
Got My Mojo Working (1989)
King of the Blues (Box Set, 1992)
Why I Sing the Blues (1992)
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: B.University of Mississippi and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music awarded him the Polar Music Prize, for his "significant contributions to the blues".Roll Hall of Fame, becoming one of the first artists to be honored by the museum.Friends: 80), 2003 (for A Christmas Celebration of Hope), 2001 (for Riding with the King), 2000 (for Blues on the Bayou), 1994 (for Blues Summit), 1992 (for Live at the Apollo), 1991 (for Live at San Quentin), 1986 (for My Guitar Sings the Blues) and 1984 (for Blues 'N' Jazz).In 1997, he won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance (with other artists, for "SRV Shuffle").King was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995.This is given to recognize "the lifelong accomplishments and extraordinary talents of our Nation's most prestigious artists."Quotes
"About 15 times, a lady has said: 'It's either me or Lucille."Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!"When asked what he'd do differently, could he live his life over: "I would have finished high school."King released from Texas hospital", Houston Chronicle, January 27, 2007.King websites on the net
B.King UK Fan Site
Live in Wembley 2006
B.King at the Internet Movie Database
B.King biographer Charlie Sawyer writes about returning to the Delta and a "charette" on the B.King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Mississippi.This page was last modified 19:35, 22 January 2008.Home
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