B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the “King of the Blues”

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Charles Sawyer “Monster” Mike Welch

B.B. King

From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the “King of the Blues”

Charles Sawyer, “Monster” Mike Welch, Nick Nurse , Cherie Hoyt

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Schiffer Publishing Ltd
01 July 2022

Blues; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

B.B. King's journey from sharecropper to musical icon, one who brought the music of America - the blues - to the world.

This book documents a great American story, that of B. B. King, the ""King of the Blues,"" and one of America's most important popular musicians. With fascinating images and history - most published for the first time - it traces his migration from the Chitlin' Circuit (the national network of Black theaters and roadhouses), to Club Ebony in his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and eventually to Carnegie Hall. What was it about Riley B. King that enabled him to become the worldwide ""King of the Blues""? The author's quest to answer that question is chronicled here and tells the story of the once-impossible friendship between someone who grew up poor and Black in Mississippi and the white middle-class New Englander who fell in love with the blues and was determined to tell the story of his musical hero. King thrilled his audiences not only with his musical prowess, but with his capacity to establish intimacy, regardless of crowd size; he gave an estimated 18,000 concerts in 90 countries. B. B. King: From Indianola to Icon tells the story of King's journey from sharecropper to musical icon, one who brought the music of America - the blues - to the world. It is a book for blues fans and others who want to know how and why this transformation occurred.

AUTHOR: Charles Sawyer is a photographer, writer, and leader of the blues band 2120 South Michigan Avenue. He wrote The Arrival of B. B. King (Doubleday, 1980), the first full-length biography of the great bluesman. Now retired, he was a software professional for high-tech companies and taught both software and blues history courses at Harvard Extension School. He consulted for the B. B. King Museum during its development.

318 colour and b/w illustrations

By: Charles Sawyer
Foreword by: “Monster” Mike Welch
Edited by: Cherie Hoyt
Other: Nick Nurse
Imprint: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 279mm,
Weight: 1.633kg
ISBN: 9780764363856
ISBN 10: 0764363859
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 July 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Charles Sawyer is a photographer, writer, and leader of the blues band 2120 South Michigan Avenue. He has taught blues history courses at Harvard Extension School and consulted for the B.B. King Museum during its development. This is his second book on blues legend B. B King.