16 Μαΐου 2015

To The King Of Blues

B.B. King: Ο μπλούζμαν που υποσχόταν να παίζει μέχρι θανάτου.
(Blues Boy King)

B.B. King, the larger-than-life guitarist and singer who helped popularize electric blues and brought it to audiences for more than six decades, died laying on his bed, Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 89.
(September 16, 1925 - May 14, 2015)


Magazine Rolling Stone ranked King number 6 on its 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time (previously ranked number 3 in the 2003 edition of the same list). He was ranked number 17 in Gibson's "Top 50 Guitarists Of All Time".