King of the Blues - Daniel de Vise, Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
King of the Blues is the story of the first and only superstar of American blues. But it is also a chronicle of the African-American experience.B.B. King grew up in the Deep South, a few generations…
Specifikacia King of the Blues - Daniel de Vise, Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
King of the Blues is the story of the first and only superstar of American blues. But it is also a chronicle of the African-American experience.B.B. King grew up in the Deep South, a few generations after the end of slavery, imprisoned within a cruel system of wage slavery known as sharecropping. King of the Blues will also tell the larger story of the birth of modern popular music. B.B. King's boundless ambition and tireless toil gave him initial success, topping the charts in the 1950s and early '60s.But then his career hit a wall when his version of classic blues music could not break