In October, King fell ill during a show and after being diagnosed with dehydration and exhaustion, canceled his concert tour and had not returned to touring at the time of his death. PDT Thursday at his home in Las Vegas, his attorney Brent Bryson tells the AP. The Mississippi-born guitarist, who had suffered from Type II diabetes for two decades, died peacefully in his sleep at 9:40 p.m. King, the last of the Southern-born blues musicians who defined modern electric blues in the 1950s and would influence scores of rock and blues guitarists, has died.
In B.B.’s words, “When I sing, I play in my mind the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.B.B. has mixed traditional blues, jazz, swing, mainstream pop and jump into a unique sound. His economy, his every-note-counts phrasing, has been a model for thousands of players, from Eric Clapton and George Harrison to Jeff Beck. He borrowed from Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker and others, integrating his precise and complex vocal-like string bends and his left hand vibrato, both of which have become indispensable components of rock guitarist’s vocabulary. has developed one of the world’s most identifiable guitar styles. stayed with his cousin Bukka White, one of the most celebrated blues performers of his time, who schooled B.B. Memphis was where every important musician of the South gravitated, and which supported a large musical community where every style of African American music could be found. In 1947, he hitchhiked to Memphis, TN, to pursue his music career. In his youth, he played on street corners for dimes, and would sometimes play in as many as four towns a night. He was born September 16, 1925, on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, near Indianola. Since he started recording in the 1940s, he has released over fifty albums, many of them classics. King – has defined the blues for a worldwide audience.
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