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A recent vintage B.B. King live concert, performed at the Royal Albert Hall in 2011. He came ready to play and they came ready to listen. This is a high-def 1080P video with very good sound. In 2011, B.B. King was 85 years old. What will you be doing when you are 85? This is …
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The One Special Night concert (1985) united B.B. King and James Brown in a special by-invitation-only concert in New York. This concert united the Godfather of Soul with the King of the Blues for a once-in-a-lifetime evening. This is the fifth show in the Weekend Concert Series tribute to B.B. King. The Fine Print: …
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Gravity Limited provided this concert video, of a young B.B. King playing Live in Africa in 1974. The Fine Print. Embed via YouTube(thanks, guys) from a Gravity Limited Production. All rights owned by their respective rights holders. Special thanks to Gravity Limited for making this concert available.
A blended concert video featuring B.B. King and the B.B. King band at B.B.’s blues clubs in Nashville and Dallas, in October 2006. Terrific video and, of course, even better music. The Fine Print. Embed made possible via YouTube (thanks, guys). All rights owned by respective artist. This video through Geffen Records, A …
A blended concert video featuring B.B. King and the B.B. King band at B.B.’s blues clubs in Nashville and Dallas, in October 2006. Terrific video and, of course, even better music. The Fine Print. Embed made possible via YouTube (thanks, guys). All rights owned by respective artist. This video through Geffen Records, A …
Eric Clapton has a long-standing music and personal relationship with B.B. King. In 2010, B.B. came to play at Clapton’s charity concert, the Crossroads Music Festival. This cut is B.B.and Clapton doing the “Thrill is Gone“. The Fine Print. Embed courtesy of YouTube. Originally posted to YouTube by Jovan Stojanovic. All rights reserved by respective …
Eric Clapton has a long-standing music and personal relationship with B.B. King. In 2010, B.B. came to play at Clapton’s charity concert, the Crossroads Music Festival. This cut is B.B.and Clapton doing the “Thrill is Gone“. The Fine Print. Embed courtesy of YouTube. Originally posted to YouTube by Jovan Stojanovic. All rights reserved by respective …
B.B. King passed away this week at age 89. The very best way to honor B.B. King is to appreciate–again or for the first time–his special genius in making music. This weekend, the Concert Series focuses on the musical performances of B.B. King. Up first, a series of videos of B.B. at the Montreaux Jazz Fesitval, …
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Editor’s Note: We’ve interrupted the planned multi-day run of Gay Talese’s seminal profile of Frank Sinatra to pay tribute to another music giant who passed today. The Sinatra profile will be re-posted at a later date…or..you can just scroll down from this post to find it. Transitions: Riley B. King, known all over the world …
The Hunt for New Music. Bruno Mars is a living testimony to what happens when you just don’t quit. He was born into a family of musicians and his natural talent for music was obvious at a very early age. But–he struggled. A deal with Motown didn’t work out . A management deal with Will. i. …
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