Today I will talk a little about BB King one of the greatest blues guitarists in history.Riley King, better known as B. B. King, had a difficult childhood, he was born on a cotton plantation and the nine years he lived alone and picked cotton, which earned him 35 cents a day.He is self-taught and started playing and exchanged for one day decided to go to Memphis, Tennessee (where the great Southern musicians were) only with his guitar and $ 2.50, and one night he saw T-bone walker stormy monday interpreting'''' "One Saturday night I heard an electric guitar that was not playing Negro spirituals. It was T-Bone playing" Stormy Monday "and was the most beautiful sound I ever heard in my life." recalls B. B. King, "was what really made me want to play blues."
His first opportunity was when he started working in radio show Sonny Boy Williamson and from there grew. The guitars of B.B King:
* Began using a Fender Telecaster
* She started using a Gibson ES-335 model was replaced by B. B. Lucille King, a model based on the ES-345.
* One of the characteristics of King's call to the name of his guitar "Lucille" - a tradition that dates from the 1950s.
* On December 19, 1997, Lucille presented to Pope John Paul II at a concert in the Vatican.
* On November 5, 2000, he donated an autographed copy of Lucille for the National Museum of Music, United States of America.
BB King is probably the king of the blues and is in 3rd place in the ranking of the 100 greatest guitarists in history, the magazine Rolling Stone.
''What I find most brilliant at BB King is the sincerity of his soul that goes to the fretboard. Its not just bend with vibrato technique, but their sincerity and purity as a human being''(Celso Blues Boy-blues guitarist)
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