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B.B. King

For my Black History Month Music project, I did research on B.B. King. I chose this musician because my dog’s name is B.B. AND I like his music.

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Riley B. King started recording in the 1940s.

He was born on September 16, 1925 in Mississippi, he died on May 15th, 2015.

He played Blues. Blues is like blue and blue means sad so blues is a sad song like you lost your job or you lost a pet. He used a guitar, named all his guitars Lucille. He also uses his voice.

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He taught himself how to play guitar. He went to Memphis Tennessee and did his first recording in 1949.

In 1948 he got a job at a radio station.

He was originally called Beale Street Blues Boy and it was too long so they shortened it to B.B. King.

The type of music he played earned him the title “King of the Blues.”

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He played with Barack Obama in the White House. Some of his most popular songs are, Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Let the Good Times Roll, and Three O’Clock Blues.

He performed over 300 places in a year for over 30 years in a row! He was so good at blues that he got entered into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1984, in 1987 he got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and he got a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 1987.

I noticed that he got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and he got a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 1987.

THE SAME YEAR!!!

B.B. King must have worked hard to get 2 awards in the same year

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He named his guitar Lucille because when he was playing in a club it got set on fire because two men were fighting over a women named Lucille so soon after the fire he figured out that the men were fighting over a woman named Lucille so he named his guitar Lucille to remind him to never ever fight over a woman or walk into a building set on fire.
He bought his guitar at the age of 12 and it only cost 15 US dollars
All his guitars were made by Gibsons

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This song is about having good times and keeping the good times going.�

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He did not write this song. Louis Jordan did.

This song is about chickens in a barn.