The B.B. King Treasures.(Book Review)

From: Sing Out! | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: von Tersch, Gary | Copyright information

The B.B. King Treasures By B.B. King with Dick Waterman Bulfinch Presss (New York, N.Y.), 2005, ISBN 0821257242, 160 pages, hbk., $40.00

Charles Sawyer, the initial biographer of the King of the Blues, comments near the beginning of his lengthy introduction to this deluxe-packaged, multi-media feast of memories and memorabilia, "the story of B.B. King is also the story of America from the first quarter-mark of the 20th Century into the first decade of the 21st Century." ...

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