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B.B. King has been playing the blues with rare style for almost 50
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Tri-State Defender
10-25-1995
B.B. King has been playing the blues with rare style for almost 50. years: 'Happy Birthday Blues'
By David Earl Jackson
B. B. King's 70th Birthday Bash on Friday, October 27 at the Orpheum Theater is going to be one hell of a blues, gospel and pop music party, thrown in honor of an African-American blues Horatio Alger, who left Mississippi in 1947 and came to Memphis, went from here in '52 traveling the chitin' circuit, an...
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