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B.B. King Blues Festival
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B.B. King Blues Festival
at the New World Music
Theatre
Most people showed up for a single note.
B.B. King didn't let them down.
The Memphis blues legend rolled into the New World Music Theatre
Thursday, bringing his "B.B. King Blues Festival" - and that note -
with him.
No guitar player - with the exception of fellow blues genius
Jimi Hendrix - is so immediately identifiable the moment he strikes
his instrument. King, holding that gorgeous Gibson he calls
"L...
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