B.B. King by David Mcgee
The Lives in Music series meshes biography with discography. This debut title profiles the legendary King of Blues, B.B. King. An opening essay charts his life from childhood in the Mississippi Delta up to his first studio session. The author then takes an inside look at his distinguished career, album by album, offering a critical appraisal of each recording and a portrait of the making of each album. First-hand interviews with B.B. King, as well as producers, engineers, arrangers, and key musicians, bring these sessions to life and provide readers a context for understanding B.B. King's recordings in light of his career and life events that shaped them. This definitive book also incudes a complete history of every B.B. King session.
McGee, David M.: - David M. McGee is an award-winning writer, journalist, and racing historian. He serves as the senior public address announcer at Bristol Motor Speedway, special events announcer at Bristol Dragway, and historian for both facilities. He has 40-plus years in motorsports and is the author of six previous books on racing history, including four dealing with Bristol; the latest being BRISTOL: Stories of Oval and Drag Racing in Thunder Valley from CarTech Publishing. He is a news reporter for the Bristol Herald Courier newspaper where he helped win the 2018 Scripps Howard Award for Community Journalism and a wide range of national, state, and regional press awards. He is co-founder of the Central Appalachia Racing Archives, a new nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, documenting, the promoting the auto racing heritage of East Tennessee, Southwestern Virginia, and East-Central Kentucky. He is a voting member for the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame and Kentucky Motorsports Hall of Fame, in his native Kentucky. He is a graduate of Morehead State University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780879308438 |
| ISBN 10 | 0879308435 |
| Title | B.B. King |
| Author | David Mcgee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Year published | 2005-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 354 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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