KING OF THE BLUES: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King

Riley "Blues Boy" King was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from the exhausting toil in the fields. de Vise presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Photos, some in color.