Happy Birthday B.B. King ! ! !

Now thats a Birthday worth celebrating. How old now? Over 80 something isn't he? He really is the Last Great Bluesman left. I saw him when I was 15 (35 years back) and it is one of my most memorable concerts even to this day. I do not know what number Lucille he is on to today but I am sure it sounds great. Blues on The Bayou were he redid his old ones was my last real big fav and what would that U2 album have been like without Love Comes To Town

How old's he now? 150??

Anyway, happy B-Day!

Someone once told me BB cannot sing and play at the same time.  Anyone know if this is true?

It's getting on for 30 years since I first saw him, and he wasn't exactly a youngster back then. He played and sang like an angel in a spectacularly awful night club where the light shades were shaped like condoms and the bouncers appeared to have been recruited from 'Gorillas in the Mist', which made for both an object lesson in professionalism and a damned fine blues concert. Long may he run!

Happy B. B. birthday.

James wrote: Matthew T wrote: He doesn't sing in the lead breaks I noticed but seemed to be doing alright with the rest, what I can remember but the memories seem to be mainly of Lucille with the Blues Pedal on. Guitar Solos. I remember he sang Got some Outside help I don't Need. The concert was not a sell out. LA Midnight was the current album he had out at the time. He was the first real blues concert I saw and I have loved him since. I only buy his albums these days where there are no guests. Like Willie Nelson they are best own their own doing what they do best straight up blues or country. Oh I don't know. That album he did with Eric Clapton was amazing. He outshone Clapton too.

  I bought the Pinetop and Hubert Sumlin album that came out a while back and it looked really promising but alas 3 star job. It was good but it was just run of the mill blues. I love blues live these days but I don't seem to play them a lot these days at home. Now and again I get the bug play one or two albums and move on to something else. Did you get that Buddy Guy album ,Sweet Tea that came out a while back now. I quite enjoyed that one. I think the problem for me with blues these days is I have heard quite a bit and more often than not you get the same old songs recycled. When I do get the urge I normally go for the Country stuff. Even though it is through a wall of static I like Charlie Patton,Blind Willie Johnson is great too. Dark was the Night and Cold was the Ground I was thinking of using for a ring tone when my wife calls I love her but when that mobile rings