“But later on I went into town, to Indianola, Mississippi, and listened to juke boxes, and I started to dig jazz when I came to hear it. So you didn’t have a chance to listen unless you were a house boy or something. There, in Mississippi, where I grew up there weren’t many radios - only the boss had a radio at that time, and not all of them. When I was young it didn’t really get to me. It’s something like radar: You send out a beam, and it hits and comes back with more energy.” On Jazz And usually the reaction comes back double-force and pulls me out of it, because the people can help you entertain. “Usually when I’m up there onstage,” King explains, “I try and do like an electric eel and throw my little shock through the whole audience. He teases them, tickles them, and then jolts them with the lyrics he sings and the notes he plays. King works audiences the same way he works the guitar he calls Lucille. The Blues are a mystery, and mysteries are never as simple as they look!ī.B. But the Blues aren’t a science, the Blues can’t be broken down like mathematics. “The Blues are a simple music and I’m a simple man. But what about Barney Kessel and Les Paul? There are so many of them. I was crazy about Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. I’d say Robert Johnson, then Blind Lemon Jefferson. BB KING, playing the guitar in the recording studio, smoking (Photo by Estate Of Keith Morris/Redferns) Who was the biggest influence on your own blues playing?
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