Blog posts
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Sep 15 2008, 02:58 PMDedication Mondays for the King of BluesIn honor of the Museum opening this weekend, the BB King online team would like to introduce Dedication Monday...
Every Monday, we will be dedicating a new track from "One Kind Favor" to a fan and in turn ask that the fans dedicate that track to all of their friends...
This week the track is "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" ...
Visit B.B. King's Facebook page
http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/BB-King/43780515976
and click dedicate on the featured song at the top of the page.
Dedicate to all of your friends and then leave a message on BB King's page saying that you have done so. One person will be randomly chosen and awarded a prize in next week's Dedication Monday...
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Sep 08 2008, 10:54 AMBB King in LA TimesBB King discusses the new album and his upcoming September Museum Opening on September 13th...
Check it out now...
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-king8-2008sep08,0,5160256.story
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Sep 04 2008, 04:55 PMNew Interview Video: BB King on One Kind FavorListen and Watch as BB discusses his inspiration for the new album...
As always share with your friends and spread the gospel of the blues king...
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Sep 03 2008, 09:51 AMLimited "One Kind Favor" Full Album StreamFor a limited time only, join BB King on Imeem for an unlimited full album stream of "One Kind Favor".
The Hurst Review says "It swings, it stings, it shoots from the hip and hits right in the gut– a towering achievement from a true master, one who’s able to live with one foot in the past but create music that’s totally of the present".
If you still haven't heard, listen now...
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Aug 26 2008, 05:25 PMOne Kind Favor Available Now
(4 stars) “This isn’t just B.B. King’s best album in years, it’s one of the strongest studio sets of his career. T Bone Burnett helped bring Robert Plant and John Mellencamp into their twilight years with dignity. Those projects were mere dress rehearsals for this one.” - Rolling Stone
"The ache, the anger, the elegance and the edge of Mr. King's blues are undiminished and authentic." - New York Times
The wait is over, "One Kind" Favor is Available Now with a deluxe digital edition on Amazon and Itunes that features 3 bonus tracks...
Pay tribute to the King...
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Aug 14 2008, 11:05 AMJoin BB King on Facebook
Come join BB King on Facebook for detailed updates as we countdown to the August 26th release of "One Kind Favor". And coming soon, exclusive video from the recording sessions...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/BB-King/43780515976
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Aug 05 2008, 04:23 PMBB King's "One Kind Favor" Aug. 26th, 2008
The King of the Blues is set to release a new album featuring covers of old blues songs from B.B. King’s early influences. With production by T Bone Burnett (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Roy Orbison, Elvis Costello) the set revisits the music that influenced B.B. in the 1950s, the beginning of King’s extraordinary professional journey that, literally, changed the texture of modern blues playing. One Kind Favor will be released on Geffen Records August 26th.
Recorded at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles, CA One Kind Favor is meant to sound like an album recorded in the 50s. To get this sound Burnett and King replicated the kind of blues band King had back in the day bringing in some of the greats – Dr. John on piano, Nathan East on stand up acoustic bass and Jim Keltner on drums, to name a few. Studio conditions of the time were reproduced. The result is a vintage sounding album filled with the songs that influenced King in his early days as an artist.
The full track listing for One Kind Favor, along with the name of the artist who originally recorded the track, is:” See That My Grave Is Kept Clean” (Lemon Jefferson), “I Get So Weary” (T-Bone Walker), “Get These Blues Off Me” (Lee Vida Walker), “How Many More Years” (Chester Burnett), “Waiting For Your Call” (Oscar Lollie), “My Love Is Down” (Lonnie Johnson), “The World Is Gone Wrong” ( Walter Vinson, also known as Walter Jacobs, and Lonnie Chatmon, core members of the Mississippi Sheiks), “Blues Before Sunrise” (John Lee Hooker), “Midnight Blues” (John Willie “Shifty” Henry), “Backwater Blues” (Big Bill Broonzy), “Sitting On Top Of The World” (Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon) and “Tomorrow Night” (Lonnie Johnson).
In other B.B. news, on September 13th King– one of the few musicians in the world to be so honored – will preside at the opening of the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in his hometown of Indianola, MS. Also in September B.B. King will begin hosting his own weekly radio show on XM Radio on their newly relaunched blues channel “BB Kings Bluesville” (XM 74).
For more than 60 years, Riley B. King - better known as B.B. King - has defined the blues for a worldwide audience. Since he started recording in the 1940s, he has released over 50 albums, many of them classics, won 14 Grammy® Awards, been inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of the Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award and the NARM (National Association of Recording Merchandisers) Chairman’s Award, among many other awards. In a special ceremony at the Library of Congress, Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington presented B.B. with a “Living Legend” medal in honor of his achievements as a musician and ambassador for the blues. After 10,000 concerts, B.B. King continues to bring his music to audiences around the globe spending the better part of each year on the road with his beloved guitar, “Lucille.”
