For You Own Good

The All Music Guide praises B.B. King in no uncertain terms as 'the single most important electric guitarist of the last half century.' This outstanding new book in our Guitar Recorded Versions series provides note-for-note transcriptions with tab for 35 hits from this living legend from 1950 to 2000, including: Ask Me No Questions • B.B. Blues • Bad Luck Soul • Chains and Things • Five Long Years • I Want You So Bad • King of Guitar • Lucille • Paying the Cost to Be the Boss • Riding with the King • Sweet Sixteen • The Thrill Is Gone • Watch Yourself • and more.

32 classics from his Kent recordings, including: Bad Breaks • Bad Luck Soul • Blue Shadows • The Blues Has Got to Me • Blues Stay Away • Going Down Slow • Got 'Em Bad • I Had a Woman • It's a Mean World • King of Guitar • Rock Me Baby • Worried Life Blues • You Don't Know • and more.

This amazing collection contains note-for-note transcriptions of 18 supercharged classics by this blues-influenced legend. Includes: Ball and Chain • Cry Baby • I Need a Man to Love • Kozmic Blues • Maybe • Me and Bobby McGee • Mercedes Benz • One Good Man • Piece of My Heart • Summertime • To Love Somebody • What Good Can Drinkin' Do? • more. Features photos and a foreword by Laura Joplin, Janis' sister.