Birthday Boy

In time for his 80th birthday, stories on the world's most popular blues performer B.B. King is a national treasure. For more than four decades, he has been the consummate blues performer. His unique guitar playing, powerful vocals, and repertoire of songs have taken him from tiny Itta Bena, Mississippi, to worldwide renown. In this comprehensive volume, the best articles, interviews, and reviews about B.B. King's life and career have been gathered. Learn how he first made his mark as a disc jockey in Memphis hawking Pepticon elixir and taking the moniker of the Beale Street Blues Boy; trace his early tours and recordings; see him be swept up in the blues revival; and finally, enjoy his fame as the greatest living exponent of the blues style. He turns 80 in September so the book is timed to take advantage of the well-deserved attention. • Extensively revised second edition • Includes 18 interviews

The latest installation in our super-popular Riff Notes series, this book is a great collection of 61 must-know rock-era riffs, transcribed note for note. Includes: All Day and All of the Night • And I Love Her • Birthday • Break on Through to the Other Side • Day Tripper • Devil with the Blue Dress • Gloria • Happy Together • Here Comes the Sun • Hey Joe • Hide Away • I Can See for Miles • Last Train to Clarksville • Killing Floor • My Girl • Oh, Pretty Woman • Sunshine of Your Love • Ticket to Ride • Turn! Turn! Turn! • Walk Don't Run • White Room • Wild Thing • You Really Got Me • You Shook Me • and more!