Raja Blues

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BB King

BB King dilahirkan 16 September 1925 di Itta Bena, Mississippi, dekat kawasan Indianola. Masa belianya dimulai dengan mengamen. Terkadang dalam semalam, ia bermain di beberapa tempat. Pada 1974, BB menumpang hidup di Memphis demi mengejar karier musiknya. Memphis merupakan wilayah berpengaruh bagi komunitas pemusik Selatan, yang mendukung penemuan karya musik terluas dari segala gaya Afrika Amerika. Di sana BB (Blues Boy) menetap dengan tantenya, Bukka White, salah seorang pemain blues kenamaan saat itu. Bukka White membantu menyekolahkan BB dalam seni musik blues. Lagu andalan awal BB adalah “Three O’Clock Blues” yang kemudian melambungkan namanya. Sebagai gitaris blues, BB kemudian berhasil mengembangkan gaya tersendiri. Ia terinspirasi Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker dan sejumlah gitaris tenar lain. Semua itu digabungkannya dengan akurasi lekuk gaya vokalnya yang rumit, dan teknik vibrato pada tangan kirinya. Model permainannya itu mampu mempengaruhi ribuan gitaris penerus, dari Eric Clapton dan George Harrison hingga Jeff Beck. BB berhasil menggabungkan corak musik tradisional blues, jazz, swing, pop mainstream yang menjadi titik tolak ke arah sound yang unik. BB King, dengan gitarnya yang dinamainya Lucille, dalam tur Eropa terakhirnya, telah mengucapkan salam perpisahan dengan emosional kepada para penggemarnya di “Montreux Jazz Festival 2006” tahun lalu. Gitaris bergelar King of Blues itu telah ikut festival jazz internasional tersebut dalam lebih dari 20 tahun. Kini, King telah memasuki usia 82 dan menderita diabetes. Ia muncul di atas pentas festival jazz itu bersama artis-artis jazz dari negara tuan rumah pada malam akhir konser mereka di kota tempat berlibur di tepi Danau Geneva, Swiss, tersebut. Para penyanyi Gladys Knight, Barbara Hendrick, Randy Crawford, dan Leela James; gitaris-gitaris John Mclaughlin dan Stanley Clarke; pemain-pemain keyboard Joe Sample dan George Duke; serta peniup saksofon David Sanborn; menyampaikan hormat mereka kepada sang King of Blues. "Mestinya saya menyampaikan salam perpisahan setiap malam," ucap King, yang menyanyi dan bermain gitar sambil duduk, dalam penampilannya selama dua setengah jam hingga dini itu. "Saya akan menangis lagi, periode ini tak ubahnya lapisan gula pada kue saya, tidak mungkin dilepas dengan cara yang lebih baik lagi dari sekarang," tuturnya penuh emosi.

  • 1965 Live at the Regal (live)
  • 1968 Lucille
  • 1969 Live And Well, Completely Well
  • 1970 Indianola Mississippi Seeds
  • 1971 Live in Cook County Jail, B.B. King in London
  • 1972 Guess Who
  • 1975 Together For The First Time (With Bland & Bobby 'Blue')
  • 1975 Lucille Talks Back
  • 1976 Bobby Bland and B.B. King Together Again...Live
  • 1978 Midnight Believer
  • 1979 Take It Home
  • 1980 Live "Now Appearing" at Ole Miss
  • 1981 There Must Be a Better World Somewhere
  • 1982 Love Me Tender
  • 1983 Why I Sing the Blues
  • 1990 B.B. King and Sons Live (live)
  • 1991 Live at San Quentin, Live at the Apollo" (live), There is Always One More Time, Bacon Double Cheeseburger
  • 1992 King of the Blues
  • 1995 Lucille & Friends
  • 1997 Deuces Wild
  • 1997 Best of King
  • 1998 Blues On The Bayou
  • 1999 Live In Japan, Let the Good Times Roll
  • 2000 Riding with the King, Makin' Love Is Good For You
  • 2003 Reflections
  • 2005 The Ultimate Collection, B.B. King & Friends: 80
  • 2007 The Best of the Early Years

Lucille lyrics

The sound that you're listening to is from my guitar that's named "Lucille"
I'm very crazy about Lucille
Lucille took me from the planatation
Oh and you might say brought me fame
I don't think I can just talk enough about Lucille
sometimes when I'm blue it's seems like Lucille trying to help me, calling my name
I used to sing spirituals when I thought that this was the thing i wanted to do
But somehow or another, when I went in the Army
I picked up on Lucille and started sing the blues
Well, now when I'm paying my dues
Maybe you don't know what I mean when I say paying my dues
I mean when things are bad with me
I can always, I can always you know, like, depend on Lucille

Sorta hard to talk to you myself
I guess I'll let Lucille say all of a few words and then...

You know, I doubt if you can feel it like I do
But when I things about the things that I've gone through,
Like, well, for instance, if I have a girlfriend and she's misusing me
And I go home at night, and maybe I'm lonely, well, not maybe, I am lonely,
I pick up Lucille and then ping out those funny sounds that sound good to me, you know
Sometimes I get to play where I can't even say nothin'
Lookout

Sometimes I think it's cryin'

You know if I can sing pop tunes like Frank Sinatra or Sammy Davis Jr.
I don't think I still could do it
Because Lucille don't wanna play nothin but the blues
And I think I'm, I think I'm pretty glad about that
'Cause don't nobody sing to me like Lucille
Sing Lucille

Well, I'll put it like this
Take it easy, Lucille
I like the way Sammy sings and I like the way Frank sings
But I can get a little Frank, Sammy, a little Ray Charles,
In fact all the people with soul in this...

A little Mahalia Jackson in there

One more Lucille

[Take it easy now....ahhhh]

You know I gotten a lot of you months ago
Alot of you wanna know why I call the guitar "Lucille"
Lucille has practically saved my life two, three times
No kidding, really has
I remember once I was in an automobile accident
And when the car stopped turning over, it fell over on Lucille
And it held it up off of me, really, it held it up off of me
So that's one time it's saved my life

The way, the way, I, uh, I came by the name of Lucille
I was over in Twist, Arkansas
I know you never heard of that, but it happened
And one night, the guys started a ball over there, started brawling, you know what I mean
And the guy that was mad with this old lady
When she fell over this gas tank that was burning for heat, the gas ran all over the floor
And when the gas ran all over the floor
The building caught on fire and almost burned me up trying to save Lucille
Uh, oh, I imagine you're still wondering why I call it "Lucille"
The lady that started the brawl that night was named Lucille
And that's been Lucille ever since to me

One more now Lucille

Sounds pretty good
Can I do one more?

I got Lucille

Sounds really good
I think I'll try one more
All right




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