10 legendary acts that would give BB King Nick – Rolling Stone

In BB King Discovered upsetting rock mumusics a deep grass emotional swing, the other great influence of the era, Chuck Berry, was missing. With his admirable Arbeitsgoral, his brisk clothes and his positively attitude, King converted the roughest countries of the blues in optimistic urbanity.

BB King was both a great entertainer and a real person. Bechiden and with a refreshing sense of humor. Already froted by Paul Butterfield and Eric Clapton Funded, found King after the verke Live on the shelf In 1964 the audience he had greener.

He gave the blues of too practicable way to make a living on stage. Here are ten acts – rock, blues and daring – die of his example and continued to fulfill. (See also The 10 essential songs of the king And -eser Defititisive profile from 1998, On the bus with BB king.))

The Jimi Hendrix experience

Jimi Hendrix BB King’s urban blues sucked up as an insatiable musical swam. Just like a number of more aggressive stylists. Hendrix covered “Every day I have the blues” as a member of the rock kings. His career. And known to turn up the bass on his amplifier to imitate king, which he asked about tips on the gymnastics tour for tips.

Little Richard, with whom Hendrix played for several months, criticized Hendrix SOAG for having too much Like King Klinge. With his own trio, Hendrix BBS Sound, introduced King’s “Rock Me Baby”. He then died in the completely different wild direction. But “Hey Joe”, the hit single of the trio Are you experienced Is Ohnes King’s inspiration unimaginable for single strings. And Hendrix ‘in unison played guitar and vocal work in “Voodoo Chile” is directly Aus-King’s game book.

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BB King, Schwieb Eric Clapton in his autobiography, is “anyway the most important artist who has ever brought about blues”. The man who wasted the Eletrische Blues into the masses, King’s vocabulary was suitable for his time with the Yardbirds and John Mayalls Bluesbreakers. Mayall is particularly involved in its similarity.

As a member of Cream, Clapton Jack Bruce over the lion’s share of the songwriting and instead brings into the trio a handful of delicious blues cover versions. Clapton licked kings. And gave a loud, flowing psychedelic touch on his Marshall amplifiers. His soulful sample in the blind fist of fitting never approached that of King, with whom in 1967 in New York Cafe au the two blues muscles Alebetlicht Schlieden. Ride with the king Related.

Santana

The Nick Nick once ten -year -old Carlos Santana was impossible to influence BB King when he heard him on the radio in Tijuana. “I thought: ‘Man, that’s it. That is the kind of music that I will do when I’m big, ‘”he recalls. And when he saw king for the first time after his move to San Francisco in Bill Graham’s Fillmore West, get one “revelation”.

When King put on the first tone this evening, says Santana: ‘War as if Sichsterners had opened up completely different world. I thought: Oh, that’s how he did. And comes out with this, sound. “Carlos Santana Blues Band interpreted BB-King songs in Latin skirt style in 1967. Santana Schreitil Demalbum Magic binder Of the Hungarian jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó to have helped him to escape King’s spell. Never burn quite.

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

Mike Bloomfield was one of the first instrumental superstar of rock, whose blues-guitar style was largely taken over by BB King. “(W) If I am a blues guitar right Guts Play-Tann I only play Nick for fun. But I’m really deepened in something. Then BB is very king, ”he said.

Bloomfield earned his spores in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and wrote rock face as the guitarist who “electrified” Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. (“I don’t want anything from the BB-King shit, man,” Dylan said to him in recordings Highway 61 revisited.) Bloomfield moved to San Francisco and founded the short -lived band Electric Flag in 1967. When Bloomfield accumulated his guitar a few years later and plunged into the abyss of heroin, it was BB who got him out and hides: “You can’t allow that you were, said Zurllfall.

The Allman Brothers band

BB King was part of the program at the first rock show, the teenagers duane and Gregg Allman from Florida ever. “Little brother,” said Duane to Gregg, “we have to pull that in”. In the event of recordings as a Hour Glass in the Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals in 1969, Gregg and Duane “Sweet Little Angel”, “It is my own fault” and “How blue you can get them” from Kings 1964 album Live on the shelf To the “BB King Medley”. Duan unantaters Kings Kings tumps and hold anger.

The influence of shelf On the long -term double concerts of the Allman Brothers band. Live on the shelf, Says Gregg Allman in A way out“Is a single long song, a huge medley. (King) never stopped. He just started. “Plates like shelfSo Allman, “Haven me to do everything so meticulously – to pay attention to the arrangements, to the order of the songs.”

Johnny Winter

For fiery Johnny Winter War BB König nothing less than a “blues-Heilier”. The first album that bought winter, war kings published in 1957 Sing the blues. Three years later, he attached great importance to jaming with his idol in the Raven Club in his home town of Beaumont, Texas.

Johnny, his brother Edgar and a few free tounds were the only white in the club, so King, who had steady problems -assumed that internal revenue service. Winters forced his union ID to give up before he had it played along.

“We see see later,” said King after Deses Set. Winter’s great derbruch came in 1968 when he Kings, it was my own fault ‘During a “Subter” in the Fillmore East with Al Cooper and Mike Bloomfield. A few days later, Winter’s reports received the biggest advance in the shifts of the music records of Columbia.

Fleetwood Mac

In 1966 the BB-King fan Peter Green John Mayall’s bluesbreaker joined the King fan Eric Clapton. The following year, Green and the Rhythm Guepre of the Bluesbreaker left – Mick Fleetwood and John McVie – The band and founded Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac. A grumbling strongly characterized by the blues, which was to become a pop superstar in 1970.

In Fleetwood Mac, Green showed with instrumental was “Albatross” and blues coversions, especially an unscraminated version of King’s “I have a ghost to give up”, an excellent form. King, who was on tour with Fleetwood Mac for once of the week, later said about green: “He hats off the sweetestone I have ever heard. War the only one who meated me off the cold welding broke. “

ZZ top

The guitar hero of the Arena Rock Billy Gibbons War from BB King that he named his band after him. So to speak. When Gibbons Bratzed the Wäyn of his apartment in Houston in 1969, saw -er -poster with king and zz hill. He liked the tea with ZZ and King, but not so much together. But then he wondered: is a king nick dying? King also inspired Gibbons to switch to thin “Slinky Seven” strings when the older guitarist, as he said, accidentally took a guitar in my hand, which I had opened with a blatant, heavy wire in the corner, and asked: “Why are you so hard? “

When King 2011 the sixth STZ on the lists of the 100 largest guitarists in the Rab Documented, wrote Gibbons: “Inserted diest, invented on the point -phrase, with the Belo Notor. Then to other string jump. And the too grade slides. I can do that in my sleep. And then there is this two-or three-way number, with the last. Both characters zone an emer in motion. “

Stevie and Jimmie Ray Vaughan

Jimmie Vaughans relatively straightforward, but emotional real guitar style, who rifles from his days with fabulous Thunderbirds to the later solo career, was greatly in the flusery of BB Kings Warz. “When I had some money for the first time,” said Jimmie, “I went to the press shop. I bought all albums from BB King. “Jimmie and Albert King had the greatest musical influence on his younger brother Stevie Ray Vaughan, whose swinging virtuosity should cause a further American blues turn.

Stevie Ray’s death in a lifting slaar crash in 1990 “Devastated” BB King, who said he had sensed the tragedy “as if I spent part of myself”. He added: “The world hat is to be the man, the best war, the greatest guitarist in the layer of the blues.”

Robert Cray

In the 80s and 90s, Robert Cray was widely as BB King’s heir to the throne in blues. His hit album Strong persuasiveness From 1986 he made him known as a gentle but cheeky singer, the believer’s war. And it sparing, but elegant guitar play King’s sophisticated seni -style.

For the most part, Cray’s sheetness was based on its openness. A property, he dies with king. He naturally alludes König both as a musician and as a person. “BB King is a gentleman, he speaks in a elegant way,” says Cray, who noticed that both other gain is that king was the nicest man on the planet “. Cray may be too pop for some blues fans. But BB King is by no means a stranger to the charts.