{"id":17977,"date":"2015-05-15T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=17977"},"modified":"2015-05-15T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T12:00:27","slug":"king-of-blues-bb-king-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/king-of-blues-bb-king-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"King of Blues, BB King Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B.B. King, the most recognized blues musician of the modern era, who defined the genre for nearly seven decades and inspired countless artists with his unique style of electric guitar play \u2013 earning him the nickname the \u201cKing of Blues\u201d \u2013 died Thursday. He was 89.<\/p>\n<p>King died in his sleep at 9:40 p.m. Thursday at his Las Vegas home, his attorney, Brent Bryson, told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>King <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbking.com\/2015\/05\/01\/a-message-from-b-b-2\/\">announced<\/a> on May 1 that he entered home hospice care at his Las Vegas residence, ending his legacy as a relentless touring artist. He performed at hundreds of shows a year well into his older age, always with his trademark Gibson guitar nicknamed \u201cLucille.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King, an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, won 15 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammy.com\/photos\/bb-king-3\">Grammy<\/a> awards over his lifetime \u2013 more than any other blues musician. His \u201cstring-bending and vibrato\u201d technique on the guitar earned him spots on several lists of the instrument\u2019s greatest players of all time.<\/p>\n<p>King was born Riley B. King in 1925 and as a boy worked on a sharecropping plantation in Itta Benna, Mississippi. \u201cHe toiled in cotton and corn fields, milked 20 cows a day (ten in the morning, ten at night) on Flake Cartledge\u2019s farm. After those morning milkings, he walked some three miles to the one-room schoolhouse that was home to kindergarten through grade 12,\u201d David McGee <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=uuZiCElcWTQC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=B.B.%20King&amp;pg=PA8#v=onepage&amp;q=cotton&amp;f=false\">wrote<\/a> in the biography <i>B. B. King: There Is Always One More Time<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up, King had several experiences with violence and racism. At one point, he said in a 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/tavissmiley\/interviews\/b-b-king\/\">interview<\/a>, he saw a young man \u201cbeing drug up the streets over to the courthouse\u201d in Lexington, Mississippi, where the man was lynched.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Buzz Feed<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.B. King, the most recognized blues musician of the modern era, who defined the genre for nearly seven decades and inspired countless artists with his unique style of electric guitar play \u2013 earning him the nickname the \u201cKing of Blues\u201d \u2013 died Thursday. He was 89. King died in his sleep at 9:40 p.m. Thursday at his Las Vegas home, his attorney, Brent Bryson, told The Associated Press. King announced on May 1 that he entered home hospice care at his Las Vegas residence, ending his legacy as a relentless touring artist. He performed at hundreds of shows a year well into his older age, always with his trademark Gibson guitar nicknamed \u201cLucille.\u201d King, an inductee to the Rock and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":17979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}