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King, King of the Blues Mississippi History Now » » B.B. King, King of the Blues King’s first break came when he landed a spot on radio station WDIA in Memphis. Circa 1948 photograph: Michael Ochs Archives. Drivers Ms 7336 Ver 1.0 Motherboard. com. Used by permission. King cut several records for Sam Phillips’s studio for Modern Records on the RPM label. Circa 1952 photograph: Michael Ochs Archives.com. Used by permission.

King and and his guitar Lucille in Jackson, Mississippi. 1984 photograph: Eyd Kazery.

Used by permission. King at 2005 groundbreaking ceremony for the B.B. King Museum in Indianola, Mississippi. Soul Eater Medusa No Inbou English Patch Rom.

Seated left is Floyd Lieberman of Lieberman Management LLC, King’s long-time manager. Photograph by Christine Wilson. Courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History. King during ceremonial breaking of the ground for the B.B. King Museum in Indianola on June 10, 2005.

Shown left to right are: Mike Moore, cochairman of the museum steering committee and former state attorney general; King; Floyd Lieberman, Lieberman Management LLC; and Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives William J. Photograph by Christine Wilson.

Courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History. King, King of the Blues By Christine Wilson In the late 1940s in Indianola, Mississippi, a young man named Riley King was singing and playing guitar with his friends in a group called the “Famous St. John’s Gospel Singers.” They played in churches around the Delta and even went to the stations in Greenwood and Greenville and sang on the radio – they were that good. At night Riley King changed hats and played blues on Indianola street corners for tips. He said later that when he played gospel music he got a pat on the head, but when he played the blues he got a dime. He didn’t have much money, and dimes were worth a lot more in the 1940s in Indianola than they are now. (He made only $15 driving a farm tractor all day.) In 1946 King tried to convince the Singers to leave Indianola and seek their fortune together as a professional group.

When they refused, he packed his bags and took off for the music town of Memphis, Tennessee, to live with his cousin, bluesman Bukka White. Musicians gravitated to Memphis from small towns all around.

Beale Street – “the Home of the Blues” – was there, and Sam Phillips, of later Sun Records fame, had just arrived in 1945 and set up a recording studio. Radio station WDIA King immediately began playing around town, but his luck wasn’t running right, and later that year he went back to Indianola to his tractor job to make some money. After two years at home he was ready to try again and headed back to Memphis.