Blues All Around Me

A treasure trove of information...told with real feeling. --<em>Washington Post Book World</em><br /><br />Charming...honest...transcendent.... It reads like a warm and lengthy conversation with a close friend. --<em>Billboard</em><br /><br />The undisputed king of the blues B.B. King puts his life into words in a story that spans tragedy triumph and everything in between--and he tells it just how he plays it straight from the heart. A true-to-life tale of overcoming monumental odds to succeed as an artist in an often unfriendly world <em>Blues All Around Me</em> is also the story of how blues music changed during its migration from the Mississippi Delta to urban areas such as Chicago. <em>Rolling Stone </em>calls B.B.'s memoir a very American success story [told] with the lyricism and leisurely pace of a born storyteller.<br />