Today would have been B.B. King's 95th birthday. Revisit our 2008 interview with the blues legend
To take you all the way back, the first guitar that you were interested in was played by the reverend in your church, right?What did it sound like when he was playing in church? What kind of playing did he do?
Anyway, I had gotten large enough to know about a company, a mail order company called Sears Roebuck at the time. I think it’s just called Sears today. T-Bone Walker was the first that I heard to do it on electric guitar. But if you pick up some of the early, early Lonnie Johnson, you’ll hear all of that. Just not amplified, but you’ll hear it all. And it’s just as clear as a crystal. His notes were precise. Whatever he hit at, he didn’t miss it, ever. And it came out, oh, boy, that sound was bright and soulful.I wanted to be able to do like my cousin, Bukka White and some of the other great slide guitarists. I have stupid fingers.
And then I started trying to be more concerned, tried to be – How to use the word? More careful about what I did and how I did it. That’s when I started to do that. Prior to that I was just having fun, enjoying myself, trying to make a dollar.Even today, in my opinion Clapton is number one. He’s number one. He’s the best rock & roll guitarist in my opinion of the day. And he plays blues better than most of us.
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