It is a sad day in the music community as well as the world after losing B.B.King. We all will miss him but his music and influence will live on. I like to think that I have a different perspective on the matter since I did grow up in Memphis Tn. In high school we would go to Beale Street every Friday night to hang out and listen to the music coming out of almost every joint on the street.

This was before he opened his world famous restaurant. As I got older I would go with my father to see him and other blues greats performing on Beale Street. It was ,as I have come to realize some of the best times of my life.

I never get tired of telling my B.B.King story so here it is. It was back in the early 1990's after the club had opened and my best friend in high school was working there and had invited me down to have drink.

That in itself was cool as h*ll to me back then. anyway, when I got there sat down had a few (well maybe more than that) drinks and was listening to the local guy that was there playing on a week night when all of a sudden B.B. King walks out on the stage and asks if we would mind if he sat in with the guy playing.

Of course that was not a problem it was a decent crowd for a week night but, if you didn't show up that night you missed one of the best impromtu blues shows I had ever seen.And that memory still gives me goose bumps when I think about getting to see the king of blues just jamming with some guy that was playing that night.

I and the rest of the world will miss you Riley B.King. R.I.P.

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