| music — B. B. King
Spinning Blues Into Gold, the Rough Way
B. B. King is tired. The last of the great bluesmen, Mr. King sits slumped in a chair in a Manhattan hotel room. It is early afternoon, and Mr. King, sipping water, is resting before a sold-out appearance at the club named for him on 42nd Street.
A big man encased in a silk Hawaiian-style shirt, Mr. King, at 77, travels relentlessly around the country, as consumed with performing and recording as he was 30 years ago. "If I don't keep doing it, keep going, they'll forget me," he says.
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