Working in Memphis in the late 1940s, this Mississippi musician not only played and sang in the clubs, but worked at radio station WDIA as a disc jockey. He went by the on-air-name of “Beale Street Blues Boy.” We know him as B.B. King.
Excerpted by permission of The Nautilus Publishing Company from 501 Little-Known Facts, Obscure Trivia, World Records & Historical Minutia from the State of Mississippi
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