01831cz a2200313n 4500 n 82006577 DLC 20250804231822.4 820226n| azannaabn |a aaa n 82006577 DLC eng rda DLC DLC PPi-MA IEN DLC NN InU 1925-09-16 2015-05-14 edtf ML420.K473 Biography King, B. B. Berclair (Miss.) Las Vegas (Nev.) naf Guitar--Performance Singing Blues (Music) Popular music--Writing and publishing lcsh Guitarists Singers Composers Lyricists lcdgt Blues musicians lcsh eng King, Riley B. King, Blues Boy r Corporate body: B.B. King Blues Band B.B. King live at the Regal [Phonodisc] 1965. B.B. King anthology, c1992: title page (B.B. King) page 77 (nickname B.B. short for Blues Boy) AMG, Aug. 13, 2009 (B.B. King; born Riley B. King on Sep. 16, 1925 in Indianola, Miss.) Grove Music online, Jan. 15, 2014 (B. B. King; Riley B. King; b. Sep. 16, 1925 in Itta Bena, Miss.; American blues singer and guitarist) Enc. of popular music, 4th ed. (B. B. King; born Riley B. King on Sep. 16, 1925 in Indianola, Miss.) B.B. King website, Jan. 15, 2014 (B.B. King; Riley B. King; b. Sep. 16, 1925 on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, near Indianola) The New York times website, viewed May 15, 2015 (B.B. King; b. Riley B. King (the middle initial apparently did not stand for anything) on Sep. 16, 1925 in Berclair, Miss., a hamlet outside the small town of Itta Bena; d. Thursday [May 14, 2015] in Las Vegas, Nev.; B.B. stood for Blues Boy, a name he took with his first taste of fame in the 1940s)