kathleen writes “If you’re on U-S 61 in Tennessee, you’re riding the “B.B. King Highway.”
A legislative resolution was read at King’s namesake club on Beale Street in Memphis and the visitors bureau head joked the markers will become “the most stolen sign” in the city. King will turn 80 on September 16th.
King is scheduled to attend the groundbreaking today for a ten-(m)-million-dollar B.B. King Museum in his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi. A decade in the making, the $10 million museum will be partially located within an abandoned gin mill where King once toiled in his youth. A replica of the WDIA radio studios in Memphis, where King discovered his first real success, will also be housed at the museum.
A major museum feature, the Delta Interpretive Center, will promote a curriculum of education and cultural outreach for at risk youngsters of the mostly poor Delta region.
Read more at B.B.King.com
There is an oil painting of B.B. King by Thea Leopolous at the William Jefferson Clinton library.
The University of Mississippi Blues Archive includes B.B. King’s personal record collection.”
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