∙ King earned the nickname Beale Street Blues Boy-or B.B. ∙ A local church leader taught him how to play his first chord progression on a Silvertone guitar that King dreamed of owning one day. She told him, “Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul.” King learned about the blues from his great-grandmother, who had been enslaved.
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