Sunday, April 5, 2009

14. B.B. King: Sweet Sixteen

Artist: B.B. King
Title: Sweet Sixteen
Album: Electric B.B. King - His Best
Year Released: 1968
Record Label: MCA
Catalog #: 11767








B.B. King was an electric blues player that started in Memphis, Tennessee. His blues songs often take a jazzy direction. He often incorporates horn sections in his songs, and favors the major pentatonic scale while still using the minor sextatonic blues scale to give his playing a more jazzy feel.

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