00:00Well, I'm just a blues singer, tractor driver, truck driver, I was a disc jockey for a while.
00:09Everybody want to know why I sing the blues.
00:20Survival is a word. This is a story.
00:27In 1925, the cries of a newborn baby rang out from a sharecropper's cabin over the cotton fields of the
00:35Mississippi Delta.
00:36A boy was born that day that was going to make a difference. His name, Riley B. King.
00:50If you were not black, then you were Negroes or niggas.
00:53Well, I had a slogan, if a mule die, buy another one.
00:58Kill a nigger, hire another one. And that's the way I was brought up.
01:05Many people tend to slow down in their 60s. Not B.B. King.
01:11His collaboration with a young band from Ireland was about to propel B.B. to a whole new audience.
01:18B.B. King's not just great. He's like, great. He's a one of a kind.
01:26I mean, he's just like, you know, unbelievable.
01:37You can take one note and make it so sexy.
01:41One note, you know, is all it takes.
01:43The note with the vibrato.
01:45One note.
01:46One note.
01:46One note.
01:47I can hear B.B. King with the sound off on the TV just by looking at his face.
02:01What do you want to do with your music and with your singing?
02:04I'd like the whole world to be able to hear B.B. King sing and play the blues.
02:17B.B. King, the life of Riley.
02:21One note.
02:24That's great.
02:24Grazie.
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