B.B. King: Mississippi Homecoming
Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 30 November 1989
RILEY B. KING, a son of the Mississippi Delta and by everyone's admission but his own the King of the Blues, stands by a two-lane country road. He looks across the cotton fields he used to work, toward the spot where his tin-roof frame house once stood.
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