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Tempo: B.B. King (part 2)

Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, December 1967

ANYTHING YOU want to sell nowadays, all you've got to do is advertise. I think people are just beginning to advertise blues. Aretha Franklin, for instance, had one of the biggest records in the country, called 'I Never Loved A Man'. Now that's about as funky as we get. That's real blues.

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