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B.B. King and Freddie King: Kings Of The Blues

Richard Green, New Musical Express, 11 December 1971

Two bluesmen who have become living legends talk about their careers and the state of the blues today. And B.B. King and Freddie King both agree that this music which is the black man's own has now reached the extraordinary position of having more young white exponents than black.

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