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Vinyl Icon: B.B. King's Live at the Regal

Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, August 2015

ON NOVEMBER 21, 1964 Chicago's historic Regal Theater became the recording location for B.B. King's incendiary in-concert album Live at the Regal, which would not only vault King from black urban blues star to world-wide guitar phenomenon, but would open up the blues in general to a white audience.

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