"A treasure trove of information...told with real feeling."
--Washington Post Book World
"Charming...honest...transcendent.... It reads like a warm and lengthy
conversation with a close friend." --Billboard
The undisputed king of the blues, B.B. King puts his life into words in
a story that spans tragedy, triumph, and everything in between--and he
tells it just how he plays it, straight from the heart. A true-to-life
tale of overcoming monumental odds to succeed as an artist in an often
unfriendly world, Blues All Around Me is also the story of how blues
music changed during its migration from the Mississippi Delta to urban
areas such as Chicago. Rolling Stone calls B.B.'s memoir a "very
American success story [told] with the lyricism and leisurely pace of
a born storyteller."