B.B. King was once in the radio business, after all! When I wrote about the song My Lucille, I mentioned he had such a velvety voice he could have been a radio narrator. He just died this year and this documentary was made not more than five years ago. In the way it was made, he actually went back in time on a journey to the place he was born and where he spent his childhood. A rare opportunity for any human being.
In the meantime, he unfolds the details of his struggles while going from one place to another with such naturalness as he later describes his passion for music, his roots, his feeling abandoned, and his multiple achievements. How life was simple and extremely complicated at the same time.
From the farms, to the «chitlin’ circuit», to becoming the King of the Blues!
Interjecting the story, many of his comrades in music, as famous as he, expressed their gratitude for his contribution to the blues and for becoming their inspiration as they grew up listening to the sound of Lucille.
Of course, I was already in love with B. B., so this was an emotional documentary that I thoroughly enjoyed. One final coincidence? Morgan Freeman was the narrator!