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Reviewed on October 15, 2014 | Video
Director Brewer's (Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark; Jimi Hendrix: The Guitar Hero) latest music biography tells the story of Mississippi farmhand Riley "B.B." King (b. 1925) and how he became a widely recognized and highly influential blues musician with a six decade-plus career. Overlong at just under two hours, this slowly paced film covers King's childhood in tremendous detail but skims through his adult years, losing focus and loosening its narrative s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More