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I saw him live more than once & reviewed him for the college paper. He was better live than on record, which is the way it should be. Recommend Live at the Regal and Blues is King (also live) as hommage to what he really was & sounded like, both recorded in front of a black audience, which interacts actively with the music, just as it does in church. Thrill is Gone is to BB what Satisfaction is to the Stones, just the mass hit, far from the best. BB was the Ambassador of the Blues, a very cool gentleman.
PS. Whites and the white media tend to focus on his guitar, which is a mistake. He was a singer first, with guitar accompaniment.