B. B. King: There Is Always One More Time »

For blues, music, and B.B. King lovers, this biography is the first in the publisher's Lives in Music series. It focuses on King's music, including recording sessions and analysis, interviews with those involved in the sessions, with specific sections on albums and an entire chapter on the Crown albums. The book includes all record information and a buyer's guide to albums. Some of those interviewed are producers Bill Szymczyk and Stewart Levine, Eric Clapton, and music executive John Broven. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Blues & Rhythm Magazine

There Is Always One More Time" is the first volume of Lives in Music, a new series of books from Backbeat that seeks to produce volumes that mesh biography with discography. If this one is an example of what is to follow, then they re on a winner the book is a well-written, occasionally fascinating and critically important document for anyone interested in King s work or in the plethora of absorbing facts that accompany his life. this is a valuable contribution to blues literature.