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INDIANOLA, Miss., May 8, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ Exhibits that focus on the last decade of B.B. King s life have been added to the award-winning museum that bears his name, and on June 5, 2021, the public is invited to an unveiling of the expansion that also includes the finished Memorial Garden, King s final resting place. Items acquired after King s death in 2015 that are part of the 4,500 s.f. addition include two of his personal automobiles a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow and a custom painted Chevy El Camino. The largest item inside the new space is King s tour bus, which was filled with the latest music technology and served as his home on the road. Other artifacts include King s most cherished guitar, a Les Paul given to him by Paul himself, as well as the last two Gibson Lucille guitars signed by King, which were carried on a riderless black horse in his funeral procession.
First look inside the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville Dave Paulson, Nashville Tennessean
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There’s a central room in the new National Museum of African American Music – one that connects to all other corners of the 56,000-square-foot space.
It’s called the “Rivers of Rhythm” corridor, and once you step inside, you’re awash in the sounds that have defined America for 400 years.
On one end, you hear voices harmonizing over centuries-old spirituals, blending into the earliest recordings of Delta blues. At the same time, the opening saxophone flourishes of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” beckon from the other side of the hall, while Ice Cube tears into the first bars of “Straight Outta Compton.”