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Good evening and welcome to a second look. Im julie haener. Tonight we pay our respects to blues man bb king. Who once said i wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions. Bb king died earlier this month at the age of 89. Bb king credited a preacher uncle for teaching him to play the guitar. He was born in 1925 to sharecroppers in the mississippi delta. He remembered a childhood of hunger pains and poverty. Picking cottons and seeing a black man lynched by a mob. He crashed a tractor and left the delta. Made his way to delta where he worked as a dj. King played a punishing schedule as many as 233 shows in a year. Listed among his legions of fans. Eric clapton and henderson. He was the first blues singer to play on the tonight show. B. B. King was inducted into the Blues Foundation hall of fame. And received the president ial medal of freedom from president george w. Bush. And he sang with president obama. Bb king often delighte ....