Chords for B.B. King 1968 Interview

Were people that seemed to have had the soul that I could feel now
There was a lot of big bands around during that time
But bass is somehow another always stuck to me because I like Jimmy Russian see I like Jimmy's singing and the
Arrangement that they would have around Jimmy really got to me and then I would listen to Duke and I like Duke because a
Lot of times he had people like Al Hibbler singing and I in fact I remember
I _ _ _ _
What I'm trying to get to Benny Goodman during that time
would feature
Charlie Christian quite a bit, you know, and I'd get a chance to hear that and I could feel that soul down there and
_ _ I
_ think
_ This is one of the few things that started me to listening to the guitar, but well, I'll take that back
I had been listening because I remember my
My uncle were married to a sanctified preacher's sister and _
_ _ _ This preacher after church on a Sunday afternoon would visit his sister which was my heart and
He'd always lay this guitar on the bed and I'd go get it soon as they turned it back.
So I think
This is really what started me to fooling with the guitar not by listening to some of the other people
But I like I've liked blues ever
Evidently it and the spiritual music always stuck with me
I guess from well, my mother started me singing about four or five each thing with her and I think I just had it inside
that feeling on the guitar that
singing string that
We went was a phrase you used for it before twingy.
This is your own.
This is this is your contribution
I [F] think so.
I've
[F#m] _
I
Think it is [F#] as I've heard so many guys since I started playing sound that way and I don't remember ever hearing anybody before that
Not before that you do you have the feeling that your voice and the gut and the guitar are interchangeable
That you sing on the guitar and you play with the voice.
I think so
You know
Listening to horn players after I started trying to play I hear guy playing and he phrase
Note otherwise Bennett like [G] Lester Young used to do
[N] _ _ Well, _ I can hear myself singing when I play that may sound weird, but I can hear the words that I'm seeing
_ A lot of times don't mean as much to me as the way I say it
_ And I think this is the same thing.
I've tried to do on the guitar.
It's been a sound that I've heard
For years, but I I haven't quite got it exactly like I wanted but I believe [F] that
no guy should be able to
phrase on a guitar almost like the singing of a
violin, maybe a
Saxophone really and this I guess is what I've been trying to get but I can't tell anybody what I want to hear
but I have I
_ Hear it myself, but I can't play it.
I don't know how to really get it myself
But you'll know when you get it.
I think so
Yeah, I think so
Many of these young players coming along today have been [C#] really turned on by the way you play the guitar people like Mike [G] Bloomfield
[F] Oh, he's you [A] hear yourself coming back from [F#] those
Well
_ _ _ Yes, I believe I do.
I don't want to stick my neck out there, but I think so
But I'm I'm grateful that some of them seem to like me I'm I'm grateful because
To me it seemed to open a few doors for us that
Seemed like there was never gonna be open and we're glad when people like
Mike and the rest of the fellows will
Take up some of the things we do.
[G] We're very happy because until _
The days of rock and roll a lot of times
_ A lot of the places we they just wouldn't accept us
I'm not I'm not speaking racially [F#] and I'm just talking about the people as a whole that just wouldn't accept [F] us in some of the
Places that the doors open now that you can go into
because of people like Mike
Elvis Presley the Beatles
_ Fats Domino [C#] people like that helped us out quite a bit
What do you want to do with your music and with your singing _
Play the best that I can
_ [D#] Reach as many people as can as many countries
In other words, I'd like the whole world to be able to hear BB King sing and play the blues
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