King was born on September 16, 1925, on a cotton plantation between Indianola and what is now Itta Bena, Mississippi. He sang with church choirs as a child and learned basic guitar chords from his uncle, a preacher. In his youth, he played on street corners for dimes, saying he earned more in one night singing on the corner than he did in one week working in the cotton field. Mr. King's book entitled Living the Life Of Riley:
Meaning: Living easily without having to work hard, to
have an easy life (Playing the Blues) what a life, from picking cotton to picking this Ms. Lucille, his first love, his guitar...89 years...God blessed his soul.
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