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| VIDEO: B.B. KING AND BUDDY GUY |
| It was a historic moment – and a great time – when B.B. King and Buddy Guy came to the Bluesville Studios. The two legends sat down with Bluesville Host Bill Wax to talk about their incredible careers, and how the world has changed since they each started singing the blues. Watch some of their conversation below, and be sure to catch the interview on B.B.’s show, You and Me and B.B. King.
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Tony Colter
Tony likes to tell his own story, so we’ll let him: “Before I was old enough to know it, I think I was already preparing for a career in radio. I was returning to the good old USA after living in Europe for several years with my family (my dad was a military officer stationed in Europe), and one of the first things I remember was being in New York City and seeing the skyscrapers and a 1967 Mercury Cougar that had the turn signals that blinked one at a time, and listening to Top 40 Radio! I had never really heard Top 40 Radio and was hooked! It wasn't long before I won a call-in radio contest and picked up a Temptations Greatest Hits album and got the tour of the station, and somehow I knew that radio was what I wanted to do. After playing in several garage bands I joined my College Radio Station in 1974. In 1979 I started working in radio, and I entered the world of satellite radio in 2004.”
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Pat St. John | email
Pat has been DJ-ing on rock radio since he was 16 years old, and he knows that all great rock music comes from the blues! He cites seeing the late, great Freddie King open for Leon Russell as one of his most memorable concert experiences... and ditto for October 16, 1990, when Pat was the MC for the John Lee Hooker tribute concert at New York's Madison Square Garden. "Getting to shake Mr. Hooker's hand was quite an honor," he recalls fondly. He's had a lot of memorable experiences, but having Eric Clapton co-hosting with him, well, that may just take the cake. And, as Pat points out, "This sure beats my first job – scooping ice-cream at Baskin-Robbins!"
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Bill Wax
In the early and mid 1960s, Bill Wax cut his teeth in Washington, DC, listening to great black musicians play the Howard Theatre. Putting himself to sleep every night with a transistor radio hidden under his pillow, Wax was bitten early by the radio bug but didn't begin broadcasting until the late 1970s in Columbia, Missouri. He's been sharing his love for the blues on the radio waves ever since.
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From the Delta, Chicago, New Orleans, and more: B.B. King's Bluesville covers more than 80 years of music, for all lovers of the blues. Featuring the roots to today's blues, it's your down-home destination where artists and fans are equally comfortable.
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