The Legendary BB King

It is hard to believe the summer is almost at an end again, where has the year gone? In about two weeks, the official end of summer in the US, Labor Day will occur, and everything that is "seasonal" will cease, irrespective of the weather. Pools will close, mini golf will close, some golf courses will close, the outdoor concert season will be over and fall will be official. I have actually started to detect leaves changing and dropping already.

My regulars will know that we have been frequent visitors to Ravinia last year and this, with our latest trip taking in the great BB King and a "support" act of Mavis Staples, who apparently comes from a long line of Staples family blues singers, but I honestly had never heard of her. BB King is 80 years old this year, and coincidentally so is Tony Bennett who we will be seeing in September; what a year 1926!

I haven't been to a Blues concert in a while, and I certainly had not seen people of this age and magnitude before, and so it was quite funny to hear them only play about a dozen songs between them, filling the rest with stories, anecdotes and general chit chat, but we had a great time nonetheless. BB was awesome, played some old favourites and regaled us with stories of his exploits.

With Blues being so ingrained in Chicago history, although whether the people of New Orleans may have a different opinion of the "Home Of The Blues" tag, the Lt Gov declared Saturday as BB King Day in Illinois.

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