BB King Plays To HIs Most Passionate Audience,Sing Sing Inmates

The time is 1972. I got the opportunity to enter the famous/infamous Sing Sing Prison, the maximum-security prison in New York State. The place where they housed the electric chair. The place that held lifers. My partner and I proposed a concert that we would present to the inmates and film the results. This could never have happened if just a year before, the famous/infamous Attica prison revolt had taken place where dozens died. To make the concert meaningful, we invited blues great BB King, Joan Baez and her sister Mimi Farina, Jimmy Walker (Dynomite), The Voices Of East Harlem, an up-and-coming group and others. They all said yes to our offer. So on Thanksgiving day the live concert happened inside the joint in Ossining New York. I hired seven fellow documentary filmmakers – cameramen and sound men two men teams, to record what was happening on the stage and off. BB King came with his entire band and charged us… $0 dollars. A generous gift. And when he got up on the stage, all hell broke loose. The audience got what he was about and really understood the blues. His guitar, Lucille cried out and the audience responded. There were 1200 men in the hall that day and the results quickly became history. BB King said at that time that this was the best concert he had ever given. Probably because of the interactions between the audience and him. So if you are feeling blue, if you are feeling the blues, hearing BB let loose to a group of guys in a pretty tough place, in that very rough prison, this may just ease the feeling and take the blues away. I hope so anyway. Please continue to support David at Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/allinaday12 Patreon: patreon.com/allinaday Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/david...