B.B. King

<p>Memphis, the home of the blues, was a college of learning for me.</p>

<p><span class="deck">A gracious antebellum city of stern-wheelers and cotton money; a restless, violent city with a hot grain of genius at its heart; a city of calamity, desolation, and rebirth; a city that changed the way the whole world hears music. It’s all the same city, and it is this year’s Great American Place. Thomas Childers answers a summons to Memphis, Tennessee.</span></p>

<p>A longtime expert on blues music recounts what it was like to work with one of America's greatest musicians.</p>