Anyone who’s studied Stevie Ray Vaughan’s gear would have noticed the “upside-down” tremolo on his 1959 Fender Stratocaster. Dubbed “Number One” and “First Wife,” the electric ...
Bill Graham Despite being one of the ‘Kings of the Blues’ and having been born in Indianola, B.B. King’s hometown, his real name was Albert Nelson, the son of an itinerant preacher.
Caterpillar was up for the challenge. Ten of the first 25 Caterpillar Diesel Sixty Tractors built in 1931 and 1932 worked on the King Albert Canal – an approximately 80 mile stretch from Antwerp to ...
If the name’s not immediately familiar it’s because, when he started out as a professional musician, Nelson renamed himself Albert King, after another King who grew up in the same town ...