B.B. King Credits Larry King For 'Riding With The King'

08/22/2000 3:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(8/22/00, 3 p.m. ET) - Guitar legends Eric Clapton and B.B. King are celebrating the platinum certification of Riding With The King, their collaborative effort that debuted at Number Three on the Billboard charts when it was released earlier this summer. In fact, it's the first platinum album of King's nearly 50-year career.

King tells LAUNCH that he's long wanted to do an album with his old friend Clapton, but that it came together only after he saw Clapton on TV. "I was watching Larry King, and I heard Eric say he'd like to do a CD with me, and I'd been wanting to hear that for years," says B.B. "He had did a, a track, 'Rock With Me Baby,' with me on the CD Deuces Wild, so that's been some time [ago]. From that time on, I've wanted to do a CD with him. He's such a good guy--he's always doing things for people--so being a friend, I didn't want to push it, but I was glad when I heard him say he'd like to do it."

King is currently leading his annual summer blues package, with Buddy Guy and Susan Tedeschi also on the bill.

-- Gary Graff, Detroit

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