I'd Rather Go Blind

Teenage rebellion never played well with the Blues, where tradition trumps novelty and age gets the edge over beauty. The ‘60s blues revival, led by young bands like Paul Butterfield's (“Born in Chicago”), hipped America to many of the music's prime movers, hooking them up with the largest crowds of their careers. “Born Under a Bad Sign” took funky/sly Albert King to the top of Fillmore bills and onto the turntables of free-form FM radio. B.B. King scaled pop-chart heights with “The Thrill Is Gone,” eventually nabbed himself 15 Grammys and today is rightly propped as one of the guitar's greatest stylists.