When I caught up with B.B. King's tour bus in Independence, Mo., in 2011, it had just turned into the parking lot of the Independence Events Center and nosed up to the backstage door. It was late on a bitter cold afternoon with a blizzard forecast for later the next day. Fortunately, my flight out of Kansas City to New York was a morning departure.
As th…
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