{"id":16798,"date":"2003-01-03T16:51:32","date_gmt":"2003-01-03T21:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=16798"},"modified":"2020-05-01T10:53:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T14:53:04","slug":"5-things-that-bring-b-b-king-back-to-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/5-things-that-bring-b-b-king-back-to-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"B.B. King"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>5 Things That Bring B.B. King Back to Maine<\/h1>\n<p><em>Interview by Steve Luttrell<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When we contact road manager Sherman Darby to set up a chat with blues legend B.B. King, the band is on their bus, 30 miles from New Orleans. \u201cWe\u2019ll be arriving at our hotel in half an hour,\u201d Sherman says. \u201cCall and ask for Pump Davidson.\u201d We call Room 2314, ask for Pump Davidson. The operator says there is no Pump Davidson in the hotel. We call Sherman back, and he laughs, \u201cWell, you might as well call back and ask for B.B. King.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>What are five reasons that keep you coming back to Maine?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>B.B. King<\/strong> 1: Staying at the Holiday Inn by the Bay<\/p>\n<p><strong>B.B. King<\/strong> 2: They serve me lobster when I\u2019m there. I am a seafood eater\u2014I see food and eat it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>B.B. King<\/strong> 3: Maine is the kind of place where you can tell your band, play it like you feel it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>B.B. King <\/strong>4: Did I mention lobster?<\/p>\n<p><strong>B.B. King<\/strong> 5: Maine is a laid back and beautiful place. You feel welcome there, it reminds me of New Zealand. After a show, everything\u2019s relaxed enough so that I can talk with teenagers who come and admire my playing. I started a tradition of giving them guitar picks I\u2019d used during the show. Now the older teenagers love them, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We asked B.B. King what five reasons keep him coming back to Maine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[943],"tags":[499,498,500],"class_list":["post-16798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personalities","tag-b-b-king","tag-bb-king","tag-holiday-inn-by-the-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18036,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798\/revisions\/18036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}