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Friday Nite Videos -- May 15, 2015

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BB King - 'The Thrill Is Gone'. BB King 'Swaps Some Blues' With a Prison Audience. Southern Rites (HBO Documentary). Jeb Bush’s ‘Weird’ Iraq Answers. Bernie Sanders: "Call Me a Democratic Socialist"!

BB King - 'The Thrill Is Gone'

BB King (1993), a world-reknowned musician and blues ambassador, performing his biggest hit at the Montreux, Switzerland, jazz festival.

Southern Rites (HBO Documentary)

Producer John Legend set out to document the desegregation of a Southern prom, and discovered that it would turn into a much larger story. Airs May 18.

Jeb Bush’s ‘Weird’ Iraq Answers

Jon Stewart wades through all of Jeb Bush‘s different answers on Iraq. Misheard the question. Mistakes get made all the time. These questions do a disservice to the soldiers. Really, is it so hard?

B. B. King, Defining Bluesman

Tim Weiner The New York Times
“I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions,” Mr. King said in his autobiography, “Blues All Around Me.” Many of the songs he sang — like his biggest hit, “The Thrill Is Gone” (“I’ll still live on/But so lonely I’ll be”) — were poems of pain and perseverance.