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Biography
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B.B. Cunningham
Real name: Blake Baker Cunningham, Jr.
Effective period / Period of releases: 1959 - 1974
Musician, producer and sound engineer, brother of Bill Cunningham from the Box Tops, son of Buddy Blake Cunningham. Aged 14 he was the youngest musician ever allowed to join the Memphis Musician's Union. In 1997 B.B. joined Jerry Lee Lewis as his bassist.He was shot and killed in Memphis on October 14, 2012 while he was working as a security guard.