ALICEVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A wake and funeral are planned this
weekend for Alabama blues artist Willie King, who died Sunday at
the age of 65.
A wake is scheduled for 1-3 p.m. Saturday at King's home in the
Old Memphis community in Pickens County. His funeral is set for 2
p.m. Sunday at the Aliceville City Hall.
The Alabama Blues Project has set up a memorial fund to help
with funeral expenses.
King was raised by sharecroppers in west Alabama. But he used
his guitar and his voice to go from backwoods juke joints to the
largest blues music festivals in America and Europe.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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