The King of the Blues played a supreme set at the Juan-les-Pins festival in 1996. His relationship with the place was both personal, and spiritual, in a sense – while BB was considered by many to be the living inheritant of the blues, the town of Juan-les-Pins is part of jazz' lineage, twinned with the music's very own cradle, New Orleans. It was maybe for that reason that BB felt so at home there, once famously saying: "I love juan. In Juan, I feel like a fish in water." He played at the festival several times and seemed to raise his game every time he came to Southern France, knowing that the audience basked in his every note.
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