The pinnacle album B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100, now fully released, was curated by Joe Bonamassa and took almost a full year to record. The 32-track project with 40 plus guest artists functions more ...

BB King’s influence on blues guitar is immeasurable but we could begin to count the ways in which he shaped the art form, in the players who sought out his tutelage and counsel, who absorbed his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Slash and B.B. King performing live. Last week, Slash released Orgy of the Damned – his first-ever solo blues cover record, which ...

Joe Bonamassa’s sprawling centennial tribute keeps unfolding – Vol. III reminds us that the blues is still alive, still changing, and still finding new ways to connect generations. When B.B. King said ...

The renowned bluesman, who died in 2015, spoke to Fresh Air in 1996 about growing up as the son of a sharecropper — and leaving the plantation as a young man to pursue a career in music. This is FRESH ...

He was born in Berclair, Mississippi, with the name Riley B. King, a last name that would — though he wouldn't know it as a small child — point to the great things he would do. Riley was born on a ...

B.B. King, the King of the Blues, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16. Most Americans know his name, his primacy among blues legends, and the singular identity of his beloved hollow-body Gibson guitar ...

The Mississippi guitar aficionado and father of Lucille was a tireless road warrior. By Phil Gallo, Billboard B.B. King Performing - H 2014 B.B. King, the last of the Southern-born blues musicians who ...

Indianola, Miss., will be home to a $10 million museum honoring the life and work of bluesman B.B. King. The Grammy-award winning guitar player turns 80 in September and still performs regularly. He ...

B.B. King is a singular blues guitarist. He is instantly recognizable in a genre of music that has for hundreds of years relied on generally the same chord structure and patterns. Why? Because B.B.