By the time B.B. King recorded “The Thrill Is Gone” in 1969, the blues had already traveled far beyond its point of origin.
B.B.King would have turned 100 last September, but Joe Bonamassa has organized more than 40 players to pay tribute on a new ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When B.B. King passed away in 2015 at the age of 89, he left behind a challenge. “Do what you can to keep the blues alive,” he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Few artists have defined the blues as profoundly as B.B. King. His soulful voice, lyrical storytelling, and, of course, the wailing, emotive guitar licks of his beloved Gibson ES-355 ...
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.
In what would have been B.B. King’s 100 th birthday month, CU Boulder music scholar Shawn O’Neal considers how the legends of blues can be heard in even the fizziest pop of 2025 B.B. King was born to ...
B.B. King and Willie Nelson do not reside in the same genre of music, but they reside in a shared taste. A taste that cannot be defined by executives, marketers, or anyone who wishes to slap a label ...
When kings get the blues — it’s magic. The Reading Blues Fest will celebrate that magic when outstanding blues guitarists Albert Castiglia, D.K. Harrell and Chris Cain take the stage to present the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Windsor lives in Nashville, Tennessee and writes about music. It’s been a little over a decade since the death of B.B. King, ...
Sept. 16, 2025, will be a milestone in the history of Memphis and American music, as it marks what would have been B.B. King’s 100th birthday. To all who ever heard him play, King was the one true ...
When B.B. King passed away in 2015 at the age of 89, he left behind a challenge. “Do what you can to keep the blues alive,” he often told those who crossed his path. Today, on what would have been ...
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