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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

(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 ...

SIOUX CITY -- For many generations of music lovers, B.B. King was never simply "The King of the Blues." Instead, Riley B. King, the Itta Bena, Mississippi-born son of sharecroppers, was often the only ...

REUTERS - Guitarist Eric Clapton remembered the B.B. King album that inspired him as a young musician and Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton recalled the thrill of performing with the "King of ...

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 lived large and long, tallying 89 years before his death in 2015. Nearly 70 of those years were spent performing: from a spirited young voice on Memphis radio to barnstorming the chitlin’ ...

B.B King, in 2009. Photo by Tom Beetz via Wikipedia. Reproduced under the Creative Commons License. Blues guitarist B.B. King, known as the “King of the Blues,” passed away in his sleep Thursday ...