Yahoo

B.B. King Would Have Been 100 Today. A New Generation of Blues Musicians Are Making Sure We Don’t Forget It.

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 ...
Yahoo

B.B. King at 100: Why the 'King of the Blues' still matters

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...
New York Post

B.B. King was once on ‘Blossom’ and his other great TV and film cameos

You don’t need to be a musicologist to understand why B.B. King was a modern American icon. The charismatic blues legend carried almost as much cultural weight on-screen as he did onstage. During the ...
Los Angeles Times

Appreciation: B.B. King built a bridge to the blues for the world

The least important historical fact about B.B. King, who died in Las Vegas on Thursday, is the one most people know: that he played the blues on a guitar he’d named Lucille. But that ax and her tone, ...
Time

B.B. King Laid to Rest in Mississippi

The casket bearing the body of blues legend B.B. King is wheeled to a waiting hearse in front of the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center after a day of public viewing on May 29, 2015 in ...
American Songwriter

B.B. King Had Hilarious Way of Describing His Music (And Explaining Why He Was Never as Big as Chuck Berry)

From ZZ Top to Jimmy Page to Susan Tedeschi, B.B. King has been a significant influence on rock and blues artists who came after him. Yet, when we think of the most ubiquitous musicians of either ...
Forbes

Memphis To Honor B.B. King In Upcoming 100th Birthday Celebration

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, ...
Time

B.B. King Died From Mini Strokes, Coroner Says

Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. B.B. King performs on stage during Frampton's Guitar Circus at Route 66 Casino's Legends Theater on August 21, 2013 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Oaklander is a ...
Rolling Stone

B.B. King Band Members to Portray Themselves in ‘The Thrill Is Gone’ Film

Four members of B.B. King’s band will portray themselves in The Thrill Is Gone, an upcoming film that stars The Wire’s Wendell Pierce as the legendary bluesman. The Thrill Is Gone — which King’s ...
CNN

Blues legend B.B. King dies at age 89

B.B. is short for Blues Boy, part of the name he used as a Memphis disc jockey Riley B. King, the legendary guitarist known as B.B. King, whose velvety voice and economical, expressive style brought ...
Los Angeles Times

B.B. King dies: Generations of guitarists used ‘B.B. Box’ to learn how to play

Check out any guitarist at a nightclub, arena or recording studio, and chances are the sound you hear is being colored by an array of effects pedals that add distortion, echo, phase-shifting, wah-wah ...