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 ...

A new tribute album reimagines B.B. King's 1975 record, "Lucille Talks Back." The project features a diverse group of blues, ...

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A scruffy-faced Eric Clapton stared down into his phone camera with a heartfelt message — viewed some 9.5 million times by Friday afternoon. “I just wanted to express my sadness and say thank you to ...

B.B. King’s 1975 album Lucille Talks Back is receiving a fresh push this year as a 50‑year anniversary tribute that will be ...

Discussions about early rock ‘n’ roll and blues music often center around the likes of Chuck Berry and Ray Charles, respectively, despite B.B. King being an integral player in either genre. This ...

See and hear B.B. King in performance while musicians share the same response to the King of the Blues’ artistry: they know it’s B.B. King playing by hearing just one note of his guitar. This film ...

The King of the Blues never contested claims from women during his decades of touring who came forward saying he was the father of their babies — even though a low sperm count made it highly unlikely.

Sixty-six years passed from the time in 1948 when Riley King auditioned for a spot on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program, until his final performance at the House of Blues on October 3, 2014 in ...

Blues legend B.B. King died Thursday at the age of 89. Letter to the editor: When I was a kid growing up in Arkansas in the early '60s, the blues, perhaps more than anything else, was a plaintive ...

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 ...

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 ...