It's been five years since B.B. King went silent. The blues legend died on May 14, 2015, in Las Vegas. He was 89. For nearly 70 years, the Mississippi native – accompanied by his beloved guitar ...

Memphis, Tennessee is pulling out all the stops for what would have been the 100th birthday of Riley B. King—better known as B.B. King—the King of the Blues. The two-day celebration that blends live ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few artists have defined the blues as profoundly as B.B. King. His soulful voice, lyrical storytelling, and ...

, 88, drew loyal fans to the Civic Theatre in New Orleans on Thursday (Jan. 16). King who hails from Itta Bena, deep in the Mississippi Delta, has been a regular visitor to the New Orleans music scene ...

"Blues cats don't retire, they just drop," says Buddy Guy. That explains why the 72-year-old guitar legend and the genre's elder statesman, 83-year-old B.B. King, have banded together for yet another ...

Part of B.B. King’s brilliance existed in the way he made the blues work on his own terms— for him, the genre was not just synonymous with the great pain and mourning of black folk in America, but ...

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 ...

For B.B. King, the thrill clearly is not yet gone. At 86 years young, he continues to tour like a musician a quarter his age, when he’s not shooting TV commercials, accepting accolades and working ...

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 ...

This year marks five years since B.B. King‘s death, but the thrill of King’s music will live on during two ambitious nights: February 16th and 17th, 2020, at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New ...

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 ...