And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die. Fellow travelers who took King up on that theory included Clapton, the British-born blues-rocker who collaborated with him on Riding With ...

Priced $9,999/£8,999, the B.B. King 'Rumble in the Jungle' 1974 ES-355 is available now. See Gibson for more details.

B.B. King, seen here in 1971, is the subject of a new definitive biography, "King of the Blues."© Dale Ernsberger / The Tennessean A photo of young Riley B. King, eventually known the world over ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Crowds gathered at the Two Mississippi Museums to learn about the life, culture, legacy, and history of the musical artist B.B. King. “His music is about Black life in ...

Like B.B. King, one of his many musical influences, 73-year-old Johnson was born on a Mississippi cotton plantation and was a sharecropper, a tenant farming system he calls “modernized slavery.” ...

7:30–9 p.m. – B.B. King Centennial tribute, featuring Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, D.K. Harrell and Jonathan Ellison with the B.B. King Centennial Band, co-presented with the B.B. King ...

This is one of the longest B.B. King performances out there, and also one of his finest. “Lucille” is over 10 minutes long and comes from the hit 1968 album of the same name.

Ahead of his centenary, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music will celebrate King with a new photo exhibit. The museum will launch “B.B. King in Memphis” with a free opening reception on July 24.