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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Today (September 16) marks what would have been B.B King’s 100th birthday, and in honor of the milestone, Joe Bonamassa has helped spearhead a star-studded tribute album to the late blues icon titled ...

B.B. King, legendary "King of the Blues" who died in at the age of 89 in 2015, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16, 2025. In 1925, Riley B. King was born in Berclair, Mississippi, a small, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Canton Entertainment, the production company of Mark Canton and Dorothy Canton, is partnering with Vassal Benford and The B.B. King Music Company & Estate to develop Lucille, the first and ...

In 1980, Gibson introduced its first B.B. King signature guitar, a black ES-355 Thinline Dual Pickup Stereo Varitone model with a TP-6 fine-tuner tailpiece and “Lucille” spelled out in script on the ...

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 ...

Today, as the world marks what would’ve been King’s 100th birthday on Sept. 16, it seems ludicrous that anyone would call his powerful vocals “modest” or his wailing guitar twangy. But while he’d ...

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 ...