How Gibson keeps the legendary bluesman's instrumental legacy alive In 1980, Gibson introduced its first B.B. King signature guitar, a black ES-355 Thinline Dual Pickup Stereo Varitone model with a TP ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Her name was “Lucille,” ...
Eric Clapton had “Blackie” and “Brownie”; Willie Nelson has “Trigger”; Keith Richards, “Micawber.” But before all of them, B.B. King had “Lucille.” One thing that Lucille is not — unlike Blackie, ...
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 ...