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B.B. King on the night in 1967 when he jammed with Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix
The night marked the moment King recognized his influence on the new generation of blues guitarists —but he had no bitterness ...
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The Life-Threatening Story About How B.B. King Named His Guitar
Blues legend B.B. King has named every guitar he played Lucille since one fateful night in the winter of 1949 in an Arkansas dance hall.
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6 Reasons to Visit the Birthplace of America’s Music
Celebrate Elvis Presley's 90th birthday and the 100th anniversary of B.B. King with a series of events in the birthplace of ...
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Mackenzie brings blues to Bon Soo
Father and son teamed up for three songs on Mackenzie’s debut album, Infected with the Blues, including the title track and ...
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Why Gibson’s B.B. King ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ 1974 ES-355 is a technical knockout
Think of the late, great B.B. King and a picture of his famous ‘Lucille’-model Gibson with its ES Artist-type sealed body will likely come to mind, although these didn’t actually appear in ...
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Flying Tonight: The Axe Attack Of The Gibson Flying V
in answer to B.B. King’s Lucille. The first of the guitars were made not of mahogany, but of limba, a lighter wood, and the look, designed by Gibson president Ted McCarty, was deliberately ...
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'Transforming struggle into strength': B.B. King and Medgar Evers given centennial celebration
SPEAKING OF BIRTHDAYS, THIS YEAR MARKS THE CENTENNIAL BIRTHDAYS OF TWO MISSISSIPPI ICONS. BLUES LEGEND B.B. KING AND CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER MEDGAR EVERS. >> TODAY, THE STATE IS KICKING OFF A YEAR OF ...
Martin Luther King III on Growing Up Without His Iconic Dad, How He Had to 'Emerge from My Father's Vast Shadow'
Martin Luther King III discusses the legacy of his iconic father and his emotional struggle to forge a path of his own in an ...