The man born Riley B. King had every right to play the blues. Revered by peers such as Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Albert King, Chuck Berry and Otis Rush, he also garnered a plethora of later admirers, ...

Blues icon Joe Bonamassa, 48, is getting ready to release his new album, B.B. King's Blues Summit 100, and he opened up to fans about how the project will honor his mentor and friend, B.B. King, on ...

B.B. King is a singular blues guitarist. He is instantly recognizable in a genre of music that has for hundreds of years relied on generally the same chord structure and patterns. Why? Because B.B.

B.B. King lived large and long, tallying 89 years before his death in 2015. Nearly 70 of those years were spent performing: from a spirited young voice on Memphis radio to barnstorming the chitlin’ ...

B.B. King, born Riley B. King on Sept. 16, 1925, in Itta Bena, Mississippi, was an icon in music history. With his groundbreaking guitar playing and soulful voice, King became a global ambassador of ...

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, ...

Even before B.B. King and his seven-piece band stepped on stage Saturday night at the River Center Theatre, people walked up front in a steady line to shoot photos. Why were they taking photos of a ...

As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region’s famous native son B.B. King croons “Why I Sing the Blues” on the radio. Music that sprung from ...

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 ...

REUTERS - Guitarist Eric Clapton remembered the B.B. King album that inspired him as a young musician and Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton recalled the thrill of performing with the "King of ...

SIOUX CITY -- For many generations of music lovers, B.B. King was never simply "The King of the Blues." Instead, Riley B. King, the Itta Bena, Mississippi-born son of sharecroppers, was often the only ...