Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He was the one to influence the greats, from O.G. Chicago blues phenoms such as Buddy Guy, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, the British ...

He was born in Berclair, Mississippi, with the name Riley B. King, a last name that would — though he wouldn't know it as a small child — point to the great things he would do. Riley was born on a ...

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, ...

BB King’s influence on blues guitar is immeasurable but we could begin to count the ways in which he shaped the art form, in the players who sought out his tutelage and counsel, who absorbed his ...