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 ...

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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.

In what would have been B.B. King’s 100 th birthday month, CU Boulder music scholar Shawn O’Neal considers how the legends of blues can be heard in even the fizziest pop of 2025 B.B. King was born to ...

LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, February 6, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — From protégé to torchbearer, Joe Bonamassa honors his hero B.B. King with today’s release ...

Ford Nelson began his career as pianist for blues man B.B. King in the 1940s before becoming a leading broadcaster on WDIA ...

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, ...

A striking ad from the early ’70s celebrates “the man and the woman” – B.B. King is the man, of course, and “Lucille, 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 ...