Joe Bonamassa once called Eric Clapton his favorite guitar player of all time. Now, the two blues greats are set to collaborate on a B.B. King classic

Bonamassa's star-studded tribute project to B.B. King – B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 – is set to be released in February, ...

Buddy Guy, Larkin Poe, and the Cross-Generational Power of B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100

Joe Bonamassa’s sprawling centennial tribute keeps unfolding – Vol. III reminds us that the blues is still alive, still ...
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A BB King playlist on what would have been his 97th birthday

"Nobody loves me but my mother...and she could be jivin' too!"In today's world, there may never be another "King of the Blues." Yet, the United States had one...and he lived up to every bit of his ...
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Eric Clapton, B.B. King’s ‘Riding with the King’ to Be Reissued With Two Unreleased Tracks

Eric Clapton and B.B. King‘s 2000 collaborative album Riding With the King will be reissued for its 20th anniversary with two previously unreleased tracks on June 26th via Reprise Records. One of ...
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Watch U2 Play “When Love Comes To Town” For The First Time In 22 Years In Tribute To B.B. King

U2 stopped playing their Rattle And Hum B.B. King collaboration “When Love Comes To Town” live in 1993, but King took up the mantle and had been playing the song occasionally at his shows since. Last ...
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B.B. King: Through the Years

Sixty-six years passed from the time in 1948 when Riley King auditioned for a spot on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program, until his final performance at the House of Blues on October 3, 2014 in ...
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B.B. King's 100th birthday celebrations set for Indianola and Memphis

B.B. King, legendary "King of the Blues" who died in at the age of 89 in 2015, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16, 2025. In 1925, Riley B. King was born in Berclair, Mississippi, a small, ...