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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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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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B.B. King had his breakthrough blues guitar moment with The Thrill Is Gone – but it was Jerry Jemmott’s bass that made it groove
B.B. King was already a 20-year veteran bluesman when he began to seep into mainstream America's consciousness during the late '60s, via the praise of rock guitarists like Eric Clapton and Mike ...
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B.B. King Is King of the Blues--Black Music That Whites Now Dig
Also, Mike Bloomfield did some excellent slide guitar work on the first Butterfield album ... or perfected as that of B. B. King but he is years younger than B.B. and is far more adventuresome.