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10 Essential B.B. King Blues Songs to Celebrate Black History Month 2025.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few artists have defined the blues as profoundly as B.B. King. His soulful voice, lyrical storytelling, and ...

B.B. King Centennial: U2’s The Edge, Joe Bonamassa and Others Pay Tribute to the Legendary Bluesman

When B.B. King died in May 2015 at the age of 89, his Variety obituary hailed him as “the ‘King of the Blues,’ who helped define his genre’s electrified postwar sound and became the music’s best-known ...
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B.B. King Would Have Been 100 Today. A New Generation of Blues Musicians Are Making Sure We Don’t Forget It.

When B.B. King passed away in 2015 at the age of 89, he left behind a challenge. “Do what you can to keep the blues alive,” he often told those who crossed his path. Today, on what would have been ...
USA Today

B.B. King at 100: Why the 'King of the Blues' still matters

B.B. King, the King of the Blues, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16. Most Americans know his name, his primacy among blues legends, and the singular identity of his beloved hollow-body Gibson guitar ...