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 ...

The man born Riley B. King had every right to play the blues. Revered by peers such as Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Albert King, Chuck Berry and Otis Rush, he also garnered a plethora of later admirers, ...

B.B. King played for over two hours Sunday night to a nearly sold-out crowd in Burruss Hall. The show, sponsored by Virginia Tech Union, was half authentic blues music and half storytelling. It seemed ...

B.B. King was of course a blues-guitar genius. But that wasn’t the only instrument he mastered. Joe Bonamassa learned as much at an early age. A masterful bluesman himself, Bonamassa opened for King ...

Newsweek profiled the late blues guitarist B.B. King, who died this week at 89, as he rose to national fame in 1968. Although its form is rigid and its words are old, the blues has an uncanny knack of ...

There's little need for explanation when it comes to Albert King. Though he never had a profile near that of B.B., the "other" King, he has been incredibly influential on generations of blues ...