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 ...

Slash and his Conspirators bandmate Myles Kennedy are featured on a new cover of U2 and B.B. King's collaborative 1989 single, "When Love Comes to Town." "We knew early on we wanted to include this U2 ...

Speaking recently with American Songwriter, Bonamassa described the new collaboration as one of a number of “happy accidents” that happened while he and co-producer Josh Smith were putting together ...

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 ...

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Daniel de Visé began contemplating a biography of B.B. King — one of the most iconic figures in American music — he was shocked at what he discovered.

Today, as the world marks what would’ve been King’s 100th birthday on Sept. 16, it seems ludicrous that anyone would call his powerful vocals “modest” or his wailing guitar twangy. But while he’d ...