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It was December 1949. King and his band were playing a juke joint in the small town of Twist, Ark., when two men got in a fight and knocked over a flaming garbage pail half-filled with kerosene, ...

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 ...

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 ...

ZZ Top have recorded some great blues songs over the years – none of them better than the one on which Billy Gibbons played a Stratocaster gifted to him by the most revered guitarist of them all. It ...

Editor’s Note: Due to inclement weather, the Marcus King Band Family Reunion Festival has been moved to the North Charleston Coliseum. Long before Greenville singer and guitarist Marcus King played ...

Zach Myers is living the dream. The Shinedown guitarist is wearing dark shades, a retro Tina Turner T-shirt and is enjoying some well-deserved R&R on a fishing boat when he checks in via video call.

It's the perfect lesson for newer students that are starting to become confident with simple chord progressions and are looking to develop creativity with their strumming. If you are struggling with ...

King Albert II of Belgium has kickstarted cancer treatment for the sixth time in 11 years. The 91-year-old former monarch, who abdicated the Belgian throne in 2013, is once again undergoing ...

King Albert II of Belgium, the former monarch, is once more receiving preventative treatment for skin cancer. The recent surgery means that Albert, 91, has undergone cancer treatment at least six ...

This summer, Memphis is turning up the volume for a once-in-a-century celebration. In honor of what would have been B.B. King’s 100th birthday on September 16, 2025, Memphis Tourism and B.B. King’s ...

At just 27, fast-rising blues dynamo D.K. Harrell is probably a bit too young to be the subject of a feature film. But so many aspects of this Louisiana native’s life are worthy of big-screen ...