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Anybody who has picked up the electric guitar owes something to B.B. King – learn how to incorporate his lyrical style and immaculate phrasing into your own playing with these must-try solos
Get to grips with the famed 'B.B. box', sharpen up your vibrato skills and conquer the 12-bar blues in this deep-dive into the King of the Blues' soloing style
"You are hot tonight, young man": when Gary Moore (and Greeny) played The Thrill Is Gone with B.B. King
The blues titans' 1992 collaboration yielded what must rank as one of the greatest call and response sequences ever committed to tape
Joe Bonamassa, Joanne Shaw Taylor and Carmen Vandenberg play an electrifying game of blues tag in this cover of B.B. King’s Ain’t Nobody Home
The three players trade licks and smiles – all backed by Josh Smith – on this classic King cover, albeit seemingly unaware of the irony that they’ve crowded in a room to do so
Watch the moment Derek Trucks receives the biggest compliment possible from B.B. King after dazzling him with his slide skills
Susan Tedeschi and John Mayer were also in attendance when the blues guitar hero labeled Trucks' slide solo “as good as I’ve ever heard”
Watch Bonnie Raitt leave B.B. King in awe with a series of stunning slide solos at the House of Blues Chicago in 2004
King once said that Raitt was the “best damn slide player working today”
Gibson commemorates B.B King’s iconic Live at the Regal album with Custom Shop Argentine Grey ES-335
The limited-edition Murphy Lab model recreates the custom-finished '59 ES-335 that the guitar legend used to record one of the greatest live blues albums of all time
Learn the vibrato styles of 5 giants of the blues
Welcome to vibrato bootcamp, where we'll be looking at how B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Gary Moore, Peter Green and Paul Kossoff shook those strings
How to play the blues like B.B. King
Kirk Fletcher pays tribute to the King of the Blues with a lesson that explores the magic of the legendary bluesman's style
