B.B. King
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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
By Matt Parker published
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
By Matt Owen published
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
By Jackson Maxwell published
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
By Matt Owen published
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
By Richard Barrett published
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
By Kirk Fletcher published
Kirk Fletcher pays tribute to the King of the Blues with a lesson that explores the magic of the legendary bluesman's style
Epiphone unveils new Cherry-finished B.B. King Lucille guitar
By Jackson Maxwell published
A Bone White-finished Epi Lucille has also been unveiled, exclusively for the European market
10 pro guitarists who broke strings onstage – and how they recovered
By Jonathan Horsley published
The rock royals, pop icons and blues heroes who kept their cool in the heat of battle and styled it out even after going a string down...
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