B.B. King News

The key to Texas-style blues is all in the shuffle of the beat, Sticks says. "Dap-dappa-dap-dappa-dappa-dap-dap!" he said, tapping a tabletop in time.

Guitar Center is pleased to announce the return of King Of The Blues , the nationwide search for the next great undiscovered blues guitar player.

Two of Mississippi's own - international blues icon B.B. King and jazz star Cassandra Wilson - will be top draws for the 2009-2010 performance season at the Mississippi State University Riley Center in Meridian.

Despite having a relatively small population base, the border town of Sackville can boast of having one of the region's more vibrant arts and culture scenes.

Michael Jackson never played much guitar. But if you think back to your favorite guitarist, you probably think of a particular sound, a particular tone.

Alligator Records has set an August 11 street date for Hard Believer , the label debut from blues, rock and R&B singer, songwriter and guitarist Tommy Castro.

KEWASKUM - A.J. Croce will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, in the Kewaskum Theatre at Kewaskum High School in the third annual Brick by Brick fundraising concert.

A summer full of concerts and workshops at the Augusta Heritage Center gets under way Monday at Davis and Elkins College.

Blues is a musical genre. 'The blues' has always meant something different; a kind of club that people - mostly men - of a certain generation joined.The Rolling Stones and Clapton came out of the early-Sixties boom, the former leaving the blues behind for rock stardom.

I'm originally from Chicago . When you're in Chicago and in the mood for blues or jazz, you'll be sure to find it.

Well before the last great bluesman graces the stage at the CIA the fans are already feverishly photographing BB Kinga s famous blues partner - his guitar Lucille.

Blues legend B.B. King's sister, Cora King, died Monday in Los Angeles. She lived in Gardena, Calif., and was 70.

Gibson Guitar, the world's premier musical instrument maker and leader in music technology, is pleased to announce its partnership with the Montreux Jazz Festival.

If your musical tastes lean towards the blues and vintage R&B, then the Kinston library is the place to be this Sunday.

The Donald Underwood Thompson Band will have Wilsonians singing the blues Wednesday.

DVD Review: B.B. King Live at Montreux 1993 Jun 23, 2009 3:32 PM, By Blair Jackson B.B. King was 68 when this wonderful show was recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

In 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., killing four girls.

A Jersey cop is accusing the former head of Motown Records of beating him and stealing his badge at a popular blues club in Times Square.

The Blues Providers are all about the blues. Original Chicago, classic, swing, big band and West-Coast Jump a ' you name it, they'll play it.

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