Born Riley B. King on Sept. 16, 1925, on a tenant farm near Itta Bena, Mississippi, King was raised by his grandmother after his parents separated and his mother died.

But B.B. King was a person, one of our best ever, and he lived a life befitting his legacy. These 10 facts only represent a fraction of how fascinating King’s life and music was: ...

King became known as “the Blues Boy of Beale Street,” then the Beale Street Blues Boy, shortened to Bee Bee King for his on-air nickname, and later simply B.B. King.

B.B. King’s name, face, music and heavenly finger vibrato were known far and wide long before the 20th century came to a close. But for the first half of his life, King toiled in near obscurity.

Having already worked separately with B.B. King and Eric Clapton, bass-guitar great Nathan East was understandably delighted to join the two guitar legends in 2000 when they recorded the chart-topp… ...

That was B.B. King: A humble, straight-talking, one-of-a-kind blues singer/musician who grew up in Kilmichael, Miss., and spent part of his teen years in Indianola, Miss.

The invention of the electric guitar in the 20 th century spawned a long list of great guitarists – B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, Eddie Van Halen and many more.

B.B.’s youngest daughter, Barbara, a hairdresser in Texas who says she’s “between 40 and 60,” says her mother hooked up with King when he was passing through Shreveport, La., for a gig ...

Indianola, Miss., will be home to a $10 million museum honoring the life and work of bluesman B.B. King. The Grammy-award winning guitar player turns 80 in September and still performs regularly ...

King's fourth Number One R&B hit lurches into gear with a six-note horn fanfare that drops out to make way for a distinctively looping guitar introduction. Subsequent live versions would ...

At 12 years old, a fortuitous meeting with B.B. King changed his life, and the child prodigy was invited to open for several of King’s performances in upstate New York.