BB King Exclusive interview in Guitarist

From Guitarist: BB King Exclusive: “We recently caught up with a full-on legend; BB King. We’ll be featuring our interview in a future issue of the mag but if, like us, you just can’t wait, there’s a decent chunk of it up on Music Radar.”
(Via Guitarist.)

Learn to Play Like B.B. – Tabs of BB’s favorite licks in A

If you’re a regular (and if not, why the devil not?) reader, you’ll know about my love for the music of blues legend, BB King. So when this popped up on my RSS reader, I had no choice but to pass it on to you.

Learn to Play Like B.B. – Tabs of BB's favorite licks in A: “A free online guitar lesson on how to learn to play the blues like B.B. King. Includes mp3 clips, tablature, and many written examples of great BB King guitar riffs.”

(Via About.com Guitar: Most Popular Articles.)

Happy Birthday, BB King

Danny has an excellent post to mark BB King’s 83rd birthday. AS I said in this post about the Epiphone BB King Lucille, BB is one of my favourite all-time guitar players. I saw him live a couple of times, once in 1989 and once in 1993 and both nights were amazing. Sadly, he’s retired from touring outside the US, but there are plenty of live recordings available from over the years. In particular, Live at the Regal, and Live at San Quentin are very worthwhile checking out.

Epiphone BB King Lucille

For as long as I’ve been able to play the guitar, BB King has been my favourite guitar player. There’s something about his style which manages to capture the joy and misery of the blues in one note. And the way he wrings the neck of his beloved Lucille to extract every last ounce of vibrato and sustain from it is sensational.
I’ve been lucky enough to see him live twice. On the first occasion, at the Edinburgh Playhouse in 1989, the theatre was absolutely jumping. Everyone was dancing by the end and there was a couple in front of us who looked they were having a particularly good time.