BB King began performing in the 1930s, on the street corners of his hometown Itta Bena, Mississippi. And ever since his big break, playing on a radio show in Memphis in 1948, he has maintained his ...

B.B. King’s ‘Lucille’ Guitar Going Up For Auction. ... The story goes that King first used that moniker for a guitar he rescued from a fire while he was playing an Arkansas club in 1949.

King is known for naming all of his guitars Lucille. The name inspired by a Cross County town called Twist. In the mid 1950's, B.B. King was playing in a juke joint in Twist.

But BB King was not always so hot on those lighter string gauge, at least not as Lee Ritenour remembers it. Ritenour has revealed that playing the King Of The Blues’ legendary electric guitar Lucille ...

B.B. King on What His Hand Looks Like After Decades of Playing Guitar "I almost chopped my thumb off once." By B.B. King Published: Jul 18, 2013.

B.B. King, who died Thursday at ... In fact, there have been many Lucilles, most famously a series of custom-designed Gibsons but starting with a $30 guitar he was playing at a bar in Arkansas ...

Long before he got the chance to pick it up for himself, the ZZ Top man found himself in a truly formative session with an ...

The Texan troubadour knew how to give the crowd their money's worth, and players such as Jimi Hendrix were watching. This ...