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B.B. and Bono
ELECTRIC!

Lovetown Tour
Australia, 1989

Duration: 5:35

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Ahh, Ruth and B.B. are great together!

Video clip from The Blues Summit Concert in
1993.

Duration: 4:51

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BB King and Gary Moore
The Thrill is Gone.
Awesome.

Duration: 8:59

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B.B. King’s new CD “One Kind Favor” is getting rave reviews, some calling it his best studio album EVER. All told, the 12 songs on the CD are over 1 hour of the best from the 82 year old bluesman. Proving the old adage “age ain’t nothin’ but a number” — B.B. has always had it, still does. Decide for yourself, you can listen to sample tracks by clicking the link below.

B.B. King’s New CD

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B.B. King plays live guitar solo. This came from the extras on the DVD The Road to Memphis: http://www.pbs.org/theblues/aboutfilms/pearce.html

Duration : 3:12

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Like any record company worth their salt, MCA knows a good gimmick when they see it, and when the millennium came around…well, the 20th Century Masters — The Millennium Collection wasn’t too far behind. Supposedly, the millennium is a momentous occasion, but it’s hard to feel that way when it’s used as another excuse to turn out a budget-line series. But apart from the presumptuous title, 20th Century Masters — The Millennium Collection turns out to be a very good budget-line series. True, it’s impossible for any of these brief collections to be definitive, but they’re nevertheless solid samplers that don’t feature a bad song in the bunch. For example, take B.B. King’s 20th Century volume — it’s an irresistible ten-song summary of his MCA recordings. There may be a couple of noteworthy songs missing, but many of his best-known songs for the label are here, including “The Thrill Is Gone,” “Ain’t Nobody Home,” “Let the Good Times Roll,” “Don’t Answer the Door,” “Sweet Sixteen” and “Paying the Cost to Be the Boss.” Serious fans will want something more extensive, but this is an excellent introduction for neophytes and a great sampler for casual fans, considering its length and price. That doesn’t erase the ridiculousness of the series title, but the silliness is excusable when the music and the collections are good.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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B.B. King king of the blues do you know why he calls his guitar Lucille?

The short version: Two men got into a fight at one of his concerts and knocked over a stove, setting fire to the hall. When B.B. realized he had left his guitar inside he ran back in to rescue it. He found out later that the men had been fighting over a woman called Lucille, so after that he called his guitar Lucille – to remind him how dumb it was to have run back into that burning hall.

No way can a mere four discs cover every facet of the blues king’s amazing recording career, but MCA makes a valiant stab at it. The first two discs, as expected, are immaculate: opening with his Bullet Records debut (”Miss Martha King”), the box continues with a handful of pivotal RPM/Kent masters before digging into his 1960s ABC-Paramount material (”I’m Gonna Sit in ‘Til You Give In” and “My Baby’s Comin’ Home” are little-recalled gems). The hits — “The Thrill Is Gone,” “Why I Sing the Blues,” “To Know You Is to Love You” — are all here, and if much of the fourth disc is pretty disposable, it only mirrors King’s own winding down in the studio.

- Bill Dahl, All Music Guide

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