"The song was first released on the album ""Lucille"" and is included on the B. B. King Anthology 1962–1998 album. King played guitars made by different manufacturers early in his career. He played a Fender Telecaster on most of his recordings with RPM Records (USA). However, he is best known for playing variants of the Gibson ES-335. In 1980, Gibson Guitar Corporation launched the B. B. King Lucille model. The most noticeable differences between the Lucille and the Gibson ES-355TD-SV on which it is based are the ""Lucille"" script on the headstock, the maple neck, and the lack of F-holes"
"sometimes used the same nickname as B.B—“Blues Boy”—and named his guitar Lucy (B.B.'s instrument was named Lucille). B.B., however, stated that Albert was a friend but not a relative, and he once remarked, “My name was King before I was famous.” According to King, his father left the family when Albert was five, and when he was eight he moved with his mother, Mary Blevins, and two sisters to an area near Forrest City, Arkansas. He said his family had also lived in Arcola, Mississippi, for a time. He made his first guitar out of a cigar box, a piece"
"B.B. King Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists. King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and is considered one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, earning the nickname ""The King of the Blues"", and is considered one of the ""Three Kings of the Blues Guitar"" (along with Albert and"
"Lucille (guitar) Lucille is the name B.B. King gave to his guitars. They were usually black Gibson guitars similar to the ES-345-355. In the winter of 1949, King played at a dance hall in Twist, Arkansas. The hall was heated by a barrel half-filled with burning kerosene set in the middle of the dance floor, a fairly common practice at the time. During a performance, two men began to fight, knocking over the barrel and sending the burning fuel across the floor. The hall burst into flames and was evacuated. Once outside however, King realized that he had left his"
"1953, where he recorded his first single (""Bad Luck Blues"" backed with ""Be On Your Merry Way""), for Parrot Records. The record sold a few copies in the Chicago area, but made no significant impact and Parrot did not request any followup records or sign King to a long-term contract (the label in any case went bankrupt a few years later). He moved to Brooklyn, Illinois, just across the river from St. Louis, in 1956, and formed a new band. During this period, he settled on using the Flying V as his primary guitar. He resumed recording in 1959 with"
"went back to retrieve his guitar. He said he later found out that the two men were fighting over a woman named Lucille. He named the guitar Lucille, as a reminder not to fight over women or run into any more burning buildings. Following his first ""Billboard"" Rhythm and Blues charted number one, ""3 O'Clock Blues"" (February 1952), B.B. King became one of the most important names in R&B music in the 1950s, amassing an impressive list of hits including ""You Know I Love You"", ""Woke Up This Morning"", ""Please Love Me"", ""When My Heart Beats like a Hammer"", ""Whole"
"at the B.B. King Museum. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy was awarded, for music released in the previous year. Other awards B.B. King Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists. King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and is considered one of the most influential blues musicians of all time,"
"years old, his mother and his uncle began teaching him to play the guitar. In autumn 1949, he and his family moved from Dallas to the South Side of Chicago. In 1952 King started working in a steel mill. In the same year he married another Texas native, Jessie Burnett. They had seven children. Almost as soon as he had moved to Chicago, King started sneaking into South Side nightclubs, where he heard blues performed by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, T-Bone Walker, Elmore James, and Sonny Boy Williamson. King formed his first band, the Every Hour Blues Boys, with the"
"guitar inside so he went back into the burning building to retrieve his beloved $30 Gibson guitar. King learned the next day that the two men that started the fire had been fighting over a woman who worked at the hall named Lucille. King did not know Lucille but named that guitar, and every guitar he subsequently owned, Lucille, as a reminder never again to do something as stupid as run into a burning building or fight over a woman. B.B. King wrote a song called ""Lucille"" in which he talks about his guitar and how it got its name."
"of the stolen status of the guitar. This Lucille was returned to King in late November 2009. Lucille (guitar) Lucille is the name B.B. King gave to his guitars. They were usually black Gibson guitars similar to the ES-345-355. In the winter of 1949, King played at a dance hall in Twist, Arkansas. The hall was heated by a barrel half-filled with burning kerosene set in the middle of the dance floor, a fairly common practice at the time. During a performance, two men began to fight, knocking over the barrel and sending the burning fuel across the floor. The"
"church at an early age. In his youth he sang gospel music, but he took the advice of a friend to switch to blues to make a better living. King started to play the guitar at the age of 15. Soon he started entering talent contests at local clubs, including the Dew Drop Inn. At one such club he met his idol, Guitar Slim. King started imitating Slim, and his presence had a big impact on his musical direction. In 1954, Slim was injured in an automobile accident (right around the time he had the number 1 R&B hit ""The"
"the guitar, and the boys would sometimes fight over it, until Duane wrecked the motorbike and traded it for a Silvertone of his own. His mother eventually bought Duane a Gibson Les Paul Junior. It was also in Nashville that the boys became musically inspired by a rhythm and blues concert where they saw blues guitar legend B. B. King perform. Duane told Gregg, ""We got to get into this."" Duane learned to play very quickly and soon became the better guitarist of the two. The brothers started playing publicly in 1961, joining or forming a number of local groups."
"and virtuoso guitar technique earned him the eponymous title ""king of the blues"". King introduced a sophisticated style of guitar soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists. In contrast to the Chicago style, King's band used strong brass support from a saxophone, trumpet, and trombone, instead of using slide guitar or harp. Tennessee-born Bobby ""Blue"" Bland, like B. B. King, also straddled the blues and R&B genres. During this period, Freddie King and Albert King often played with rock and soul musicians (Eric Clapton and Booker T & the MGs) and"
"Albert King Albert Nelson (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known by his stage name Albert King, was an American blues guitarist and singer whose playing influenced many other blues guitarists. He is perhaps best known for the popular and influential album ""Born Under a Bad Sign"" (1967) and its title track. He was known as ""The Velvet Bulldozer"" because of his smooth singing and large size—he stood taller than average, with sources reporting or , and weighed —and also because he drove a bulldozer in one of his day jobs early in his career. King was posthumously inducted"
"popular performers appeared, including slide guitarist and gospel singer Blind Willie Johnson. Future bluesmen, such as, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lil' Son Jackson, and T-Bone Walker were influenced by these developments. T-Bone Walker relocated to Los Angeles to record his most influential work in the 1940s. His swing-influenced backing and lead guitar sound became an influential part of the electric blues. It was T-Bone Walker, B.B. King once said, who “really started me to want to play the blues. I can still hear T-Bone in my mind today, from that first record I heard, ‘Stormy Monday.’ He was the first electric guitar"
"2012, it was announced that King would be posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. At the induction ceremony, Gary Clark Jr. performed King's ""Oh, Pretty Woman"" and was then joined by John Mayer and Booker T. Jones to perform King's ""Born Under a Bad Sign"". King has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. King's first instrument was a diddley bow. Next, he built himself a cigar box guitar, and eventually he bought a Guild acoustic guitar. The instrument he is usually associated with is a 1958 Gibson Flying V. In 1974"
"a self-taught guitarist who learned to play by watching Chicago’s blues legends. His guitar playing has been described as “B.B. King played through Jimi Hendrix (with a touch of Andy Gill).” Tumatoe’s songs are noted for their humor, something he explains as, ""There are two elements of the blues. There's the general intensity of the music…and an element of humor, some twist in the lyrics. It's like a comedian turning something sad into something funny."" Tumatoe’s primary guitar is a 1957 Gibson Les Paul Jr. named “Albert,” an homage to Albert King, a blues legend with whom Tumatoe has performed."
"Peter Green, Mick Taylor and Jeff Beck, and the emergence of American guitarists such as Johnny Winter, Mike Bloomfield, and Leslie West, Wolfe began to develop his own skills as a guitarist. At thirteen, he purchased his first guitar, a Dakota red Fender Mustang, and began learning the fundamentals of playing a guitar. Two key components to his apprenticeship were attending numerous concerts and listening to records. From these experiences, Wolfe's interests expanded to include the works of American blues guitarists such as B.B. King, Freddy King, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy, and Albert King. Wolfe found similar inspiration"
"Missouri, he briefly played drums for Jimmy Reed's band and on several of Reed's early recordings. He was influenced by the blues musicians Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lonnie Johnson. The electric guitar became his signature instrument, his preference being a Gibson Flying V, which he named Lucy. King earned his nickname ""The Velvet Bulldozer"" during this period, as he drove a bulldozer and worked as a mechanic to make a living. His smooth vocal style was influenced by R&B pop balladeers, such as the Mills Brothers. King moved to Gary, Indiana, in the early 1950s and then to Chicago in"
"days, in the late 1950s, when his career was beginning to take off. He kept the name secret for a while, for some reason, and then revealed it as Lucy; Stax played up the revelation by releasing the single ""I Love Lucy"", which became a hit in 1968. King played a second Flying V, a 1966 model, after his 1958 model was stolen. Reportedly this one was given to him by Gibson; this is the guitar he used to record ""Born Under a Bad Sign"". The 1958 V was recovered and it was retired in 1974, to make way for"
"B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Little Milton, John Mayall, Marcia Ball, Delbert McClinton, Taj Mahal, Leon Russell, and Edgar Winter. Les Paul once commented about Wilson, ""this guy plays some great blues!"" Wilson was born in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Wilson's family relocated to Keansburg, New Jersey, when Roger was one year old, before the town was badly damaged in September 1960 by Hurricane Donna. He attended his first guitar lesson in January 1963, at age nine. Later on, Wilson started taking trumpet lessons in order to join his elementary school marching band, although he would have preferred to play"
"Calvin on guitar, Tuff Green on bass, Ben Branch and future Hi Records star Willie Mitchell. The group was the house band at the now famous Plantation Inn Club in West Memphis, Arkansas, from 1947 to 1951, and recorded as B. B. King's band on his first recordings in 1949, as well as the Sun Records sessions in 1950. They left West Memphis in 1951 to tour with Jackie Brenston as the ""Delta Cats"" in support of the record ""Rocket 88"", recorded by Sam Phillips and considered by many to be the first ever rock & roll record (it was"
"age of nine after his father bought him his first kit for £10) and learning guitar from the age of eleven. In 1974, when he was fifteen, King met his future Level 42 bandmate Phil Gould, who remembers that the young King ""came and sat in with the band that I formed, at one of the gigs we were doing. He brought his kit down and blew me off, blew me off the stage because he was so much faster than me."" Gould also remembers the young King as being a budding multi-instrumentalist, a ""really good guitarist"" who would ""play"
"Angel"" for his first album ""Singin' the Blues"". Both versions prominently feature B.B. King's guitar work, with his note-bends ""sounding almost like a lap steel in places."" After B.B. King's success, many blues and other artists recorded their versions of ""Sweet Little Angel"". Robert Nighthawk's ""Black Angel Blues"" was inducted in 2007 into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame ""Classics of Blues Recordings"" category and B.B. King's ""Sweet Little Angel"" is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of ""500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll"". Black Angel Blues ""Black Angel Blues"", also known as ""Sweet Black"
"and Varitone tone filter circuitry. When fitted with the optional stereo wiring and Varitone, the model was known as the ES-355TD-SV. The best-known user of this guitar is probably B.B. King, whose trademark guitar, Lucille, was the basis for a 1981 signature model. It has the optional stereo wiring and Varitone circuitry as standard. It differs from the ES-355 by having a maple neck instead of mahogany, the name ""Lucille"" on the headstock, and the lack of an F-hole on its top. The EB-2 was first produced in 1958 as the bass version of the ES-335. Having the same body"
"The local minister performed with a Sears Roebuck Silvertone guitar during services. The minister taught King his first three chords. It seems that at the age of 12 he purchased his first guitar for $15.00, although another source indicates he was given his first guitar by Bukka White, his mother's first cousin (King's grandmother and White's mother were sisters). In November 1941, ""King Biscuit Time"" first aired, broadcasting on KFFA in Helena, Arkansas. It was a radio show featuring the Mississippi Delta blues. King listened to it while on break at a plantation. A self-taught guitarist, he then wanted to"
"he began playing B.C. Rich guitars, notably a Rich Bich model he bought off his bandmate Kerry King and subsequently applied various graphics to. His first Bich had a 3x3 headstock, chrome hardware (including the Kahler Pro bridge) and two DiMarzio Super Distortion pickups. He and King can both also be seen with a second set of B.C. Rich's around 1986-1987, which had 6-in-line headstocks, black hardware and DiMarzio pickups. He also used a B.C. Rich Ironbird model more rarely. From 1987, he was seen using a custom made B.C. Rich Gunslinger with similar specs as his '86-'87 era Bich,"
"Saunders King Saunders Samuel King (March 13, 1909 – August 31, 2000) was an American R&B and blues guitarist and singer. Saunders King was born in Staples, Louisiana, in Caddo Parish. He was the son of a preacher, and sang in his father's church while growing up in Houston, Texas, and then Oakland, California. As a youngster he learned to play piano, banjo and ukulele, but did not pick up guitar until 1938. At the end of the 1930s he sang with the Southern Harmony Four on NBC radio, and decided to begin playing blues music; he released the tune"
"Blueshawk, on which it was based. In 2005, for B.B. King's 80th birthday, Gibson made a special run of 80 Gibson Lucilles, referred to as the ""80th Birthday Lucille"". They presented the first prototype, which was engraved by Baron Technology, Inc, with design work by Scott Jeffrey, to King as a birthday present. King used the guitar as his main guitar until the summer of 2009, when it was stolen. On September 10, 2009, Eric Dahl unknowingly purchased the stolen instrument from a pawn shop in Las Vegas, and was contacted by a Gibson Artist Relations representative, who informed Dahl"
"King met, and thereafter periodically teamed up with, electric blues guitarist Smokin' Joe Kubek, starting in 1989. King was exposed to gospel music at an early age, but leaned more towards the blues and (especially) jazz, which he listened to on the radio while growing up. He started playing blues covers when still in high school, but continued mostly playing with jazz oriented bands afterward—until he met Kubek. While the rock-influenced Kubek played in an aggressive style, King had been heavily jazz-influenced and embraced a more relaxed playing style. They got along well, however, and two repeatedly partnered up after"
"Little Freddie King Little Freddie King (born Fread Eugene Martin, July 19, 1940) is an American Delta blues guitarist. His style is based on that of Freddie King, but his approach to country blues is original. King, a cousin of Lightnin' Hopkins, was born in McComb, Mississippi, and learned to play the guitar from his father. In 1954, at the age of 14, he moved to New Orleans. He performed in juke joints with his friends Babe Stovall, Slim Harpo, and Champion Jack Dupree, playing both acoustic and electric guitar. He recorded the first electric blues album in New Orleans"
"Freddie King Freddie King (September 3, 1934 – December 28, 1976) was an American blues guitarist and singer. He has been described as one of the ""Three Kings"" of electric blues guitar, along with Albert King and B.B. King. He was an influential guitarist with hits for Federal Records in the early 1960s. His soulful and powerful voice and distinctive guitar style inspired countless musicians, particularly guitarists (Eric Clapton is a notable example). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. King based his guitar style on Texas blues and Chicago blues influences. His best-known"
"was just 16 at the time, along with Hendrix' father Al Hendrix. Davis let Jimi play his guitar and gave him some lessons, which was the first time that Hendrix had played an electric guitar. Inspired by Davis' onstage antics and style, Hendrix soon began adopting the stage act that he became known for, including playing his guitar with his teeth, and playing behind his back. Davis remained friends with both Jimi and Al Hendrix throughout their lifetimes. In 1959, Davis also met blues guitarist B.B. King, while they were both performing in Atlanta, Georgia, and they remained close friends"