When B.B. King passed away in 2015 at the age of 89, he left behind a challenge. “Do what you can to keep the blues alive,” he often told those who crossed his path. Today, on what would have been ...

One of the most famous and long-running blues festivals in the world returns to its roots for an amazing weekend like no other. The one-and-only King Biscuit Blues Festival returns to its iconic stage ...

SIOUX CITY -- For many generations of music lovers, B.B. King was never simply "The King of the Blues." Instead, Riley B. King, the Itta Bena, Mississippi-born son of sharecroppers, was often the only ...

He was born in Berclair, Mississippi, with the name Riley B. King, a last name that would — though he wouldn't know it as a small child — point to the great things he would do. Riley was born on a ...

B.B. King, the King of the Blues, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16. Most Americans know his name, his primacy among blues legends, and the singular identity of his beloved hollow-body Gibson guitar ...

As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region’s famous native son B.B. King croons “Why I Sing the Blues” on the radio. Music that sprung from ...

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Daniel de Visé began contemplating a biography of B.B. King — one of the most iconic figures in American music — he was shocked at what he discovered.