Known by many as the "King Of The Blues", B.B. King
is well known for his quality and tone percise string 
bends and other guitar techniques that include his 
famous "shake" vibrato guitar technique. Between 1951 
and 1985, B.B. King performed an amazing 74 entries on 
Billboard's R&B charts. his 1970 smash "The Thrill Is 
Gone" became a major success tha led to appearances on 
The Ed Sullivan Show and American Bandstand.

Much of Kings Mississippi Delta influences were based 
upon country and gospel music styles along with blues 
greats T-Bone Walker and Lonnie Johnson and jazz greats 
Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. In 1946, B.B. 
King left for Memphis to find his cousin, country blues 
guitarist Bukka White. For ten months, White taught B.B. 
the keys to playing blues guitar.
 
Upon his stay in Memphis, King was soon broadcasting his 
music live via Memphis radio station WDIA.

1949 was a major breakthrough year for King. He cut his 
first four tracks for Jim Bulleit's Bullet Records 
(including a number entitled "Miss Martha King" after his 
wife), then signed a contract with the Bihari Brothers' 
Los Angeles-based RPM Records.It was during this era that 
King first named his beloved guitar "Lucille." The story 
told is that while he was playing a joint in a little 
Arkansas town called Twist, a fight broke out between two 
jealous men over a lady during the course of which they 
knocked over a kerosene-filled garbage pail that was 
heating the place, setting the room ablaze. In a panic to 
escape the flames, King left his guitar inside. He then 
ran back in to retrieve it, dodging the flames and nearly 
losing his life. When the smoke had cleared, King discoved 
that the lady who had inspired the fight to brake out was 
named Lucille.


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