When you’re on the road to improving with your lead guitar skills ... to the second shape for a very typical Albert King-style ending. It’s hard to justify making any blues lick list without ...

B.B. King left behind the racism of rural Mississippi to become the King Of The Blues. This is his story, in his own words ...

There are those who believed that BB King wasn’t the world’s greatest guitar ... blues players, King based many of his phrases and licks on the minor pentatonic scale, which is a simple “box ...

The invention of the electric guitar in the 20 th century spawned a long list of great guitarists – B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, Eddie Van Halen and many more. Everyone ...

King enjoyed acclaim and considerable ... Musicians even named a section of the guitar's neck after their blues idol, dubbing it the "B.B. box." Usually located from the 10th to 12th frets ...

Bends, embellishments, arpeggios and more – from Charlie Christian to BB King and George Benson, how to unlock the genius of ...

Born on the same Mississippi cotton plantation as B.B. King, Albert Nelson taught himself to play on a cigar-box ... the Blues Hall of Fame in 1988. Robert Lee McCollum fled Arkansas early, spending ...

the songbook they gave us," blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa says. "Freddie was more of a rock guitar player. Freddie always had a dry, immediate sound." While B.B. and Albert King are known for ...

But at the center of it all, quite literally, was B.B ... blues royalty. No matter. The respect and love felt for King was palpable, and he obliged his disciples with occasional hints of the ...

B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Albert King, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Robert Cray, Bobby Blue Bland King Biscuit was an important San Diego blues band ...