JACKSON, Miss. — A guitar given to B.B. King for his 80th birthday has sold for $280,000 at an auction of items from the blues legend's estate. Julien's Auctions says King often used the black Gibson ...

Billy Gibbons may be one of the coolest cats ever to sling a Gibson Les Paul, but it took B.B. King playing his guitar to spark a string-gauge shake-up that changed the way he played forever.

A guitar given to B.B. King for his 80th birthday has sold for $280,000 at an auction of items from the blues legend's estate. Julien's Auctions says King often used the black Gibson ES-345 prototype ...

TWIST, AR - The King of Blues is well known for his playing style and multiple Grammy's, but B.B. King also had a close connection to a Region 8 town. King is known for naming all of his guitars ...

A guitar once owned by B.B. King and photographs of Marilyn Monroe – along with other items from history and pop culture – are going up for auction next month. The "Legends & Treasures" auction, held ...

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 ...

The late bluesman affectionately gave all his Gibson guitars the name. A selection of BB King’s famous ‘Lucille’ guitars will go under the hammer (Yui Mok/PA) A selection of BB King’s famous “Lucille” ...

BB King began performing in the 1930s, on the street corners of his hometown Itta Bena, Mississippi. And ever since his big break, playing on a radio show in Memphis in 1948, he has maintained his ...