B.B King

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Left- BB King playing his guitar Lucille on stage/Right - Lee Ritenour performs at Blue Note on November 23, 2023 in Milan, Italy

“The strings were heavy as hell”: Lee Ritenour on the time he played B.B. King’s prized guitar Lucille

By Janelle Borg published

Lee Ritenour recalls the moment B.B. King spontaneously called him on stage – and he ended up playing the King’s Gibson

Guitarists
BB King performs on stage at Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, New Jersey, United States, January 2 1997

B.B. King gifted one of his Lucille guitars to the Pope – it’s now up for auction

By Janelle Borg published

After belonging to B.B. King and Pope John Paul II’s Vatican collection, the guitar is expected to fetch more than $80,000 at auction

Guitars
Emily Wolfe Epiphone Lucille

New Epiphone BB King Lucille model confirmed by Emily Wolfe during livestream performance

By Matt Owen published

Wolfe also took her new Sheraton Stealth Signature semi-hollow for a spin during the Epiphone: For Every Stage event

Electric Guitars
B.B. King performs at the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Hague, Netherlands on 9th July 1993

The Wire’s Wendell Pierce confirmed to play B.B. King in The Thrill Is On film

By Richard Bienstock published

“I will honor him and his creative genius,” Pierce wrote on Twitter

Artists