B.B. King News

KEWASKUM - A.J. Croce will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, in the Kewaskum Theatre at Kewaskum High School in the third annual Brick by Brick fundraising concert.

A summer full of concerts and workshops at the Augusta Heritage Center gets under way Monday at Davis and Elkins College.

Blues is a musical genre. 'The blues' has always meant something different; a kind of club that people - mostly men - of a certain generation joined.The Rolling Stones and Clapton came out of the early-Sixties boom, the former leaving the blues behind for rock stardom.

I'm originally from Chicago . When you're in Chicago and in the mood for blues or jazz, you'll be sure to find it.

Well before the last great bluesman graces the stage at the CIA the fans are already feverishly photographing BB Kinga s famous blues partner - his guitar Lucille.

Blues legend B.B. King's sister, Cora King, died Monday in Los Angeles. She lived in Gardena, Calif., and was 70.

Gibson Guitar, the world's premier musical instrument maker and leader in music technology, is pleased to announce its partnership with the Montreux Jazz Festival.

If your musical tastes lean towards the blues and vintage R&B, then the Kinston library is the place to be this Sunday.

The Donald Underwood Thompson Band will have Wilsonians singing the blues Wednesday.

DVD Review: B.B. King Live at Montreux 1993 Jun 23, 2009 3:32 PM, By Blair Jackson B.B. King was 68 when this wonderful show was recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

In 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., killing four girls.

A Jersey cop is accusing the former head of Motown Records of beating him and stealing his badge at a popular blues club in Times Square.

The Blues Providers are all about the blues. Original Chicago, classic, swing, big band and West-Coast Jump a ' you name it, they'll play it.

Welcome to another edition of Friday Bookblogging, in which we round up news about books by, about, or inspired by Jane Austen and her work.

Local blues favorite Chris Kleeman will display his stinging slide guitar work during the Jackson Gore Outdoor Music Series at 6 p.m. Friday.

Hundreds of mourners honored Chicago blues icon Koko Taylor at her funeral Friday by singing her signature song "Wang Dang Doodle" and remembering why she was known as the "Queen of the Blues." A diverse crowd of blues fans and musicians - young and old, black and white - got to their feet and sang at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition headquarters on ...

An Elkhorn man reported the theft of an autographed CD cover art proof for the BB King disk a oeRiding With The King.a The 26-year-old man told Omaha Police the autographed art of the Blues Musician was stolen from a desktop in the cubicle of a common work are at Applied Underwriters at 108th and Old Mill Road between May 27th and June 4th.

Gibson Guitar, the world's premier musical instrument manufacturer and leader in music technology, announced its sponsorship of the 2009 Chicago Blues Festival.

THIS Sunday's Blues session at the Hope Tavern at Holton le Moor brings the return of one of the busiest and popular bands on the Northern Blues circuit.

BMAs Reach New Heights on 30th Anniversary When Sirius-XM Satellite Radio host Bill Wax and Blues Foundation Executive Director Jay Sieleman walked into the Flying Saucer bar a block from Beale Street the day after the Blues Music Awards, the Memphis club welcomed them with a spontaneous and completely unplanned round of applause.