Legendary blues guitarist, B.B. King, died in his home in Las Vegas at 9:40pm PST last night at the age of 89. Whether they know it or not, your favorite guitarist was influenced by B.B. King, because they’re favorite guitarist’s guitarist was influenced by B.B. King. King died leaving behind 43 albums, 15 Grammys (excluding his Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), a Kennedy Center Honor, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, honorary doctorates from Yale and Brown, and inductions to both the Blues Hall Of Fame and Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Legends never truly die, so we’ll see you and Lucille in the next phase, B.B. Also, Wikipedia is very informative.
