CHICAGO (CBS)-- B.B. King's guitars are among the most famous musical instruments in the world – known to throngs by the names he gave them, "Lucille." A guitar by that name that King played later in ...

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It all began when Eric Dahl purchased a Gibson guitar at a Las Vegas pawnshop in 2009. Dahl paid about $2,200 for the B.B. King Lucille model and later made an exciting discovery: It was the original ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BB King performs on stage at Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, New Jersey, United States, January 2 1997. In 1997, B.B. King gifted ...

In 1980, Gibson introduced its first B.B. King signature guitar, a black ES-355 Thinline Dual Pickup Stereo Varitone model with a TP-6 fine-tuner tailpiece and “Lucille” spelled out in script on the ...

See and hear B.B. King in performance while musicians share the same response to the King of the Blues’ artistry: they know it’s B.B. King playing by hearing just one note of his guitar. This film ...

Check out any guitarist at a nightclub, arena or recording studio, and chances are the sound you hear is being colored by an array of effects pedals that add distortion, echo, phase-shifting, wah-wah ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — 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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...