Eric Clapton had “Blackie” and “Brownie”; Willie Nelson has “Trigger”; Keith Richards, “Micawber.” But before all of them, B.B. King had “Lucille.” One thing that Lucille is not — unlike Blackie, ...
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 ...